In my personal case, I actually started college when I was 16. In hindsight, it wasn't a good decision, because I effectively had to prepare for college and plan out my life when I was like 14.

Now I'm facing the consequences of decisions made by teenage me and it's pretty stressful<:nervous:359009898115104770>

@Josh M. -OH Hard for me to say. All the bison I've had was steak or burger, but all of the caribou & reindeer I have had is sausage or in a chili

Sausage is cheating. Like deer sausage.

I've only had deer jerky my buddy made himself, damn good though, wonder what like a deer burger/steak is like

You can get elk burger out west easily enough

@Jacob I agree we shouldn't force people to pay for mistakes they made when they were 16 under pressure, for the rest of their lives.

I'm not a big fan of deer

When I was 18 I graduated with an associate's degree and Java developer certificate. At first it might seem like I set myself for life by doing this, but this is actually how I fucked myself over.

@Josh M. -OH needs added fat for sure

@fgtveassassin Pretty good actually, it looks like beef but tastes a lot more tangy.

Add some cajun seasoning and Worcestershire sauce and deer burgers are amazing.

@Wood-Ape - OK/MN see that's why I'm thinking domestication. Fatten those suckers up

Seems counterintuitive, but it makes sense when you think about it. When I started real university, all of the classes that students usually take as fillers to get in the hang of university were already done. So I essentially had to go head first into stuff like engineering physics.

Moral of the story is that a lot of the things that sound like a really great idea when you're 14 and don't know anything turn out to be a pretty bad idea when you're 21 and have to deal with the consequences of your decisions

@Josh M. -OH the Sami / Lapps have been at it for a while. Problem is they burn through fat keeping alive all winter. imported corn could fatten them

The fat is the best part. Most of the flavor lives there

Even lean beef sucks

Agreed. It is a cold weather herbivore though so the metabolic issues are complicated

You could bring them south but they'd overheat

Ha. Asshole reindeer

Farthest south Caribou are in mountains of Idaho and swamps of western Ontario, but they are dwindling

high fat diets are based and redpilled as well

people think that fat makes you fat just because of the name

literally just "it sounds scary"

Thank the diet jew for those lies

White tail and Mule deer are suited for warm weather. I guess you could start selectively breeding them for fat gain capacity

We need more animals with ribeye meat

I want delicious ribeye steaks from all of the hoofers

In awe of the size of that lad

Hefty boy

Absolute ruminant unit

@Wood-Ape - OK/MN Might have to pay double to get the meat processed on that huuuuuge buck.

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This seems so stupid that it has to be a scam

I could really go for a deer burger right about now

I wish I could eat a bun. Could totally go for a Dave's from wendy's

@Jacob Depends on the fat, saturated fats are awful for you. But the mostly unsaturated fats in nuts for example, are pretty healthy.

A meta-analysis by the annals of internal medicine suggest no correlation between saturated and unsaturated fats and heart disease. They find of course trans fats to be dangerous. Omega-3s continue to appear to be helpful. We definitely need some renewed research and guidelines.

Of course, that is teasing out confounds such as weight and activity.

I lie awake at night angry about nutrition research.