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You Are Hereby Invited To A “Crow Banquet” To Which This Newspaper Proposes To Invite Newspaper Editorial Writers, Political Reporters And Editors, Including Our Own, Along With Pollsters, Radio Commentators And Columnists ... Main Course Will Consist Of Breast Of Tough Old Crow En Glace. (You Will Eat Turkey.)

An invitation of NY Times introducing crow as a dish, the crow in the invitation is a form of sarcasm because the crow is seen as an insult

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CROW POPULATION

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CROW POPULATION NETHERLANDS

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Literally eating a crow is traditionally seen as being distasteful; the crow is one of the birds listed in Leviticus chapter 11 as being unfit for eating. Scavenging carrion eaters have a long association with the battlefield, “They left the corpses behind for the raven, never was there greater slaughter in this island,� says the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

Along with buzzards, rats, and other carrion-eating scavenging animals, there is a tradition in Western culture going back to at least the Middle Ages of seeing them as distasteful (even illegal at times) to eat, and thus naturally humiliating if forced to consume against one’s will.

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Also, eat dirt or humble pie . Be forced to admit a humiliating mistake, as in When the reporter got the facts all wrong, his editor made him eat crow. The first term’s origin has been lost, although a story relates that it involved a War of 1812 encounter in which a British officer made an American soldier eat part of a crow he had shot in British territory. Whether or not it is true, the fact remains that crow meat tastes terrible. The two variants originated in Britain. Dirt obviously tastes bad. And humble pie alludes to a pie made from umbles, a deer’s undesirable innards (heart, liver, entrails).

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“I kin eat a crow, but I be darned if I hanker after it.”

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Crow a la cart Ingredients:

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12 Half crow breasts 2 Big unions 2 Small chillies 2 Pieces of celery 5 Tomatoes 3 Cloves of garlic 750ml Poultry bouillon 1/2 tsp. Tabasco 1/4 tsp. Sugar 1/2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce 1 tsp. Thyme 1 tsp. Lemon juice

1. Smeer is the cleaned up crows breast in butter and sheer it in the pan until it s brown.

2. Remove them from the pan for a moment and put the then put it aside.

3. Cut the unions and celery in slices of about two 2 centimeters / 1/2 inches.

4. Peel the tomatoes, remove the seeds and cut it in small pieces.

5. Chop the two pieces of chillies and garlic into fine pieces and put it together with the grease of the crow breasts. . Put everything together in one big pan and add the bouillon.

7.Afterwards add the rest of the ingredients except the salt and pepper.

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10. At the very end season it with salt and pepper.

11. This recipe could be perfectly served with rice.

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Farmers

“The crows are causing a lot of trouble for the farmers.

They are poking through the plastic in order to get to the corn and destroy the harvest by picking the seeds and eating young plants.�

During out hunting spree we encountered the intelligence of the crow, like any hunter it’s always good to study the animal behavior your are trying to catch. We found a research from the university of Auckland, dedicated to the research into the behavior of crows.

Some interesting facts out of the research papers of the university: The social structure of New Caledonian crows

J.C. Holzhaider*, M.D. Sibley, A.H. Taylor, P.J. Singh, R.D. Gray, G.R. Hunt Department of Psychology, University of Auckland We followed a particular crow for one session per day over usually several hours; sessions were both in the morning and afternoon to detect any differences in diurnal behaviour. When we observed the radiotagged crow directly we noted its behaviour and the presence of any other crows nearby.

Food sharing has been suggested to play an important role in the development of social bonds in other corvids such as jackdaws and rooks

Nests were built ca. 3e8 m above ground, but still well below the canopy. Females laid two or three eggs and incubation lasted ca. 18 days. Only females incubated and brooded chicks, but males fed brooding females regularly on or close to the nest. From a total of nine chicks hatched by the four pairs, only two survived to “edging (22%). The two surviving chicks left the nest 26 and 30 days after hatching.

One pair built a replacement nest and started incubating after both chicks of the !rst brood had died, but the second nest also failed. Reasons for chick mortality appeared to be mostly adverse weather conditions and predation. We observed three juveniles over 12 months of age from different families begging vigorously and subsequently being fed (at 14, 14 and 20 months). At 20 months of age, we observed -/oy being fed by both his parents even though they were raising a new juvenile. We never observed any bird other than the bio- logical parents feeding juveniles or contributing directly in any other way to their upbringing.

Whenever one or more crows landed on a table we recorded the time of the visit and the individuals that were present. Visits were separated by at least 2 min when no crow was on the table. Although a 2 min interval was relatively short, on only a small percentage of occasions did we record more than one visit to a particular table by the same crow within a 10 min period (ca. 3% of all observations across target males in families 1e6). Therefore, a crow that had visited a table to feed, or found no food present, usually went elsewhere to forage before returning. Visits were recorded in notebooks, videotaped with a hand-held camera, or videotaped remotely in conjunction with a motion detector. Whenever we observed a target bird away from tables we also recorded the location, time and whether a family member was present.

