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I have a piece of deer meat (venison) thawing in the fridge, and another chunk in the freezer. Also in the freezer is a piece of bison (buffalo) and a free-range chicken.

Emphatically yes, bambi tastes good. From the relatively small piece thawing in the fridge will come many bowls of venison stew with brown mushrooms, carrots, potato, onion, garlic, herbs from the garden, and a little beer.

Bison tastes good. To buy the meat, we drive over to the ranch where the buffalo roam on 1000 acres.

And free-range chicken tastes good. I can make the bird last us all week with roast chicken, then curry chicken, then chicken enchiladas, and finally a pot of soup made from the chicken broth. The bird is much more flavorful than its cage-raised counterpart and much less fatty because it had a chance to get some exercise.

After eating proper food for awhile, we found that we couldn't stand factory raised animal meat anymore. It tastes sort of plastic and it smells peculiar. I don't know what makes the factory raised animal taste and smell so unappetizing - the massive doses of antibiotics, the lack of exercise, the fact that the animal was up to its ankles in fecal matter, the poor diet, or some other reason.

I agree, just look at a cut of bison or venison side by side with beef and you really see what an insipid, fatty, pale creation is factory meat. Farmed salmon is another abomination, just like beef it has to be dyed red.

Hi cl zoomer,

Agreed. Something is very wrong anytime someone needs a tool like this to make something look like proper food:
www.smithandlowney.com/salmon/

But all is well here. I have a deer stew on the simmer.