The argument for eating bison (buffalo) meat 

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There is a theory they dropped some time during evolution.

my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined

I think they lose it by interbreeding with the cows

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Good on your granddad!

Who owns it now?

@@user-xv3fl9pt3o primarily, a conservation organization and habitat called The Crane Trust south of Grand Island, Nebraska :)

Wow!! I'm proud of him too! What a great thing

Great for your grandfather :)

@@Vel_D you might wanna look at the religious angle. Most Hindus consider the cow as sacred and therefore you cannot slaughter it.

@@dancooper6002 that concept applies to the west not to us. The "church" (or temple in our case) never interfered in how the country was ruled

@@dancooper6002 tell that to the US where the president takes the oath of office on a RELIGIOUS book and is sworn in by a bloody priest. Sermonize to the UK where the titular head of state must be a practising Anglican. Take your BS to Pakistan where a non Muslim cannot hold the office of president, prime minister or chief of army staff BY LAW. Don't you patronize us buddy.

@@gunner. There are parts of India where Hindus do eat beef like Kerala

@@James-un8io and beef is legal in Kerala. States are free to have their own laws.

Still remember our combat instructors telling us that as tempting as it would be, we couldn’t shoot the bison if they come down range

I’ve heard two stories of them getting killed by mistake. One of those stories 5 of them got hit by 155mm shell.

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Personally I think we should repopulate it because it was a native species we killed. But having them taste good too isn't a bad thing. Ironically RESPONSIBLE hunters are big conservationist.

reasons why i kidnap the parents, and not the kids.

There were giant turtles in the Galapagos Island whose meat was so delicious that supposedly even Darwin's expedition had trouble bringing a species because they couldn't resist eating it in their trip back home.

@@SKyrim190 The sailors were used to bringing them along for food on the voyage back. BTW They are NOT turtles. They are tortoises, and they still live there. Some probably even were there when Darwin was. They live a LONG time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_tortoise

You know, a friend of mine's a comedian, and he was doing a standup here in town. A bunch of people from the German consulate came down to see him, and they came backstage afterwards, and they said to him, "How come we don't have anyone as funny as you back home?" And my friend said, "Because you killed them all."

@@SpecialJay That's a pretty old line

@@SpecialJay das hast du dir aber schön zusammengereimt, kollege schnürschuh

@@cheaptricked3148 very, so of course, not mine: I don't know a comedian who performed for the German consulate.

We give thanks everyday. Most of us treat Thanksgiving as a colonized genocidal day. A day of mourning.

K. make very nice wallets. Canada calling. I owned one!!

What does kangaroo taste like? beefy? porky? sheepy? What prevents commercial kangaroo farming?

@@Chris-ut6eq honestly probably just consumer tastes i cant imagine there's that many people waiting to make roos apart of their diet

I'd like to try it, most of the meat I eat is wild so I'm always interested what other wild meat tastes like

What an idiot

All he was missing was "Long Live The Empire" and "Heterogeneity!"

@@redbirdsrising don't forget a "nnnnNNNNOOOO!"

And end on Tatanka Tataki, this was a Ragusea home run

Yep. This is his masterpiece.

Definitely a Ragusea masterpiece. He even snuck in a Lauren cameo

very cool

For what?

@@Aurmm thank you nortiz von massau

@@ichase8555 thank u casefich

Big Regusea

mouth watering

My Dad used to work next to a local Butcher up in Northern Ontario, and every year the butcher’s freezers would be packed full of moose, bear, and other wild game that the hunters sold him

@@benjaminbyrnison4882 well, I'm from N. Ontario (Vermillion Bay, Geraldton) and you are not allowed in Canada to sell wild game. You can GIVE it to First Nations, but not sell it.

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Would that be near Kanab? I horsebacked on a ranch back in 04 with some Bison. That was a great memory

@@ryanprosper88 yeah it wasn't far from Kanab, like a 35 minute drive

lol

I think he’s intentionally giving the RU-vid Poop channels more sound bites to play around with Kano lmao

@@maenad1231 The what now?

@@Sundara229😂

i dont know if hes ever had it all together 😭 always been slightly unhinged

And this is how the Catalina Wine Mixer came to be!

@@whompthereiti5 You mean the Fucking Catalina Wine Mixer

Omg are they pigmy bison??

