The argument for eating bison (buffalo) meat

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M. Scott Taylor's 2007 working paper, "Buffalo Hunt: International trade and the virtual extinction of the North American Bison": www.nber.org/system/files/wor...
Dr. Taylor's final 2011 version of that article (not free): www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10...
David Smits' 1994 journal article, "The Frontier Army and the Destruction of the Buffalo: 1865-1883": history.msu.edu/hst321/files/...
A 2016 New York Times article about Ted Turner and the resurgence of bison meat: www.nytimes.com/2016/02/10/di...

[@maluinthe90s]

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

[@ThomasBomb45]

Vestigial wings

[@TheSlavChef]

There is a theory they dropped some time during evolution.

[@dinodumbo1365]

my disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined

[@mob8193]

I think they lose it by interbreeding with the cows

[@channelname4331]

funny big big funny hoo

[@benjaming4336]

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!

[@VidGamer123]

Good on your granddad!

[@user-xv3fl9pt3o]

Who owns it now?

[@benjaming4336]

@@user-xv3fl9pt3o primarily, a conservation organization and habitat called The Crane Trust south of Grand Island, Nebraska :)

[@punjabivirsa5348]

Wow!! I'm proud of him too! What a great thing

[@Aurmm]

Great for your grandfather :)

[@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.

[@gunner.]

@@Vel_D you might wanna look at the religious angle. Most Hindus consider the cow as sacred and therefore you cannot slaughter it.

[@gunner.]

@@dancooper6002 that concept applies to the west not to us. The "church" (or temple in our case) never interfered in how the country was ruled

[@gunner.]

@@dancooper6002 tell that to the US where the president takes the oath of office on a RELIGIOUS book and is sworn in by a bloody priest. Sermonize to the UK where the titular head of state must be a practising Anglican. Take your BS to Pakistan where a non Muslim cannot hold the office of president, prime minister or chief of army staff BY LAW. Don't you patronize us buddy.

[@James-un8io]

@@gunner. There are parts of India where Hindus do eat beef like Kerala

[@gunner.]

@@James-un8io and beef is legal in Kerala. States are free to have their own laws.

[@marshallscot]

Fun fact: in the 70's San Diego Zoo donated 14 bison to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, which while being a massive training ground also functions as a nature preserve. Despite not being native to the region, the small herd has thrived and is up to almost 100 individuals now.

[@andezong9565]

Still remember our combat instructors telling us that as tempting as it would be, we couldn’t shoot the bison if they come down range

[@baz5042]

I’ve heard two stories of them getting killed by mistake. One of those stories 5 of them got hit by 155mm shell.

[@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...."

[@jgrowland24]

😂

[@allstarwoo4]

Personally I think we should repopulate it because it was a native species we killed. But having them taste good too isn't a bad thing. Ironically RESPONSIBLE hunters are big conservationist.

[@probablytired5658]

reasons why i kidnap the parents, and not the kids.

[@SKyrim190]

There were giant turtles in the Galapagos Island whose meat was so delicious that supposedly even Darwin's expedition had trouble bringing a species because they couldn't resist eating it in their trip back home.

[@robinlillian9471]

@@SKyrim190 The sailors were used to bringing them along for food on the voyage back. BTW They are NOT turtles. They are tortoises, and they still live there. Some probably even were there when Darwin was. They live a LONG time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gal%C3%A1pagos_tortoise

[@jerrell1169]

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.”

[@SpecialJay]

You know, a friend of mine's a comedian, and he was doing a standup here in town. A bunch of people from the German consulate came down to see him, and they came backstage afterwards, and they said to him, "How come we don't have anyone as funny as you back home?" And my friend said, "Because you killed them all."

[@cheaptricked3148]

@@SpecialJay That's a pretty old line

[@182greendayfan]

@@SpecialJay das hast du dir aber schön zusammengereimt, kollege schnürschuh

[@SpecialJay]

@@cheaptricked3148 very, so of course, not mine: I don't know a comedian who performed for the German consulate.

