[Pontiac]

Those backwoods boys will eat anything.

I doubt that these were backwoods boys. Any country boy of college age would know better than to eat a sick animal.

[76834]

From recent news it seems like the big boys dont have a problem with turning sick cows into hamburger.
Whats the difference?

[ladyrustic]

Yes, pretty darn stupid to taste a racoon that was acting funny...rabies is running rampant these days.

Slightly off topic but somehow pertinent, I just read that the USDA just passed a law (yesterday?) making it illegal to butcher for meat any cow that is unable to stand on its own. That's a law a little late in coming.

I can't believe I've been eating steaks from sick animals all these years... You pay $6 a pound for a steak you really hope it's prime beef- not the remains of some poor critter that was dying of some wasting disease...

[luvbach1]

Doubt if they ate it, as in "consumed" it.