samir:

I laughed out loud on reading your post. Many years back, a good friend was an SAC B-52 command pilot. He told me about "survival" trips (in the desert)to eat snake. My friend had an absolute revulsion about eating snake -and he survived the tests and became eventually an SAC command pilot. I was with him then (yeah, I know how you'll eat anything if you're hungry - but the stomach (including mine and his) does stop at a point! You reached your stopping point at about the same time as me!

On my first safari, to South Africa with two of my sons, the PH insisted the proper ceremony after taking the initial animal was to "blood" the hunter (smear the animal's blood on your face) and then the hunter had to eat a small piece of the animal's liver--raw.

In light of the comments above, that ritual, while certainly romantic-sounding, might not have been too wise from a health standpoint.

Then, when my youngest son and I went to Zimbabwe so he could shoot Cape buffalo, another hunter in camp shot a lioness, and the camp staff cooked up sauteed lion medallions with onions as a sundowner hors d'œuvre--they were really tasty, similar to veal. But again, after some of the posts about the dangers of eating cat, I suppose we were lucky not to get sick.

Why is everything that's good bad for you?

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Just because they didn't get sick doesn't necessarily mean they haven't picked something up that could affect their health in later years.

A post tropical check up is always money well spent.

http://www.shakariconnection.c...alth-after-hunt.html