[@melanieortiz712]

We give thanks everyday. Most of us treat Thanksgiving as a colonized genocidal day. A day of mourning.

[@xero2715]

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.

[@user-zp7jp1vk2i]

K. make very nice wallets. Canada calling. I owned one!!

[@Chris-ut6eq]

What does kangaroo taste like? beefy? porky? sheepy? What prevents commercial kangaroo farming?

[@post_low]

@@Chris-ut6eq honestly probably just consumer tastes i cant imagine there's that many people waiting to make roos apart of their diet

[@missourimongoose8858]

I'd like to try it, most of the meat I eat is wild so I'm always interested what other wild meat tastes like

[@YogaBallzHuge]

What an idiot

[@ianshear9246]

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

[@redbirdsrising]

All he was missing was "Long Live The Empire" and "Heterogeneity!"

[@sc29e]

@@redbirdsrising don't forget a "nnnnNNNNOOOO!"

[@ruskokollektiv5457]

And end on Tatanka Tataki, this was a Ragusea home run

[@pjoazure]

Yep. This is his masterpiece.

[@dannybrown5889]

Definitely a Ragusea masterpiece. He even snuck in a Lauren cameo

[@leontius5502]

Thank you Radam Agusea

[@nomadAKAskinfish]

very cool

[@Aurmm]

For what?

[@ichase8555]

@@Aurmm thank you nortiz von massau

[@Aurmm]

@@ichase8555 thank u casefich

[@MrFrog-rc3zx]

Big Regusea

[@philpaine3068]

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.

[@SammieSea]

mouth watering

[@benjaminbyrnison4882]

My Dad used to work next to a local Butcher up in Northern Ontario, and every year the butcher’s freezers would be packed full of moose, bear, and other wild game that the hunters sold him

[@user-zp7jp1vk2i]

@@benjaminbyrnison4882 well, I'm from N. Ontario (Vermillion Bay, Geraldton) and you are not allowed in Canada to sell wild game. You can GIVE it to First Nations, but not sell it.

[@iamcuttlefish]

​@@user-zp7jp1vk2iUsed To.

[@bsn0730]

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 😁

[@ryanprosper88]

Would that be near Kanab? I horsebacked on a ranch back in 04 with some Bison. That was a great memory

[@bsn0730]

@@ryanprosper88 yeah it wasn't far from Kanab, like a 35 minute drive

[@DarshanBhambhani]

"Like beef and pork have a baby" "And we eat the baby" that's it, Adam has finally lost it

[@rafaelgongrubatatta907]

lol

[@maenad1231]

I think he’s intentionally giving the KZbin Poop channels more sound bites to play around with Kano lmao

[@Sundara229]

@@maenad1231 The what now?

[@lifegoeson1007]

@@Sundara229😂

[@russ6541]

i dont know if hes ever had it all together 😭 always been slightly unhinged

[@curlygurly2112]

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.

[@WanderTheNomad]

Saw it coming when he compared it to tuna

[@Viraus2]

I'm not a fan of very rare beef steaks but that looked delicious

[@6kbps]

im not surprised since he seasons his cutting board to begin with

[@KanjoosLahookvinhaakvinhookvin]

It's so weird how he cooks it, but it's still mostly uncooked inside. There should be a common culinary term for that - incredibly common, not **rare** at all.

[@ilikevideos4868]

Why not? People eat raw beef all the time. Carpaccio and steak tartar, for example.

[@corey2232]

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.

[@nogames8982]

I know somebody that raised to them. You have to have special fencing. They will walk through most fences without even thinking about it. They're more wild than cattle. They take special trailers. But you get a lot more meat. And they taste good.

[@melon8909]

I don't remember subscribing for a history lesson, but I wasn't dissappointed.

[@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.

[@whompthereiti5]

And this is how the Catalina Wine Mixer came to be!

[@redbirdsrising]

@@whompthereiti5 You mean the Fucking Catalina Wine Mixer

[@9sunstar9]

Omg are they pigmy bison??

[@dirkofeel9821]

I'm pretty sure they're managed these days. At least that's what I heard the last time I went to Catalina. Like they recently culled a bunch of females or smt? BUt yeah, brought over for a movie.

[@MC-mk9wj]

@@redbirdsrising You mean they “adapted”, they didn’t evolve at all to be smaller. Adaptations are short term changes, and they can be drastic. They didn’t evolve at all, just like bird species can change beak shapes over short periods of time to deal with the environment.

[@cinemaocd1752]

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.

[@DynTravi]

They definitely have vastly more endurance then beef. I'm a old school butcher in South Dakota and just looking at esophagus size you can tell they can run for hours upon hours. Nearly 2.5x then size of a beef.

[@Tinky1rs]

@@DynTravi you mean windpipe/lungs? Don't really see how the eosophagus relates to endurance.

[@DynTravi]

@@Tinky1rs I meant everything I said. I'm the one wrist deep in them.

[@Tinky1rs]

@@DynTravi So what makes you relate endurance and eosophagus size? I don't get that part.

[@krankarvolund7771]

Well, before horses, Lakota and other plains natives had a very different way of life than we traditionally associate them with, instead of nomads following bisons herds and hunting them regulary, First, they were located in the great lake region, conflict with other natives drive them west, and second they hunt a little, ut they also gathered some wild rice and some corn. Most of the plains native were agriculturals sedentary nations, that grew corn in the plains and hunted some bisons when they passed by. It's really the horse in the XVIIIth century that totally changed the way of life of all these Natives ^^

[@graceholmquest3364]

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 :)

[@DukeTrout]

Bison also don’t overgraze like cattle do, so they don’t cause as much erosion. They don’t graze riparian areas, polluting streams the way that cattle do. They are quite good at coexisting with wolves and cougar without losing much if any of the herd, again unlike cattle. They don’t step in gopher holes and break their legs like cattle. Generally, it’s no surprise that the native species, bison, live better with the American West than the introduced species, cattle.

[@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.

[@Althestane]

I remember reading a theory that suggests the massive North American herds (bison, pigeons, others) were actually an anomaly that wouldn’t have naturally occurred. Instead, they may have been a temporary, unbalanced result of early western explorers and settlers. The thinking is that native peoples had been part of an ecosystem that kept these animal populations in check, either through hunting, human settlement, agriculture, or even intentional maintenance and manipulation of the environment. (brush fires to clear and expand prairie land, for example). When the first wave of western explorers came to the Americas, they unintentionally decimated native populations through foreign disease and the introduction of invasive species that that unbalanced the ecosystem. With the weakened presence of native peoples no longer keeping them in check, some animal populations exploded to unsustainable sizes over a few generations. Just in time to be witnessed by the 2nd and 3rd waves of explorers and settlers, who assumed that was the natural state of things because it was all new to them. It was an interesting read.

[@alkaliaurange]

@@Althestane That's really interesting, do you remember the source of that theory

[@hxhdfjifzirstc894]

And now the entire planet is 20° hotter.

[@curtisthomas2670]

Always a tragedy to read about an animal going extinct when it has happened so recently that sometimes the actual date the last one died is known. Or that an animal that was once numerous has reached where the actual amount surviving is precisely, or close to, known.

[@stijn4771]

@@alkaliaurange I read that too! Was in the book 1492, which explores the different cultures living in the americas before columbus arrived. And yes, the theory is pretty tight.

[@muraddiab6393]

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.

[@jeffreyau9751]

farm to table? nah, i prefer zoo to table

[@AxxLAfriku]

Let me get this straight: You comment something that is unrelated to the fact that I have two DANGEROUSLY DASHING girlfriends? Considering that I am the unprettiest KZbinr ever, having two hot girlfriends is really incredible. Yet you did not mention that at all. I am quite disappointed, dear mura

[@shinkshonkers3787]

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[@doritos6548]

@@AxxLAfriku Mans actually made the dude above me go insane with his dumb comments lmao

[@nopeyoudontknowmyname9153]

@@doritos6548 GIRLSSSSSSSSS.... lmao how is this account still here

[@pmessinger]

One element missing from the threat on the bison in America; before the trains turned the hunting into sport, Comanches had learned how to ride, manage and trade horses descended from horses left by French and Spanish expeditions exploring the "New World." After a while, huge herds of horses eventually competed with bison for the grasslands for which there hadn't been any competition other than deer, elk and the like, none of which ever who had comparable populations until herds of horses were raised for trade to transport the new emigrants, who didn't bring them on the sail.

[@KarlosEPM]

Cool bit of history. Thanks for sharing.

[@zainrizwan5421]

I love the hidden arrested development jokes Adam throws in every now and then.

[@tyreldor4942]

now we got a stew going

[@nooneimportant8991]

"And we ate the baby" the way he said it made it sound like the beginning of a horror movie

[@tomrogue13]

Lauren was so horrified

[@nooneimportant8991]

@@tomrogue13 Yep

[@thenarwhalmage]

more fuel for the YTPs

[@nooneimportant8991]

@@thenarwhalmage Oh, definitely

[@ronnickels5193]

Johnathan Swift would be proud.

[@joeyw.2976]

adam only made this video to make the "baby, you got a stew goin" reference and no one can say otherwise

[@florisende8015]

It's a stew, Michael! how much could it cost? 10 dollars?

[@Ashleigh_Alexander]

Such an underrated show

[@TheSlavChef]

Arrested Development, classic.

[@nijhum3429]

What

[@veerw]

@@nijhum3429 arrested development. It’s a TV show. It’s on Netflix you should watch it

[@Bornahorse]

That sigh and look from Lauren after "And we ate the baby" had me rolling XD

[@mitchellminer9597]

I like the Tataki idea. The leather belting in old factories wasn't just for spinning wheels. There was a central overhead shaft clear across the factory, with a steam engine or water wheel at one end to turn it. Dozens of belts took power down to the looms and jennies or lathes and grinders. Pre-electricity, most machinery was belt-driven by flat leather belts. (The pullies were domed slightly to keep the belts centered.) I knew that, but never thought about all the belts being bison hide. So thanks for that information. (I once helped an old farmer hook up a tractor to an old corn miller, using flat leather belting.) (The first gasoline engine was cranked by using a belt from an overhead shaft. When they turned on the petrol feed and it started exploding the gasoline, they realized they should have put a muffler on it, they should have vented it outside, and they should have had some way to stop the belt.)

[@tamarfrank9330]

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 🙂)

[@MrPh30]

Salmon was so much used in medevil era that it came laws that mandated how many times it could be used to feed workers a week to limit the use due to cost.

[@BastiatC]

Same is true for lobster, we had laws about how often lobster could be fed to servant or slaves

[@EnigmaticLucas]

Or how being obese was historically a sign of wealth, but now it’s a sign of poverty because of food deserts and stuff

[@Modernhabitus]

Yeah we really need to stop overfishing and really just take some time to fix upp the oceans

[@virtualabc7847]

Good idea

[@mev273]

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.

[@MrBankalicious]

He didn’t touch in the real reason why colonizers tried to kill off all bison tho. Sad tbh

[@rafaelborbacs]

@@MrBankalicious as a not american I always heard that colonizers tried to wipe all the bisons out to starve the indians, clearing their path to dig the ground for pursuing gold. Is that correct?

[@floo1465]

@@rafaelborbacs as an american, yeah, that’s what i heard. if an american school and non-american school are teaching the same thing, i’d bet it’s true. it wasn’t for gold though. the spanish, who wanted gold, mostly left bison alone, but american pioneers would kill off bison herds to kill off native americans.

[@bayaryan3400]

@@MrBankalicious bruh the natives would run the herds off cliffs lol

[@bayaryan3400]

Everyone here please do your research.

[@rockettony1014]

As a person who grew up having both wild game and domesticated meat. I would have to say Buffalo is my most preferred meat because it has some more flavor than beef. I do have native american blood in me being Cherokee, Mohican and Lenape I was taught the importance of the animal that we hunted. It's awesome seeing buffalo becoming bigger meat in our modern world of food!!! Great video!

[@davespringer5192]

I never leave comments, but I enjoy your videos so much, I felt an urge to here. You presentation, your thoroughness and everything else you bring are so unique and amazing. EXCELLENT WORK!

[@HissoriRenda]

I was at the edge of my seat when you were ramping into "you got a stew goin"

[@MrNoucfeanor]

rofl indeed.

[@ericromin]

Carl Weathers approves

[@hithere4719]

“I think I want my money back.” 😬

[@xenomorphbiologist-xx1214]

“Whoa whoa whoa, there’s still plenty of meat on that bone”

[@Doc-Holliday1851]

they'll yield a quarter ton of meat, unfortunately you'll only ever be able to carry 120lbs of it back to the wagon.

[@andrewsuryali8540]

That reminds me of an old joke. An American hunter and his native guide sailed the Mississipi on a boat. They saw an isolated bison nearby, so both left the boat and tried to get close. As they approached the bison, it spotted them and began to charge. The native guide immediately bolted and ran back to the river. The hunter looked disapprovingly at this display of cowardice, calmly lowered his rifle, took aim at the bison, and dropped it at the first shot. Then he stood up and called his guide back. The latter dejectedly came back. The hunter gestured at the bison and said, "See? That was easy." The guide replied, "Right. Now stupid white man try carry bison back to the boat himself."

[@CombatHD3]

Oregon Trail Reference lol

[@robinlillian9471]

You don't have to carry the whole bison anywhere. Just build a fire. Set up some poles. Cut the meat up into thin pieces. Smoke & dry it. While you're waiting for the meat to cure, make some soup with the bones & cook the organ meat for food. What's left should be MUCH easier to carry. It's a couple of days' delay, but in a good cause.

[@Carcosahead]

@@robinlillian9471 now now, if it’s so easy show us Robin, do it yourself

[@dwaynewladyka577]

@@robinlillian9471 The First Nations and Metis in Canada, and America did that with wild game, like bison (buffalo). The historical channel, Jas. Townshend & Son did an episode on drying bison meat, and even made a soup from it.

[@enriquecampa8377]

This video deserves to have like 10M views. Honestly this guy has become my favorite food KZbinr, and I follow a lot of ‘em

[@brianmcmanus4286]

Really diggin' your content, been binging for hours. Cheers!

[@joodge9453]

9:54 This is just about the last thing you would expect to see on a cooking channel.

[@kirayoshikage593]

I laughed way too much

[@virtualabc7847]

@@kirayoshikage593 I did more than u

[@nijhum3429]

@@virtualabc7847 I did more than u

[@rawturkey]

the adam ragusea yt poop fans are gonna have a good time with that clip

[@Dctctx]

@@rawturkey ytp

[@jakubstepien5645]

Adam "why do I flavor my cutting board instead of ironing my shirt" Ragusea

[@hxhdfjifzirstc894]

Why I starch my chest instead of my blouse.

[@swinepaste]

The only time I've ever had bison was a bison burger from a local restaurant, and it was a lot better than I expected. I would have thought the extremely lean meat would be detrimental, but in practice it just tasted somehow "meatier" than a typical beef burger. I'm sure some of this is due to the quality of the meat being used in general, but either way, it's delicious.

[@kerbalengineeringsystems7415]

One of my favorite bison facts is that a few of those wild bison (around a hundred) aren't living on the Great Plains, but on Catalina Island off the coast of Los Angeles. They were introduced there to film a scene in a western movie back in the twenties, and then left there, where they nearly overran the entire island. Eventually, the Catalina Island Conservancy started managing the size of the herd (locals will talk about the "year of the bison burger" on the island) to keep it down to about 150 from a high of 600. The funniest part, at least according to one version of the story? The scene where the bison appeared was deleted from the final cut.

[@a_little_disquised1101]

That “ wouwouwou she’s a laaadyyy” got me

[@Hamox]

It is the best thing in the video tbh

[@mislovelover31]

Adam:"he's famous, you've probably heard his name" me: "uhh a former president? steve irwin? mc donald?? Adam: *names a man I've never heard of, not even in passing*

[@cyberblah]

Ted Turner was kind of a Jeff Bezos of the 80s, with a bit of Elon Musk thrown in. He built a fortune off the new medium of cable television and a public image of being kind of nuts. His most famous creations were CNN and Cartoon Network. He largely disappeared from public view after selling Turner Broadcasting System to Time-Warner in 1996, so only U.S. 80s kids or older will be likely to know his name, but Millennials probably grew up watching his cable stations.

[@llaughridge]

CNN, Cartoon Network, Atlanta Braves, Turner Field (the former Braves stadium in Atlanta), TCM (Turner Classic Movies) on cable, Ted's Montana Grill restaurant chain, the controversy of Turner Media 'colorizing' old black-and-white movies and TV shows, married to Jane Fonda, owns huuuuge areas of land in Montana. Jane once said "Ted believes the best way to save nature is to buy it."

[@mislovelover31]

@@llaughridge out of all of those things I've heard of cnn, cartoon network and jane fonda lmao you americans are wild

[@porsche911sbs]

Adam probably (perhaps mistakenly) assumes his audience is knowledgeable and cultured enough to know who Ted Turner is

[@llaughridge]

@@mislovelover31 Correction: you HAD only heard of those three, NOW you've heard of the others I mentioned. Isn't learning fun?

[@victor_mutt]

Thanks from a Mdewakanton Dakota Native, your covered the historical aspect very well in a neutral, respectful and concise manner.

[@theconfusedkulu-ya-ku7587]

6:26 that is a fancy way to say genocide

[@bankcolgate2155]

As an Oklahoma native, this video was really cool to watch. We have several local restaurants around here where you can get an excellent bison steak/stew/burger etc.

[@jake9705]

I'm amused that Adam's example he chose for "beefalo" was in fact an animal packing some serious beef 😳

[@jasongibson1225]

I wouldn't mind getting beefalo burgers lol

[@TheAndersDanilet]

Haha! “Baby, you got a stew going!” Great Carl Weathers quote.

[@memowilliam9889]

😂

[@deeburks]

There are a lot of bison around here - in fact I just had some backstrap from one that was harvested from the Vermejo Park herd(Ted's place). So freaking delicious. They roam more than half a million acres here in New Mexico so not really 'confined' like cattle. They live great lives in fact in a traditional bison area. However, they are very wild, difficult animals and much bigger than people assume. I can't even tell you the number of times I've seen touristas standing right up against a barbed wire fence taking pics of the herd. I'm like, "you understand that fence is just theoretical"... they have no clue that animal can kill them in two seconds.

[@ericzhan3454]

"Until people killed them all" seems to be a reoccurring theme in history.

[@RaptorJesus]

Human history is one long, glacial movement towards treating each other slightly-less-shitily, interspersed with periods of intense regression(see Nazi Germany, especially when compared to its predecessors).

[@TheVietnameseCatGoblin]

Gastropod did a fantastic podcast on the species we humans ate to extinction, would highly recommend

[@RoyalKnightVIII]

And by "people" he should've said European genociders

[@RaptorJesus]

@@RoyalKnightVIII I mean, Africans, Asians and so on have all done their fair share of awful shit. It's one of the uniting facets of humanity: We're all kinda terrible.

[@remien]

Human is very good at killing

[@drablord448]

I knew we hadn’t been good to bison, but that image at 8:35...Jesus.

[@denise-jordan]

I will never get over that image

[@vegardjohannessen3009]

Very heartbreaking. Especially when you hear that they would just shoot them for the hides and leave the meat. We really are something else.

