The Washington newspaper Roll Call ran a feature today about the unusual décor – a stuffed lion, bear and other big game trophies – in Rep. Paul Broun’s office.
Broun makes a point of eating all of his kills. He says it is a way of showing respect for the animal in addition to having a great meal. The hunt doesn’t always translate to tasty eating, though. On a hunting trip to Zimbabwe a few years back, Broun shot, killed and, yes, ate the lion that now stands beside his desk.
“After eating this animal, the natives called me Boss Shumba, which means Boss Lion,” he says proudly. “They’d never seen a guy come and actually eat a lion. It’s not very good.” In fact, Broun says, lion meat was too chewy.
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does he eat all of it?
my guess is just a bite or two.
On African Safari's native
On African Safari's native people show up after a kill carrying pots and pans to get meat from a kill. Saw a guy shoot an elephant with a bow once and there was a long line of natives who came to get meat for their families. The carcass was picked to the bone literally.
My son brought a squirrel home a couple of weeks ago. He cooked and ate the animal (which my wife referred to as a rat with a bushy tail.) A hunter eats what he kills with a usual exception of predators (coyotes) and animals that eat carrion (crows). I know some who have eaten the last two categories of animals however I will pass on those two examples.
That being said I am sure he didn't eat "The Whole Thing."