I'm pretty sure they're managed these days. At least that's what I heard the last time I went to Catalina. Like they recently culled a bunch of females or smt? BUt yeah, brought over for a movie.

@@redbirdsrising You mean they “adapted”, they didn’t evolve at all to be smaller. Adaptations are short term changes, and they can be drastic. They didn’t evolve at all, just like bird species can change beak shapes over short periods of time to deal with the environment.

I know somebody that raised to them. You have to have special fencing. They will walk through most fences without even thinking about it. They're more wild than cattle. They take special trailers. But you get a lot more meat. And they taste good.

I remember reading a theory that suggests the massive North American herds (bison, pigeons, others) were actually an anomaly that wouldn’t have naturally occurred. Instead, they may have been a temporary, unbalanced result of early western explorers and settlers. The thinking is that native peoples had been part of an ecosystem that kept these animal populations in check, either through hunting, human settlement, agriculture, or even intentional maintenance and manipulation of the environment. (brush fires to clear and expand prairie land, for example). When the first wave of western explorers came to the Americas, they unintentionally decimated native populations through foreign disease and the introduction of invasive species that that unbalanced the ecosystem. With the weakened presence of native peoples no longer keeping them in check, some animal populations exploded to unsustainable sizes over a few generations. Just in time to be witnessed by the 2nd and 3rd waves of explorers and settlers, who assumed that was the natural state of things because it was all new to them. It was an interesting read.

@@Althestane That's really interesting, do you remember the source of that theory

And now the entire planet is 20° hotter.

Always a tragedy to read about an animal going extinct when it has happened so recently that sometimes the actual date the last one died is known. Or that an animal that was once numerous has reached where the actual amount surviving is precisely, or close to, known.

@@alkaliaurange I read that too! Was in the book 1492, which explores the different cultures living in the americas before columbus arrived. And yes, the theory is pretty tight.

Saw it coming when he compared it to tuna

I'm not a fan of very rare beef steaks but that looked delicious

im not surprised since he seasons his cutting board to begin with

It's so weird how he cooks it, but it's still mostly uncooked inside. There should be a common culinary term for that - incredibly common, not **rare** at all.

Why not? People eat raw beef all the time. Carpaccio and steak tartar, for example.

Cool bit of history. Thanks for sharing.

They definitely have vastly more endurance then beef. I'm a old school butcher in South Dakota and just looking at esophagus size you can tell they can run for hours upon hours. Nearly 2.5x then size of a beef.

@@DynTravi you mean windpipe/lungs? Don't really see how the eosophagus relates to endurance.

@@Tinky1rs I meant everything I said. I'm the one wrist deep in them.

@@DynTravi So what makes you relate endurance and eosophagus size? I don't get that part.

Well, before horses, Lakota and other plains natives had a very different way of life than we traditionally associate them with, instead of nomads following bisons herds and hunting them regulary, First, they were located in the great lake region, conflict with other natives drive them west, and second they hunt a little, ut they also gathered some wild rice and some corn. Most of the plains native were agriculturals sedentary nations, that grew corn in the plains and hunted some bisons when they passed by. It's really the horse in the XVIIIth century that totally changed the way of life of all these Natives ^^

farm to table? nah, i prefer zoo to table

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@@AxxLAfriku Mans actually made the dude above me go insane with his dumb comments lmao

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Lauren was so horrified

@@tomrogue13 Yep

more fuel for the YTPs

@@thenarwhalmage Oh, definitely

Johnathan Swift would be proud.

It's a stew, Michael! how much could it cost? 10 dollars?

Such an underrated show

Arrested Development, classic.

What

@@nijhum3429 arrested development. It’s a TV show. It’s on Netflix you should watch it

I laughed way too much

@@kirayoshikage593 I did more than u

@@virtualabc7847 I did more than u

the adam ragusea yt poop fans are gonna have a good time with that clip

@@rawturkey ytp

He didn’t touch in the real reason why colonizers tried to kill off all bison tho. Sad tbh

@@MrBankalicious as a not american I always heard that colonizers tried to wipe all the bisons out to starve the indians, clearing their path to dig the ground for pursuing gold. Is that correct?

