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Nope - won't eat the body's filter. If it's got crap, it's likely to be there. Like using your car's oil filter for a water glass. Aw, man, that analogy ruined my appetite for liver forever. The coyotes will clean it up along with the rest of the gut pile.
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My son loves liver and keeps them all out of our deer we kill. I hate it and think it tastes like puke.
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Dam good eating fried wifey refuses to cook it
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Dam good eating fried wifey refuses to cook it Here too. I started deer hunting with my grandfather when I was a kid. He always carried a bread bag with him when we hunted. When we killed a deer He would take the liver and put it in the bread bag. When we got home he would fry it up. He loved eating it, I like it too. always ate it fresh, couple hours old.
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My German Shepherds get both the heart and liver. I cook it outside as we can't stand the smell. They love it.
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I carry two gallon size freezer bags rolled up in my hunting vest for the deer heart and liver. Good eats.
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Dam good eating fried wifey refuses to cook it Here too. I started deer hunting with my grandfather when I was a kid. He always carried a bread bag with him when we hunted. When we killed a deer He would take the liver and put it in the bread bag. When we got home he would fry it up. He loved eating it, I like it too. always ate it fresh, couple hours old. Sounds like me with a bread bag in the spring for mushrooms while turkey hunting.
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Deer liver is delicious. No-one in my family will eat it other than me, so one per season is enough. I keep one from younger healthy deer. Never seen flukes but occasionally see one with spots. I don't save those.
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My girlfriend, who professes to hate venison, requests that I save the liver…..she loves it fried with onions. (I have her hooked on grilled tenderloin now so maybe there’s hope for her yet). Had to give her the bad news I trashed this one, but didn’t say why, that would’ve turned her off anything deer related!
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I'm a liver lover but will trash any that have flukes in them. The other morning I fried up a batch of diced goose liver and onions and eat it on buttered toast points, pheasant, grouse and duck livers get the same treatment. Beaver liver and onions is as good or better than calves liver. Up beaver trapping it is our morning breakfast.
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No thanks. As already mentioned, I know what the liver does for a body. Those that enjoy, enjoy! But for me, no thanks.
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Dean, I hope you don’t really believe the liver is a filter. Because rest assured it is not. It does not trap or retain any toxin. It chemically modifies toxins to make them benign or soluble enough to be passed on and out the digestive tract. It also makes various hormones and enzymes for other vital functions of the body. It is in no way an oil filter analogue. Plus they are nutritious and delicious.
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Dean, I hope you don’t really believe the liver is a filter. Because rest assured it is not. It does not trap or retain any toxin. It chemically modifies toxins to make them benign or soluble enough to be passed on and out the digestive tract. It also makes various hormones and enzymes for other vital functions of the body. It is in no way an oil filter analogue. Plus they are nutritious and delicious. Someone better let the scientists at NH DNR know... Do not eat deer liver - recommendation. Wisconsin too
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I hear they are good for catfish bait.
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I used to save every deer liver I got. But back in the 80s I was slicing liver and I had huge fluke squirming on the cutting board. Last liver I ever kept.
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There are no “scientists” familiar with hepatic function that believe the liver is a filter. In New Hampshire or otherwise. And don’t think one part of a deer from a Superfund site in Wisconsin is any kind of wholesome while another being more nutrient dense is not. In fact I would wager the fellow eating the liver alone in such conditions would fare far better in the long run than the soul who was not. Liver is a detoxifying, fortifying superfood whether you like the taste or idea of it, or not.
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Ate them all the time growing up and just don’t like them as much now. I will still save and eat every heart.
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Liver is dog food, gizzards are where it's at for me.
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