Eating wildlife

Sometimes when I'm outside in nature, I try eating wild plants and small animals (snails, clams, fish, sometimes bugs). I do it for 2 reasons: because I'm intersted in the taste and because I think it would be useful in a real life survival situation. My mom thinks it's weird but allows it. Is this normal?

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  • firetruck

    You should educate yourself on what is safe to consume and what isn't.

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    • That's alright, I have a couple of survival guide books and I watch a lot of the Man VS Wild TV show.
      I've also noticed that lately a lot of presenters on Travel Channel and Discovery are doing this so I guess it's not that weird?

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  • jrphotographer

    Yes about eating plants (I've done it..so cool! It feels like I'm on man vs. Wild haha) but no about the bugs, thats kinda gross even though they do it in other countries.

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  • aussiewolf

    yes its good practice and not many people would do this so if there was a major natural disaster and you had to survive living off the land, you would have already had experience so you would know how to survive. good job.

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  • Avant-Garde

    Yes, but you need to be extremely careful with you eat. You have to make sure that it's not dangerous or prepared properly!

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  • Sniperdude416

    Plants yes but animals only if you kook them

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  • deedeliriant

    I don't think it's that weird. Whatever floats your boat, y'know?

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  • gako

    Stomp.com hahahahhHa your comment made my morning afternoon and night ! lOLllllll

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  • zEropoint

    Make sure you get a good field guide. You don't want to be just shoving any old thing in there because some stuff is toxic.

    But is it normal? Absolutely. The only way you get to the top of the food chain is if you're willing to try and eat everything, and that's exactly what human beings do. Just about anything is safely edible for a human being because our blood detoxifying system is pretty good. If you've got a relatively healthy liver, you should be good to chow down.

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  • stomp.com.sg

    Go be jungle man and be one with nature.

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  • Ribbit.

    I eat the local plants all the time! Like dandilions Clovers etc.

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  • TheTodd11

    I bet in your pass life you were a starving child in Ethiopia!!!!

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  • haha it's totally normal i know people who do that kind of things, i tried doing shit like this myself on occasions

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  • Malicious

    Be careful, some one nearly died from eating a snail because it had been poisoned. The guy got meningitis, which led to swelling of the brain and spinal cord.

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  • kellstar

    Can't say it's normal but if u enjoy it then keep on keeping on

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