#186890 - 10/30/09 03:14 AM
Re: "Confiscated for the common good"
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[quote=benjammin] but I suspect if the US govt wanted our food, they would more likely grab it long before we ever even see it. Likewise our water supplies. In fact, they'd probably have confiscated it long before we even knew it was gone.
I also agree with this with perhaps a caveat. Water rights are a big deal out west. In fact in many farming, ranching communities there is a water marshall, a non-government person who makes sure water usage among individual properties are followed. If anyone noticed water not being dispersed, rationed correctly, there would be a huge stink from the farmer to the marshall. That would be noticed.
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#186899 - 10/30/09 03:53 AM
Re: "Confiscated for the common good"
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good point. it would not be fair for someone to build a hoover dam on their property to control the water. just because the entire dam and the reservoir behind it was on their land would not make it right. or simply using ALL the water that passed through their land. it should apply to the aquifer as well... 
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#187262 - 11/03/09 05:00 AM
Re: "Confiscated for the common good"
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If you want to disappear of the net for a few weeks without anyone recording your purchases, your likes and dislikes, your movements or where you are within a few hundred metres then I would move to Cuba.
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And you think the Cuban government won't track you?
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#187559 - 11/05/09 03:13 PM
Re: "Confiscated for the common good"
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I know of folks who eat Bobcat as well, and they claim it is pretty good meat.
A word of caution, cook all cat meat (including feral house cats) to well done as they often contain trichinella. Cougars I hear are the most commonly infected. In fact, I would suggest cooking any carnivorous flesh to well done, just to be sure.
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#187612 - 11/05/09 10:21 PM
Re: "Confiscated for the common good"
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Trichinella can infect many animals: pigs, horses, foxes, wolves, bears, skunks, raccoons, rats and other small mammals). It's not that common in Felis catus, but thorough cooking is best for all meat. And that includes humans if things get really bad or the relatives need thinning.
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#187631 - 11/06/09 01:16 AM
Re: "Confiscated for the common good"
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Funny, that just reminded me of something. Anthropologist Carole Travis-Henikoff was on the radio the other day to talk about her book "Dinner with a Cannibal." It was pretty interesting. Here's a snippet from the transcript 
Ms. TRAVIS-HENIKOFF: And being a chef, I can tell you, that is a dry and stringy meat without that much flavor, OK? And the human body has far more fat on it, naturally. Even in a thin person, the breast are mostly fat and the buttocks are mostly fat. And we need fat. And so, a lot of cannibals, when they make those statements, I can't tell you what it would taste like, but I know what it looks like. And there is no reason on Earth that it wouldn't be good. We're only 1-3 percent different in genetics from chimpanzees. And in Africa today, a person will give up a whole year's wages for a carcass of a chimpanzee.
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#187729 - 11/06/09 10:26 PM
Re: "Confiscated for the common good"
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Actually, it was the Donner Party that crossed my mind as I was writing that.
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