Re: If all farm animals dissappeared

On 2007-10-23, ****VER ME TIMBERS <****ver@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> expressed:
>> Day Brown <daybrown@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> All the PR in the records would give you the idea it was cattle or
>> deer, but the record shows its mostly rabbit. So much for the mighty
>> hunter mentality.
>
> Hmmmmmm.... Easier for a hunter or poacher to kill a rabbit and hide it 
> from view till if met the stewpot and I wouldn't be surprised if a lot 
> of that cooking was done in the middle of the nite when the baron, 
> landowner, or king wasn't around snooping.

A cow makes a lot of stewpots. They couldn't keep the meat very long, so
they killed the cow to get a lot of people through the winter.

> Correct me if I am wrong but in those days only royalty, landowners, 
> etc., could own, kill, and eat meat animals like cows, elk, etc.
>
> Remember that first scene in the Errol Flynn Robin Hood movie where the 
> serf kills a deer and Sir Guy of whoever comes by to arrest him for 
> killing the kings deer.

Maybe that is not stricktly historical correct...

Greetings,
	Frank