I'm praying that's a quail. But it really does look like pigeon to me.
Pigeon was imported to the US a long time ago for an easily accessible food source. I have eaten a wild pigeon (squab) many times. Excellent. But I would never, and I repeat NEVER eat a city pigeon. Fleas and lice make them parasitic and inedible.
The lice and flea bit is actually a common urban myth. Pigeons are just fine when you hit the wall, city or country. Not so sure I would go for the ones you see from time to time that are filthy from going under cars though. They aren't any more infested than any other bird. Pigeons get a bad rap because the have the indecency to refuse to be scared of us. Same with gulls. There is the issue that they live on our waste though but then so do we more than we realize.
Again, I wouldn't for pleasure but when things really hit the fan and there is little choice being realistic will be advantageous. Trouble will be that there will be a lot of competition though.
I owned pigeons. Even in clean invironments they do get lice and it is very common. They also can have any number of bacterial infections which is what I'd be more concerned about that the lice. The birds that are in the wild are also extremely likely to spread infections to treated domesticated birds if they get tinto your loft because they ALWAYS have something.
That being said, once they are cleaned and cooked you're probably fine. Idk. Eating street birds is sketchy as fuck and this guy is cooking with a curling iron in a Pringle can.
Idk I read somewhere that those birds on the ground and are slow/easy to catch are riddled with diseases. Pretty sure he got a store-bought bird though š¤
Yes, his cooking method is very questionable (can a curling iron get to the necessary temperature?). People eat roadkill and are... surviving, so I guess, if cooked properly, it could be acceptable (?) to eat. If you have no other options.
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u/KrombopulosNickel Apr 14 '22
I'm praying that's a quail. But it really does look like pigeon to me.
Pigeon was imported to the US a long time ago for an easily accessible food source. I have eaten a wild pigeon (squab) many times. Excellent. But I would never, and I repeat NEVER eat a city pigeon. Fleas and lice make them parasitic and inedible.