On 5/26/15 10:20 AM, philo wrote:
On 05/26/2015 09:14 AM, J Burns wrote:


During the great depression my father did trap pigeons to supplement the
family food supply. That was a hell of a long time ago.

I believe Diana Rigg used to eat pigeon in the 1950s and 1960s, before
Patrick Macnee got her a good job. She became a gourmet cook to make the
best of the situation.



With my dad, they gave him a dime to go to the store for a loaf of bread
but the price had been raised to 11 cents and he could not get it...he
came home crying.

His father and uncle had an egg-selling route and would not be home for
several more days and there was not another penny to be had anywhere.

I think that is when the pigeon trapping began.

In the UK, pigeons were trapped for sale at butcher shops.

During the mad cow epidemic, butcher shops in cities continued to sell
to those on low budgets, the organ meats that were supposed to carry the
disease. Nobody got sick.

Out in the countryside, where people ate only the approved cuts, there
were clusters near plants that produced organophosphate insecticides.

The cow epidemic happened after the UK government ordered farmers to
apply organophosphates to cattle, to stop a fly that damaged leather.
One farmer hired a lawyer and refused. The epidemic destroyed his
neighbors' cattle, but his were fine.

The government and the chemical industry weren't going to take the
blame, so they said it was an infectious disease. That lie meant
economic hardship for farmers in many nations.