Has anyone here eaten a animal fresh after the kill?

[intouchwithinstinct]

Whether its seafood or wild game.  I'm curious I know many tribes fresh after a kill would cut the animal open and eat its liver.  I suppose there's probably some small sea animals that you can chew down well there still squirming, probably bugs like this too.

I am excited to hear about others experiences.

[majormark]

I was about to do that, a few days ago, when I saw some live chickens being sold at the market. I did not buy any because I remembered I had enough beef in my fridge and I thought I would have to clean a lot of mess if I kill them in the kitchen.

[TylerDurden]

Well, technically, I eat live oysters and live mussels.

I wonder if any rawpalaeo has eaten those live octopi available in Korea and maybe Japan.

[Hannibal]

One week ago I ate fresh lamb that was still a little bit warm - some muscle-meat, suet and bone marrow. Extraordinary experience.

[ForTheHunt]

Yes, nothing beats a big steaming cup of blood after a cold days worth of stalking

[goodsamaritan]

Common food I eat alive are clams and oysters.
Same with crabs.  Crabs are sold alive.  I just chop it in half and eat.
We think nothing of it.  Kids eat it too.
Ate some duck and some chicken which we raised ourselves and slaughtered ourselves.
I don't know if fish counts, but after fishing, we eat it a few hours later, same with fresh fish in the wet market.  Fish is fresher at fishing villages where the fishermen had just dumped their catch for the day.
Same with goat or beef.  As goats are slaughtered at selling to us the customer.
Beef gets killed at 12 midnight and sold at 5am.  I have the fresh hung beef for lunch at 12 noon.

[cherimoya_kid]

I have eaten live crab many times.

[TylerDurden]

Well, given my stance re animal-rights, I'm happy to eat mussels and oysters live as they seem not terribly sentient, but I draw the line at eating live crabs or live lobsters. That is, I have to buy them live, but I freeze them at least into a state of torpor and often, I suspect, they end up frozen to death, as I leave them in the freezer for hours. I gather they go into suspended animation when put in the freezer so they notice nothing.

While I don't personally approve of eating live animals of crab-size or above, I suppose it's nowhere near as bad as what  cooked-eaters do which is to boil lobsters alive.

[Stig of the Dump]

I have a theory, I've mentioned before, that early cooking experiments might have been an attempt to recreate the experience of "steaming hot meat" you would get from eating something freshly hunted at the site of the kill.

I can imagine people being excited at the discovery that they had made old meat back in camp seem just as warm and tasty as fresh meat eaten out on the plain.  (Of course, no one would realise the "harm" they were doing to the meat's quality by cooking it.)