@@rafaelborbacs as an american, yeah, that’s what i heard. if an american school and non-american school are teaching the same thing, i’d bet it’s true. it wasn’t for gold though. the spanish, who wanted gold, mostly left bison alone, but american pioneers would kill off bison herds to kill off native americans.

@@MrBankalicious bruh the natives would run the herds off cliffs lol

Everyone here please do your research.

Salmon was so much used in medevil era that it came laws that mandated how many times it could be used to feed workers a week to limit the use due to cost.

Same is true for lobster, we had laws about how often lobster could be fed to servant or slaves

Or how being obese was historically a sign of wealth, but now it’s a sign of poverty because of food deserts and stuff

Yeah we really need to stop overfishing and really just take some time to fix upp the oceans

Good idea

That reminds me of an old joke. An American hunter and his native guide sailed the Mississipi on a boat. They saw an isolated bison nearby, so both left the boat and tried to get close. As they approached the bison, it spotted them and began to charge. The native guide immediately bolted and ran back to the river. The hunter looked disapprovingly at this display of cowardice, calmly lowered his rifle, took aim at the bison, and dropped it at the first shot. Then he stood up and called his guide back. The latter dejectedly came back. The hunter gestured at the bison and said, "See? That was easy." The guide replied, "Right. Now stupid white man try carry bison back to the boat himself."

Oregon Trail Reference lol

You don't have to carry the whole bison anywhere. Just build a fire. Set up some poles. Cut the meat up into thin pieces. Smoke & dry it. While you're waiting for the meat to cure, make some soup with the bones & cook the organ meat for food. What's left should be MUCH easier to carry. It's a couple of days' delay, but in a good cause.

@@robinlillian9471 now now, if it’s so easy show us Robin, do it yourself

@@robinlillian9471 The First Nations and Metis in Canada, and America did that with wild game, like bison (buffalo). The historical channel, Jas. Townshend & Son did an episode on drying bison meat, and even made a soup from it.

rofl indeed.

Carl Weathers approves

“I think I want my money back.” 😬

“Whoa whoa whoa, there’s still plenty of meat on that bone”

I wouldn't mind getting beefalo burgers lol

Why I starch my chest instead of my blouse.

Ted Turner was kind of a Jeff Bezos of the 80s, with a bit of Elon Musk thrown in. He built a fortune off the new medium of cable television and a public image of being kind of nuts. His most famous creations were CNN and Cartoon Network. He largely disappeared from public view after selling Turner Broadcasting System to Time-Warner in 1996, so only U.S. 80s kids or older will be likely to know his name, but Millennials probably grew up watching his cable stations.

CNN, Cartoon Network, Atlanta Braves, Turner Field (the former Braves stadium in Atlanta), TCM (Turner Classic Movies) on cable, Ted's Montana Grill restaurant chain, the controversy of Turner Media 'colorizing' old black-and-white movies and TV shows, married to Jane Fonda, owns huuuuge areas of land in Montana. Jane once said "Ted believes the best way to save nature is to buy it."

@@llaughridge out of all of those things I've heard of cnn, cartoon network and jane fonda lmao you americans are wild

Adam probably (perhaps mistakenly) assumes his audience is knowledgeable and cultured enough to know who Ted Turner is

@@mislovelover31 Correction: you HAD only heard of those three, NOW you've heard of the others I mentioned. Isn't learning fun?

I wish we could go back in time and have a more harmonious existence the settlers could’ve learned a lot from the Indigenous People . Thank you so much for sharing your story it is really fascinating I would love to learn more about it.

If only... We need to do what we can now to heal our relationship.

@@sandrastreifel6452 I l agree Completely. The treatment of the indigenous people in North America has been shameful to say the least I would love to know how and what we can do to help now

@@ajl8198 you think? How much you think modern times (like 2021, not ~1900s-2000) would change?

really wish you guys had won tbh, just as long as it wouldn't be the comanches, I hear they managed to do war even worse than white people

Human history is one long, glacial movement towards treating each other slightly-less-shitily, interspersed with periods of intense regression(see Nazi Germany, especially when compared to its predecessors).

Gastropod did a fantastic podcast on the species we humans ate to extinction, would highly recommend

And by "people" he should've said European genociders

@@RoyalKnightVIII I mean, Africans, Asians and so on have all done their fair share of awful shit. It's one of the uniting facets of humanity: We're all kinda terrible.

