Can You Eat Vultures and is it Secure?

We’ve lately seen some debate about whether or not or not it’s suitable for eating vultures in a survival state of affairs. Vultures are referred to as the rubbish disposals of the world. Nonetheless, it’s human nature that ravenous folks would possibly do determined issues to outlive.  

Let’s face it! When you’re even considering the thought of consuming vulture meat, it’s secure to imagine you’re residing in determined occasions. 

Let’s get proper to it—whilst you in all probability might eat vulture meat, if in any respect potential, you in all probability ought to not. 

The Vulture’s Digestive System

Vultures have superior digestive programs during which their stomachs comprise a robust toxic acid that kills harmful illnesses:

• Anthrax
• Botulism
• Cholera
• Rabies

At a pH stage of 1.0, a vulture’s abdomen acid is corrosive sufficient to digest bones. 

Why You Shouldn’t Eat Vulture Meat

Putrid carrion accommodates dangerous decomposing micro organism that launch poisonous chemical compounds into the our bodies of those scavengers. These poisonous chemical compounds produced by decaying flesh leech into vulture meat, making it smelly, unpalatable, and inedible. 

Meals Poisoning

Whereas there’s no proof to recommend that consuming vulture meat outright kills you, there’s a lot to recommend that it’s poisonous sufficient to make you sick. Vultures are generally known as scavengers of demise as a result of they eat all issues useless. 

Though unproven, there are lots of claims that meals poisoning may end up from consuming vulture meat. One might argue that in a TEOTWAWKI state of affairs, these dangers could be acceptable when the choice is hunger.  

However, even the slightest probability of poisoning your self doesn’t make a lot sense except there’s simply completely no different various, notably when you think about there’s doubtless little probability of medical therapy in such a state of affairs.

Parasitic Infections

In historical cultures (and even some fashionable ones), scavengers that ate up useless organisms had been thought of unclean and forbidden meals, and that is doubtless for good, sanitary causes. It’s no secret that putrid carrion accommodates an array of harmful micro organism and parasites. 

Whereas a Western eating regimen has loads of “unclean” meats on the menu, these meats are additionally recognized to hold dangerous illnesses. Take pork, for instance, that carries the trichinella roundworm. 

Trichinosis was rather more frequent earlier than the twentieth century, and its signs had been recognized to final for months:

• Aching joints
• Diarrhea
• Headache 
• Excessive fever and chills
• Muscle ache and tenderness
• Nausea and vomiting
• Extreme fatigue
• Abdomen ache
• Swelling of eyes and face

It took authorities laws that prohibited feeding uncooked meat rubbish to pigs, in addition to public consciousness, to in the end cut back trichinosis circumstances annually.

As a result of vultures additionally thrive on “uncooked meat rubbish,” deductive reasoning concludes the identical dangers are fairly believable. Even when the possibilities are slim, is it well worth the threat?

Lethal Pathogens

Consuming any scavenger that thrives on decaying flesh, bones, and feces simply doesn’t look like a good suggestion. Consuming vulture meat locations you in danger for a lot of lethal pathogens. 

In the end, solely you’ll be able to assess whether or not the reward outweighs the chance, however think about the results. Very similar to bats, it’s well-known that vultures carry an abundance of illnesses:

• Avian influenza
• Encephalitis
• Histoplasmosis
• Meningitis
• Salmonella
• Toxoplasmosis

As such, it’s in all probability greatest to keep away from these animals altogether. 

Legislation

Clearly, in a worst-case state of affairs, the legislation would have little affect on survival, however for the sake of “don’t do this at house,” it’s best to know that the Migratory Hen Treaty Act of 1918 protects each vultures and their eggs. 

That is doubtless the rationale you don’t discover a lot data relating to the subject. Committing the crime is sort of pricey, to the tune of $100,000.  

Advantages to the Ecosystem

Regardless of their detestable look, vultures are nice for the ecosystem as a result of they do feed on useless carcasses. Vultures are the very mechanism that stops illness from spreading. 

From a survival perspective, throughout TEOTWAWKI, it could be rather more advantageous to let the vultures stay. We will already see the affect in geographic areas the place these birds are on the verge of extinction. With out them, illness undoubtedly runs rampant.   

Does Any Tradition Eat Vulture Meat?

There are a lot of claims that some cultures, notably in growing international locations, do eat vulture meat. In reality, it’s offered far and broad all through bushmeat markets. 

Nonetheless, in most conditions, the vulture is used for non secular functions whereby they aren’t ingested however as an alternative utilized in mystical rituals. 

In South Africa, for instance, they use the vulture’s mind combined with glycerine and gunpowder. Non secular leaders mild this combination on hearth, and folks inhale the smoke or snort the ash to set off a kind of religious clairvoyance. 

In different phrases, it’s used extra like a drug than an edible meals. 

In different elements of the world, like Nigeria, distributors reportedly promote vulture meat beneath the guise of rooster to unsuspecting patrons. Sadly, there’s no data relating to the result of consuming mentioned meat.

Culturally, nonetheless, most Nigerians consider that killing vultures is taboo. Moreover, bushmeat is notoriously recognized for spreading zoonotic illnesses: 

• Cholera
• Ebola virus
• Influenza
• Leprosy
• Measles
• Smallpox
• Syphilis
• Tuberculosis

Can You Eat Vulture Eggs?

There are some claims that it’s suitable for eating vulture eggs and even some so-called proof. Though, there’s no means of figuring out for sure the egg in that video is really a vulture egg.  

Moreover, as a result of each vultures and their eggs are protected, I discover it considerably suspicious that somebody could be so courageous as to air their crimes on YouTube. However then once more, in in the present day’s world, you simply by no means know. 

There’s one factor you’ll be able to know for sure. When you don’t eat, you’ll finally die. If it’s a matter of ravenous or residing, consuming vulture meat or eggs no less than offers you an opportunity to stay. At any price, I doubt the federal government shall be implementing species safety legal guidelines in a TEOTWAWKI state of affairs.

Nonetheless, I’d wish to consider higher choices could be obtainable. Maybe think about another survival meals as an alternative. Whereas all of us hope to by no means stay in such a world, in the end, it’s a must to resolve if consuming vulture meat is well worth the threat.