A social network would also include contacts based on agonistic interactions between individuals. This might have resulted in crows sometimes avoiding a feeding table because of intolerance to other bird’s that were using it. Such cases are by their nature very dif!cult to assess and are not accounted for in this study. The reason why nonfamily juveniles were tolerated more than nonfamily adults might be that juveniles commonly display submissively when in close proximity to a nonfamily adult and are therefore less of a potential threat. Adult males might therefore tolerate submissive juveniles on the same feeding table even if they were unknown to them.

Crows Lure

“The crows will see other crows from a distance and will think it’s a safe place.”

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The sarcastic treat After incumbent Harry Truman defeated Thomas Dewey in the 1948 United States presidential election despite many media predictions of a Dewey victory, the Washington Post sent a telegram to the victor:

You Are Hereby Invited To A “Crow Banquet” To Which This Newspaper Proposes To Invite Newspaper Editorial Writers, Political Reporters And Editors, Including Our Own, Along With Pollsters, Radio Commentators And Columnists ... Main Course Will Consist Of Breast Of Tough Old Crow En Glace. (You Will Eat Turkey.)

A dish of crow Ingredients: 12 Half crow breasts 2 Big unions 2 Small chillies 2 Pieces of celery 5 Tomatoes 3 Cloves of garlic 750ml Poultry bouillon 1/2 tsp. Tabasco 1/4 tsp. Sugar 1/2 tsp. Worcestershire sauce 1 tsp. Thyme 1 tsp. Lemon juice

1. Smeer is the cleaned up crows breast in butter and sheer it in the pan until it’s brown.

2. Remove them from the pan for a moment and put the then put it aside.

3. Cut the unions and celery in slices of about two 2 centimeters / 1/2 inches.

4. Peel the tomatoes, remove the seeds and cut it in small pieces.

5. Chop the two pieces of chillies and garlic into fine pieces and put it together with the grease of the crow breasts.

6. Put everything together in one big pan and add the bouillon.

7.Afterwards add the rest of the ingredients except the salt and pepper.

8. Put it all on a high fire towards the point when its starting to boil, then put the flames a bit lower even better a hotplate so that it can still slowly cook.

9. keep this all in this state for about 4 hours. Though keep a look out that it doesn’t vaporizes to much, or else you have to add some water.

10. At the very end season it with salt and pepper.

11. This recipe could be perfectly served with rice.

THE TASTE TEST

RESULTS CROW 30%

CHICKEN 70%

This test was all about figuring the mindset of the people what they think about eating crows on a normal bases. Although the meat on the plate was 100% chicken some people got scared of the idea of eating crow, but production opens a lot of doors.

One of the tasters told that she didn’t want to taste it, because she wasn’t shure if it was tested.

If it was presented in a big supermarket brand show would probably think diffirent about it.

From the around fifty people we asked 30% didn’t mind to try crow and 70% rather had chicken

Why not? A crow is equally as good as any other animal.

It’s always okey to try something new right?

where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.

I already see that the crow is bitter, I don’t like bitter.

“Some traps are forbidden according to wildlife management. There are strict rules after you catch a crow�

SOURCE

NY times invitation 2010 http://sa.peteyproductions.net/effort/2011/05/08/the-new-jim-crow-prisons-racism-the-war-on-black-people/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_crow The social structure of New Caledonian crows J.C. Holzhaider*, M.D. Sibley, A.H. Taylor, P.J. Singh, R.D. Gray, G.R. Hunt Department of Psychology, University of Auckland http://www.crowbusters.com/recipes.html http://www.gunafood.com/recipes/Crow.html http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/eat+crow http://www.idiomeanings.com/idioms/eat-crow/ Harry Truman speech 1948 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corvus_(genus) Winkler, Robert (8 August 2002). “Crow Makes Wire Hook to Get Food”.

National Geographic. Retrieved 6 February 2011. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3801687?origin=crossref&seq=1#page_scan_ tab_contents Crow Meat Comes Back -- Boosts Sexual Potency? http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090609-eating-crowvideo-ap.html http://icwdm.org/handbook/birds/bird_e33.pdf

REFLECTION

For our next step could have been going deeper into our subject. We definitely think we succeded and we clearly overlapped the two assignments. The information when we filmed for the documentary was quite useful to dive deeper into the subject for Mike. Thats how we got inspired towards the farmers, in which they are finding new ways to scare away the crows.

Because we could function so well in a group we could divide our tasks. We’re quite lucky that every member in our group possesses different qualities so that we could complete our story.

If we look back we can definitely say we are quite satisfied with the results, although there are always things we could improve. For example we would would have love to experiment a lot more with crows on different recipes. due the mistake was that we started quite late on preparing the crows, maybe if we would have started sooner on tasting, we would have gain more experience and insight. Maybe because of this we could have gone even further into the subject.

Eventually we used the time we had usefully to translate the subject to the public.

Because of this we didn’t isolate ourselves between the farmer, hunter and cook.

Because of our research on the market we gained information about the interest in crow, although we could have prepared ourselves how to coop with the different reaction of the people that tasted.

What did happen during the research is that we got triggered to involve the consumer more towards our research project. Thats how we came up with the DIY platform, where interested people can share there knowledge about traps and recipes in our network.

At the end of this periode our first cook cancelled our appointment and did want any further involvement. Because of the situation we had to find a replacement. In the future we have to prepare ourselves better with a backup plan.