Re: buying old meat from supermarket

On Sep 2, 5:02 pm, Dave Smith <adavid.sm...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Dimitri wrote:
>
> >> Other members of the family thought this was truly awful.  My view is
> >> that although if you smell it closely, it is different;  but that it
> >> is basically just a bit of *oxizidation* and it does not effect the
> >> taste. Years ago they used to hang up 'game' outside for weeks.
>
> > Then again people used to die at 30 from natural causes Including
> > parasites.
>
> Then again, a lot of people used to live very long lives. My mothers
> ashes were interred in the cemetery of one of the older local churches
> and visiting her grave I usually end up walking around looking at the
> old grave markers. There are lots of infants and young people buried
> there, but there are a surprising number of people who lived well into
> their 80s and 90s.  My sister in law is quite convinced that people of
> previous generations lived longer and that the average live expectancy
> is is skewed by infant mortality, childhood diseases, mothers dying
> during childbirth,  farm or industrial accidents, but that once someone
> got past childhood and reproductive years they were likely to live a
> long life.

Also, a lot of ppl were prob. buried in potters fields, so a tramp
thru a cemetery doesn't give the big picture on longevity.