As you might guess, farm-raised “game” isn’t much like wild game. However, I do know from a lot of experience that not everyone has a taste for “real” (wild) game, and I suppose that even farm-raised venison and such is a change for most people. :)

Personally, I love game (the real thing). Elk is superb meat. As is wild goose…nothing at all like domesticated goose. The positive thing I see in eating wild game is that first you have got to get it (as in, “first catch your rabbit”), and this isn’t just walking out of a supermarket with a plastic-wrapped package of anonymous factory-raised (ick!!!!) meat. Secondly the creature has at least lived a natural (though not necessarily an “easy”) life. And game is tasty, although probably an acquired taste especially if one are used to commercial bland meats. I am always amazed at people who don’t blink an eye at eating a fast-food burger and yet cringe to think of eating, say, a wild cottontail.

Hmm. Reminds me that I have a chunk of elk in my freezer that needs to be eaten.