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[Claude William Genest <genest@pivot.net>]

Funny you should write that about eating deer- I literally am just  
returning from one fo the best meals I've had in a long time venison  
cooked with blueberries - I wonder why deer meat is not more readily  
available and "farmed" like say, buffalo ?


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On Apr 19, 2006, at 8:49 PM, Bart Anderson wrote:

> Toby wrote:
> If there's anyone out there who has had good, long-term luck with  
> any of the
> gentler methods, particularly in the West where the mule deer are  
> even more
> aggressive than the eastern ones, I would love to hear of it.
>
> I'm not a hunter and we don't have deer in the middle of Silicon  
> Valley, but
> I wonder... is it legit to shoot the deer who come onto your  
> property? I
> know that mule deer tend to over-populate in California.  Probably  
> the food
> value of the deer would be greater than the vegetables one is  
> growning.
>
> Our problem is snails and (in some areas) gophers.  I think Brock  
> Dolman
> suggested eating gophers, and I know our snails are edible -- in fact
> gourmet items.
>
> Eating pests would seem to be a direct way to solve the problem.
>
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