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In reply to the discussion: The difference between Guns and knives. And chainsaws. And baseball bats. [View all]Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)And it's not a health code violation around here, or else I wouldn't be able to buy it. The same store also sells ostrich, alligator, and all sorts of other meats. And if you're buying it in a store, you're not buying it because you can't afford regular food, you're buying it because you like it. It's more expensive in the stores than beef, pork, chicken.
The people who eat it to stretch their budget are hunting it themselves. And the stores around here that carry hunting gear also have large departments for food processing equipment, from slicers and sausage makers to smokers and food sealers. I don't hunt, as I said, but I do a lot of canning. I probably pull about seven or eight hundred dollars worth of black raspberry jam and jelly a year out of my backyard, for instance.