The argument for eating bison (buffalo) meat

[benjaming]

My grandfather was one of those ranchers who had a herd of buffalo. He started with a small number of genetically pure free-range American Bison in the 1970s and grew it with the goal of re-establishing it into tribal and/or conservation herds. He successfully did so a year or two before his death in 2015. He was proud of that!

[maluinthes]

So you're telling me that buffalo dont have tiny, delicious wings?

[KarlRock]

Beef is outlawed in most of India where I live, so the legal alternative is buffalo. It tastes nearly the same as beef. You might not even know if you’re eating it in a hamburger. Their milk is creamier and tastier for milk tea too. Fast food joints here still choose to use sheep meat on their red meat burgers though. Bison is too close to cow for them I guess.

[Del_S]

"We cannot let this delicious example of nature go extinct!"
"Don't you mean beautiful?"
"Nope. Now, here's why I season the zoo, not the steak...."

[jerrell]

That “yeah bro they did, until we killed them all” reminds me of the line from King Of The Hill
“:Do your people even celebrate thanksgiving?
:They did....once.”

[ianshear]

You know Adam was smacking his lips when he could give a “baby, you got a stew goin” reference, a history lesson, and a generous portion of white wine in the recipe all in one video

[xero]

One of my university lecturers is an evolutionary biologist and a strong advocate for the consumption of kangaroos in Australia. They are far more suited for the Australian farmland, use much less water and have gut microbiome that produce much less methane than cows. They're also already plentiful and breed easily, making them fantastic farm animals for us, which can help Australia reduce its huge water and land consumption for meat.

[cinemaocd]

There were so many bison bones left on the prairie in my native North Dakota, that farmers during the dust bowl era were still grinding them up to use as fertilizer. I have a friend that is a bison rancher and he assures me that they are much smarter, faster, stronger and more difficult to manage than cattle. It's part of the reason that bison meat is more expensive than boutique beef. It just takes more work and consequently you can't manage as many of them. The Dakota/Lakota method was to them manage themselves (though they did do work to maintain that massive bison habitat through burning) and pick them off strategically. It's always amazing to me that they did it on horses and even more amazing that they did it WITHOUT horses for a lot longer. Also having lived in the upper midwest my whole life I always said "buffalo" and I still do in my heart.

[redbirdsrising]

Fun fact: There's a small herd of Bison on Catalina Island off of California (About 100 or so). Brought over in the 1920s I believe for a movie, and they let them loose. They aren't directly maintained so they are "Wild", and because of the small size of the island, they evolved in a way to grow up smaller than their mainland counterparts.

[philpaine]

In much of northern Canada, bison, deer, wapiti and moose have always been staple foods. Look at any old Canadian cookbook and you'll see plenty of recipes for them. Bison burgers are common in Canada's west, even among the urban and suburban crowd. I''m very fond of a traditional Cree and Metis treat: the Moose Nose Sandwich, made from alternating slices of the dark and light meats from the upper jawbone of a moose cooked with gelatin to make a spreadable head cheese. The bread for the sandwich is, of course, traditional bannock made with barley flour.

[curlygurly]

When Adam was talking about his favorite bison preparation, I was NOT expecting him to just eat it raw lol. But I'm not disappointed.

[DarshanBhambhani]

"Like beef and pork have a baby"
"And we eat the baby"

that's it, Adam has finally lost it

[bsn]

Even on a ranch they're still very wild. I worked at a restaurant at a resort ranch in Utah a couple months. All I heard from the guys doing the ranching was how hard it was to herd them and how dangerous it was. They had some big reinforced fences when I started that the bison would habitually break and go wherever they wanted. They had a small grazing area where they had constructed massive, very strong fences that the bison couldn't easily break that held them for a while before the bison figured out they could just go through the gate. Eventually they got that figured out in time for a big event with the governor of Utah. The event planners wanted to see the bison run across a field during the event and when they were let out they took a run at freedom and it took over a week to get them back to the reinforced area. I thought it was kind of funny 😁

[tamarfrank]

Hi adam I would be really interested in a video about overfishing I think that could be extremely Interesting also about how lobster, oysters and sturgeon was food for prisoners and are now extremely expensive and considered luxurious


(If you see this thank you so much for your time 🙂)

[muraddiab]

I used to work at the Brookfield Zoo just outside of Chicago. We had a bison restaurant that I’d always go to on my lunch break the food was pretty good but my co worker refused to eat there because the restaurant was only quarter of a mile from the live bison exhibit.

[corey]

I've heard raising them is a lot more work & just more time consuming, as I wondered why it wasn't more popular overall. After trying a bison burger & later a steak, I instantly thought it was crazy it hadn't become more common. It just tastes better to me, & the fact it's healthier is just an added bonus.

Then again, I understand marbling on certain cuts is what's most appreciated, & buffalo having less of that must be why.

[mev]

I love the historical information. As a Native American it makes me happy to have more of our history brought to light for a bigger audience.

[Lilly-Gorney]

The "darkened the plains" description immediately reminded me the passenger pigeon. They were so numerous that their flocks blotted out the sun for hours at a time, and are estimated to have numbered in the billions. By 1914, the last one died.

[graceholmquest]

I wrote my undergrad thesis about eating bison meat as a replacement of eating CAFO raised cattle. Loved to see your take on this topic :)

[TheRealHaloLover]

As an indigenous (Navajo) American myself I appreciate this so much 🙏 it's hard to live in a country that until very recently actively sought to erase us in every way possible. Bison is delicious, our word for bison is "Ayání". Fun fact: We northern Arizona tribes have our own breed of sheep obtained from the Spanish in the 16th century. (We also love chile and traded with Aztecs & Mayans)