Dimitri wrote:
>>
>> Other members of the family thought this was truly awful. My view is
>> that although if you smell it closely, it is different; but that it
>> is basically just a bit of *oxizidation* and it does not effect the
>> taste. Years ago they used to hang up 'game' outside for weeks.
>
> Then again people used to die at 30 from natural causes Including
> parasites.

Then again, a lot of people used to live very long lives. My mothers
ashes were interred in the cemetery of one of the older local churches
and visiting her grave I usually end up walking around looking at the
old grave markers. There are lots of infants and young people buried
there, but there are a surprising number of people who lived well into
their 80s and 90s. My sister in law is quite convinced that people of
previous generations lived longer and that the average live expectancy
is is skewed by infant mortality, childhood diseases, mothers dying
during childbirth, farm or industrial accidents, but that once someone
got past childhood and reproductive years they were likely to live a
long life.