Distressed animals , does it effect the quality of meat?

[Opis]

Is it a wife's tale? In Canada we are told that European's hang their birds until they fall off at the neck? Then they are green and rotten and the meat is sweet apparantly? Yuck if it's true.

In UK alot do this to game birds they've shot, they reckon it makes the game birds/ meat more tender and flavoursome.

In my opinion it just tastes like disgusting rancid meat....... and it's absolutely fowl!

[canuckbid]

The owner of the locker and the USDA inspector were both about retirement age, and they spoke in glowing terms of the good ol' days, when men were men and beef hung on the rail until there was a faint coating of mold on the carcass. I believe they said the mold released enzymes that made me the meat more tender.

Did you mean back in the "good ole days" when men didn't live very long?

[pearlygirl555]

Did you mean back in the "good ole days" when men didn't live very long?

They lived long enough to tell me about letting meat hang until it was moldy, so the ones who survived must have been hearty old b*stards!

[SalusLibrorum]

Yes, stress can have a pronounced effect on the quality of meat, and sensible farmers and slaughtermen go out of their way to avoid it because it costs them money.

Pigs are especially susceptible to being frightened, not surprisingly as they're a lot brighter than other animals.

[SalusLibrorum]

They lived long enough to tell me about letting meat hang until it was moldy, so the ones who survived must have been hearty old b*stards!

My mother was a maid "in service" in the 1930s, and she told me tales of the cook bashing the maggots with a knife that had crawled out of the pheasants. They would hang them till they went green and maggotty. It sounds revolting. We had a couple of high pheasants one year, when I was a child and my mother thought we'd try it, I shall never forget that awful taste, rotten meat is disgusting, we never ate rotten game again.

[pearlygirl555]

I wonder why people deliberately ate rotted meat? Came across examples of this practice worldwide during my years as an anthropology major, but can't recall there being any advantage to it. For example, did the ingestion of rotted meat strengthen the immune systems of those who were able to stand it?

[Teddyrose54]

In Korea, they believe it has an effect, that's why they beat the "yellow dogs" they eat (because they believe it improves their libido not for food), to death, in front off all the other dogs, to increase their fear & stress, & the adrenolin & other chemicals caused by this.

I so hope that is not true~I hate to see any animal suffer.

[moonwitch]

I so hope that is not true~I hate to see any animal suffer.

Fraid so

http://www.aapn.org/xichang.html

(horrific pictures - I couldn't get through all of them)

[centre7]

It is true, just as Gothicina says.

[moonwitch]

""Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity." (Shaw)
"The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom." (J. Mill)"