Reply #163: No it isn't okay, and the OP should focus on having those bans removed

[DeschutesRiver]

and use the example of the legality of hanging your deer carcasses as a counterpoint. Otherwise, I don't see a problem with some person legally hanging a carcass on his or her own property - I'd figure it was so f'g not my business, esp. when this clearly wasn't about some sporting/trophy dude (just my personal thing I don't care for) but someone who is choosing to get cheaper food for the family and being more authentic and personal about it than the average joe who just shows up with a hand outstretched at Safeway picking through styrofoam containers of god knows what it is/where it came from in the meat department.

The idea that a deer carcass being hung to age to provide a family with food is somehow offensive to the sensibilties is something with which I don't agree. I spent a boatload of time in places like Paris and London, and all the freak over Italy, and it was in towns there that things were hanging a plenty. Vension carcasses, furry bunny rabbits, pheasants, ducks, really all manner of wild game was there displayed in this fashion by the vendors I think to make the point that the buyer was getting freshly harvested meat or fowl. As I recall, if this kind of thing offended my sensibilities, I would have to leave the fun parts of downtown Paris because there was something dead hanging on display in tiny markets just about everywhere I stayed. Yes, this wasn't all of Paris, but the point is that it wasn't a rural area either, and for them, it was the norm. Everytime I turn on a cooking show there is some european, or asian market place with dead things for sale hanging in all their glory. For that matter here in the US, any time I visit the chinese sections of several major cities I walk by lots of this stuff hanging, forgot about that.

I'd be for going more european on this - banning the plastic wrapped packages of old and artifically reddened meats and tough old fowl in favor of having fresh air markets year round with dead stuff hanging so that store bought meat wasn't able to be disguised as tasty stuff when it is crap. Make aging meat at home legal, along with that the right to farm law for urban dwellers even if you only own a very small space. There is no difference between your neighbor's dead deer carcass and the stuff in the packages at the store; nor is there any difference between a plot of tomatoes and corn in your front yard and someone else's prized rows of roses there.

The dead deer I'd find way less offensive than say multiple parted out cars up on blocks, or dogs left lonely on a chain or in douchebags muddy back yard without shelter from the elements, and on and on - for me, there are way more things out there that disturb me to see, and they are all legal too.