Human is very good at killing

It is the best thing in the video tbh

now we got a stew going

So obscure that there's dozens of comments commenting on it. Dozens!

My friend and I went to burger King with people who never saw the show before. My friend said "you know you can get a refill on any drink you want here and it's free" I raised my burger and said "it's a wonderful restaurant!" They looked as us like we were freaks.

There’s always references in the banana stand.

I must not have seen it, I don't recognize the line or any of the comments. 🤔🍻

Selfish reasons are the best reasons to do selfless things.

En serio? No me había enterado. Algún día tengo que probar jaja.

@@pedrochiapello sí, en corrientes los producen. Dice que las empanadas de yacaré son ricas.

There's always better chances to get humans to do things, if it's not purely selfless ^^ Even our conservation efforts are non sensical, the symbolf of WWF is a panda, do you think it's because pandas are a valuable species for the environment? Or because they are cute? XD

poizd: Just as well to eat some of the alligators. Alligators used to be rare in Florida, but they reproduce VERY quickly, and now every body of water is dangerous again. They even sometimes take up residence in swimming pools.

I will never get over that image

Very heartbreaking. Especially when you hear that they would just shoot them for the hides and leave the meat. We really are something else.

Then you'd really lose it to know the shit the US and Can has done to us Natives just the past 100yrs. Christianity has been apart of the problem.

@@melanieortiz712 Oh i'm well aware. I did some work for the akisq̓nuk when I visited Canada. I also travelled to Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk and I met some of the lovliest first nation people. What white men did to the first nations is a dark stain on history.

@@vegardjohannessen3009 still doing. Our genocide and issues of illegal occupation and oppression are perpetual issues.

By a special process, don't you just mean that the meat was frozen and kept under dry ice condition (under -78C) so it kills the parasites and their eggs?

Well.. we can’t judge the past in a way that they can’t judge us, they got problems we don’t have and that we wouldn’t understand. If we got millions of bison roaming around the highway, there might be initiatives to lowered their population too.

@@beluwuga the main incentive was to starve the natives, that's literally it.

yo i think abt this wrt passenger pigeons so often :( hard to believe it was once the most abundant bird in north america

@@pigeonfood420 never underestimate the destructive ability of man

@@dkerkowoutdoors4623Agreed! Man can be extremely destructive. However, in my opinion, given the numbers and time frame, the Passenger Pigeon was not hunted to extinction. The species more than likely died out from a virus or other inadvertantly introduced biological pathogen.

would be super useful ngl

Lol are you gonna comment this on every video until he does it

Now this is a good suggestion!

Yeah, very comprehensive. Always wondered

Put it in a dishwasher

Rhinoceroses don’t have ivory.

The horns are used in Chinese traditional medicine. This solution wouldn't work for elephants ivory I think. Eventually though, the tusks on elephants will disappear as the male with tusks are hunted to extinction and the males without, left alone. The gene pool will suffer though

😂

Certainly very disturbing

As if, if there were any complex life forms they would be standing on our heads. Also keep in mind that as civilizations evolve they change structureally, obviously no one piles heads of bison in 2021, and if an alien civilization is at the point of space travel they wouldn’t be like that ether

Those Popplers won't harvest themselves!

@@NeostormXLMAX Any complex life form would likely have similar events in their own history. This whole "any advanced alien race would be perfect and look down on humanity for not being perfect" is such an obnoxious and played-out trope. If Native Americans had advanced technologically and civilized then they would likely have done similar things. They didn't have any kind of superior way of living, EVERY culture at one point "lived in harmony with nature" because they didn't have the means or the necessity to consume any more.

I had elk sausage once, I think it was Norwegian? Maybe Danish? It was good. Would be neat to try more

A native calling himself “native american” and feeling like captain america seems sus

@@shakoiatenhawithacrossjaco9051 probably one of those people who are white but proudly proclaim that they're Cherokee. As if your 2% Cherokee makes you native American it's the only tribe those people know for some reason. but if someone mentioned something else I might give it some merit. I'm a native And I have 2 % asian. So what, am I asian? Should I emigrate to china? Sorry but I knew someone who tried to push to get "his" percap and got laughed at, he's mad and is trying to do some sort of lawsuit.

@@lobsterboywonder I'm trying to identify my grandfather's tribe so my mom can relearn the language he taught her when she was his last baby girl. It would mean a lot to her and be good for her mental health. (She's 85.) I think he was saying he was of the Alabama tribe but was thought to be saying he was from Alabama (which he was but maybe both). Anyway, once he got to Oklahoma history turned to lore and all she remembers is the rhythm and lilt of their secret language. It's an interesting project and she's excited about it and that's reason enough for me.

I had an elk burger in Norway and did not eat anything else for three days. It definitely keeps you satiated. 😂

As a hunter... I am happy we have rifles/bows. If we could talk to the animals, they would also probably like us shooting them from 100 yards away. Taking only good clean shots. Rather than being chased down by a pack of humans/wolves, or a big cat jumping off of a tree.

Exactly. They are a crucial species for an entire bioregion.

Cows also eat grasses to the roots killing them off, where as bison do not and help an ecosystem thrive.

How are you going to un deplete bison if you merely turn them loose for the wolves to eat? "... Struggling to gain food sovereignty" like they were before the colonials came? Are you going to mention how some of the indigenous would chase whole herds of buffalo off a cliff to get one or two worth of meat harvested and leave the rest to spoil?

@@ShiningSakura I can find nothing on this can you provide me with proof if you dont mind?

@@cmo5807 there was a video on PBS wyoming farm to fork I believe was the program name and they talked about goats, cows and bison and their impact on grazing pastures and ecosystem in the grasslands. Saw it on youtube.

native to where? lol

@@jitt992 native American you must not be American

@@azurethegolden7928 nah i am but look at their profile picture they don't look like no native american 😂

@@jitt992 he looks Asian if anything, and his only playlist is flying the Russian flag many times so I can say he's definitely 100% Native American.

@@_wanted_outlaw3007 lol

thank you for clarifying

I did not know that I needed this comment, but now I do

Damn, you were first :D

bro.....this one actually hurt

^o^

or... what did the bison say when he dropped of his kid at school

Are ya gonna cry on your little pillow? I bet it's a Hogg Pillow.

that cool to imagine

No I'm not going to cry but that same teacher reminded us several times that history repeats itself. So, let's do a thought experiment. Let's say some ultra powerful alien adolescent find him/herself at our planet. Not understanding (or caring about) human emotions, feelings or connections he/she finds something curious about the human brain. They want to collect all the brains on the planet so they create a small robot army that roams the planet paralyzing groups of humans so they can slice the human skulls up to extract the brains while the other humans watch until it's there turn. A scenario like this is completely possible. Us humans have ignorant children because it takes time to learn things. Why wouldn't that be true to some ultra-powerful alien civilization? In fact, that young alien could simply look at our internet and pull the story about the buffalo. They could use that part of our history where we killed hundreds of thousands of Buffalo just for the hide leaving the rest of the animal to rot and make a case for them to lay waste the entire human race. - Moral of the story. Go look in the mirror. Your brain could be the next wagyu A5.

@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 what a nice productive and wholesome comment

😆I just watched that episode the other day.🤣

Bye-son

it wouldn't be a swap, nobody is considering getting rid of cattle

@@justincameron9123 That's not really how hypothetical things work. The question is not, if it would happen, but as follows, "If, for various reasons, farm animals were replaced with native species, what would the effect on climate change be from that change?"

A side point is that grazing be it buffalo or cattle has a huge importance to grasslands, physical disruption to the soil, fertilization and large animals doing things like breaking trees by scratching on them prevents shrubs and forests from taking over grasslands. When we try to establish say upland bird hunting areas a huge human effort is required to mow down brush, cut back tree growth etc.. Solid evidence is herds of bison maintained the grassland soul and created all that healthy soil thats now farmland suffering fallow fields and run off

Cows function exactly the same as bison environmentally. They’re both large, bovine ruminants. Both are great for livestock, as environmental protection and human food.

@@kaydenl6836 I think saying, "exactly the same" is an overstatement, very similar yes, exactly the same, no.

There's still plenty meat on that bone.

Perhaps _we're_ the idiots and the bison are laughing at us for not being able to multitask. 🤔

Try it and see how your girlfriend or boyfriend likes it.

@@ThatGuy-kz3fx so?

he's a millionaire optimising his time