Why Don't Americans Eat Reindeer?
Reindeer meat could’ve entered North American cuisine and culture, but our turn of the century efforts to develop a reindeer industry were stymied by nature, the beef lobby, and the Great Depression.
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Show Notes
To learn more about this topic, start your googling with these keywords:
- Reindeer - the smaller, (semi-)domesticated version/subspecies of reindeer (Rangifer tarandus tarandus)
- Caribou - the wild, north American subspecies of Rangifer tarandus (Rangifer tarandus granti and others).
- Wild reindeer - the wild, European/Asian subspecies of Rangifer tarandus.
- Herding - bringing animals together into a group, maintaining the group, and moving the group from place to place
- Rain-on-snow event - exactly what it sounds like! Rain that falls on snow, freezes into a thick layer of impenetrable ice over pastures, and causes mass starvation of reindeer (or caribou).
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