Visit our new Front Page Store . New Sign up for MyNews Receive headline news, full articles and breaking news via the Web or wireless device. Thanks to exotic wildlife and feral hogs, hunting season never really ends in Texas. Hunting seasons for native wildlife are winding down, however, and it's time to consider what you're going to do with all that game in the freezer. I suggest you eat it.
Wild game has less fat than domestic meat, and zero preservatives.
Wild game is the original health food, the only meat consumed by ancient ancestors who ironically worried more about surviving until the next day than living to a ripe old age. If my recollection is correct, my family ate 10 kinds of wild game last year and probably an equal number of fish species. I'm lucky, because my wife is an excellent cook. Emilie can turn a snow goose into a succulent banquet. Snow geese are not high on anybody's list of tasty fowl.