When I was growing up on a farm in Jeeralang Junction ,( Latrobe valley part of the Greater Gippsland) my dad killed our own animals . He hung the carcass and skinned it in the machinery shed , he cleaned the body of the intestines and removed the head but saving the livers , kidneys , brains and the feet in regards the pigs . The carcass would hang and drain for up to a week unrefrigerated and in the open .
I have seen the meat maggoted and coloured but at the end of the draning time the carcass would be washed down and patted dry My father would then lower the carcass onto a wooden slated table where he would proceed to cut the animal for refrigeration .
I have no memory of tough or dry meat as a child or a teen while we had the farm .
What each society understands by 'raw ', 'cooked " or " rotten"can only be determined through ethnographical observation and we will never be in agreement on the definitions..
What is important is we acknowledge we cannot live with hunger and malnutrition .
Noelene
I have seen the meat maggoted and coloured but at the end of the draning time the carcass would be washed down and patted dry My father would then lower the carcass onto a wooden slated table where he would proceed to cut the animal for refrigeration .
I have no memory of tough or dry meat as a child or a teen while we had the farm .
What each society understands by 'raw ', 'cooked " or " rotten"can only be determined through ethnographical observation and we will never be in agreement on the definitions..
What is important is we acknowledge we cannot live with hunger and malnutrition .
Noelene
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