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Originally Posted by Trip_Wire
We have problems with Elk here in Washington State. I'm not sure I agree with this Mayor. What do you guy's think?[.
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Got mixed feelings about this. The obvious one is that folks have killed off the predators and have screwed with mother nature's balance in the wild that population dynamics are now a function of human manipulation. So, if the herd is stripping its own food supply and dropping from disease it probably needs to be culled. Howumsoever when you get the folks out there hunting for meat for the general population and not for sport or family you are going to run into a problem with quality control and health for the human consumers. I have to laugh (Hah) remembering when we came across a water buffalo troop being used to transport supplies for the NVA. We wacked the bad guys and the buffalo and the yards went nuts just knowing that water buffalo was going to be on the menu that night. Of course they did their little water buffalo ceremony and brought me the first chunk of liver. In a mixture of French and English he told me that it was good meat because it did not have any spots on it. So makes me sort of wonder how many of those that might be hired to bring in the meat are going to check to see if there are "any spots" before they collect their pay check.
