A Modest Proposal.

Something is gonna have to give or we are gonna have massive desertification of elephant countries.

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Originally posted by Michael Robinson:
A Modest Proposal.

Yes, we are being Swift-boated...

A very large bull elephant is 10 tonnes. Average are more like 5 tonnes.

That is about 5000 broiler chicken grown in 37 days or average 2500 chicken grown in 37 days.

There is no way you can grow an elephant in 37 days at 1.7kg feed conversion maximum.

Poultry is becoming the easiest source of affordable protein in rural Africa among the poor.

Some NGOs are now selling 3 or 4 hens and a rooster from good breeding stock (disease resistant and able to forage) that produce 250 to 300 eggs a year per hen. The eggs can be hatched and the chicks grown for the pot. Each family can get 3 or 4 eggs a day.

Remote parts of Rwanda, Uganda etc. are experiencing this trend.

Elephant meat is not bad, but I don't think a lot of thought has gone into the modalities here.

10+ tons was the largest ever recorded elephant. You won't find any that size these days; a big one will be maybe 7.

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Originally posted by ijl:
Elephant meat is not bad, but I don't think a lot of thought has gone into the modalities here.

10+ tons was the largest ever recorded elephant. You won't find any that size these days; a big one will be maybe 7.

And of the 5-7 tons of carcass, maybe 50% might be utilized for food?

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Originally posted by fulvio:

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Originally posted by ijl:
Elephant meat is not bad, but I don't think a lot of thought has gone into the modalities here.

10+ tons was the largest ever recorded elephant. You won't find any that size these days; a big one will be maybe 7.

And of the 5-7 tons of carcass, maybe 50% might be utilized for food?

Not if oyu process into sausages

cartilage, offal and all but the "wet stain" on the ground will be consumed

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Not if you process into sausages

I suppose you're right but all that pulverized bone and skin is going to have serious reverse effects on your digestive system.

"Big Chief, no shit" comes to mind.

BaxterB, the swift boating allegations were true, witnessed by people who were there.

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Originally posted by 376 steyr:
BaxterB, the swift boating allegations were true, witnessed by people who were there.

Apparently only Michael Robinson and I paid attention in English class ...

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift