The claim: --Locavores, listen up: if you want to eat non-GMO, antiobiotic- and hormone-free, lean, free range, local, healthy meat, you need to look up. Limb chicken, as squirrels are affectionately known in many hunting circles, is arguably better than grassfed beef or organic pork when it comes to planetary health. This isn’t to suggest that squirrels should be eaten instead of beef, but rather in tandem. In fact, many small beef and dairy farms are ideally positioned to create the perfect squirrel habitat. Large ruminants, moving through hardwood forests, graze and trample undergrowth, creating the type of park-like habitat ideally suited to squirrel populations. So enjoy your free range hamburger, but try it with a side of squirrel pie.-- It is true that our oak savanna grazing operations create habitat for squirrels; both ground squirrels and grey tree squirrels. But it is an exaggeration, possibly for humorous effect, to cite squirrel as having any significant impact on planetary health. And then theres rabbit... modernfarmer/2014/12/new-years-resolution-eat-squirrel-2015/
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