/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Because meat is expensive, and anything outside the triumvirate of beef/chicken/pork is even worse. (Lamb and other domesticated animals.)

Deer, elk, moose, etc are considered game animals, and are only hunt-able within certain timeframes, and you have to draw a tag for them. Sometimes you just get cucked and never get a tag. (You also have to be qualified to get said tag.) In some places, you don't want to hunt for these animals, too, as a great many of them have Chronic Wasting Disease, which is a spongiform encephalopathy, which while probably not transmissible to humans, it's not advised to consume certain bits of the animal. Better to just avoid it entirely, really.

As for pigeons, they carry a ridiculous amount of diseases that I'd prefer to pass on, thanks.