[@melanieortiz712]

Then you'd really lose it to know the shit the US and Can has done to us Natives just the past 100yrs. Christianity has been apart of the problem.

[@vegardjohannessen3009]

@@melanieortiz712 Oh i'm well aware. I did some work for the akisq̓nuk when I visited Canada. I also travelled to Inuvik and Tuktoyaktuk and I met some of the lovliest first nation people. What white men did to the first nations is a dark stain on history.

[@melanieortiz712]

@@vegardjohannessen3009 still doing. Our genocide and issues of illegal occupation and oppression are perpetual issues.

[@breezeless_7665]

4:34 "taste like, if pork and beef had a baby" "and then we ate the baby" LMAO

[@The_sinner_Jim_Whitney]

I love bison. I use it in place of ground beef in chili, meat sauces, and meatloaf/meatballs, and even roasts and steaks now and again when I can get them. Makes great stew, the steaks can be a little tough, but VERY flavorful. Just a lot more flavor than beef without being very ‘gamy’. Real good stuff. Pretty good for you, too.

[@tylervue306]

Adam’s videos have the perfect balance of being entertaining, educational, and professional. It’s great!

[@dkerkowoutdoors4623]

This has by far been the best video on North American bison that has been posted recently. It truly hurts me to think of the destruction of the great herds, as a hunter I couldn’t fathom the darkness of the seen. I can’t imagine the ability to kill thousands of bison a day and don’t even want to. Thanks for reading

[@beluwuga]

Well.. we can’t judge the past in a way that they can’t judge us, they got problems we don’t have and that we wouldn’t understand. If we got millions of bison roaming around the highway, there might be initiatives to lowered their population too.

[@FranktheSkeleton]

@@beluwuga the main incentive was to starve the natives, that's literally it.

[@pigeonfood420]

yo i think abt this wrt passenger pigeons so often :( hard to believe it was once the most abundant bird in north america

[@dkerkowoutdoors4623]

@@pigeonfood420 never underestimate the destructive ability of man

[@mariocesare7669]

@@dkerkowoutdoors4623Agreed! Man can be extremely destructive. However, in my opinion, given the numbers and time frame, the Passenger Pigeon was not hunted to extinction. The species more than likely died out from a virus or other inadvertantly introduced biological pathogen.

[@z71chev34]

Did you capture the footage of the Bison at Dauset Trails Nature Center in Jackson Georgia?

[@TomJones-tx7pb]

A few years ago I was passing through Montana and they had a bison reservation that they culled occasionally. The year before they sold bison in an auction with no minimum bid. Some sold for $5. Needless to say the rules were changed.

[@DJ_NSG]

"And baby, you got a stew going" What a brilliantly Obscure Arrested Development reference

[@speedocowboy]

So obscure that there's dozens of comments commenting on it. Dozens!

[@demetreasandrews]

My friend and I went to burger King with people who never saw the show before. My friend said "you know you can get a refill on any drink you want here and it's free" I raised my burger and said "it's a wonderful restaurant!" They looked as us like we were freaks.

[@pkre707]

There’s always references in the banana stand.

[@alsaunders7805]

I must not have seen it, I don't recognize the line or any of the comments. 🤔🍻

[@MarkFaldborg]

That cow was optimizing process Adam. That cow is a genius.

[@timtarbet4594]

The same thing was happening to some species (or subspecies, can’t remember which) of rhino that was being poached to extinction. The ranchers would feed, care for, then harvest the horn without harming the animal. Just a tranquilizer nap, some quick work with a sawzall, and done. The ranchers could put food on the table, and the rhinos were safe from poachers. Everyone won. Then some international “conservationists” came in and raised a big stink about it. Long story short, it became illegal for these ranchers to keep doing what they were doing, so they had to release all their animals. Most of, if not all those animals are now dead from illegal poaching. Kinda reminds me of PETA, to be honest.

[@Woodswalker96]

Where did you get footage of the captive bison @Adam Ragusea?

[@marmjtin]

Something similar is happening in Argentina with alligators. They started selling the meat; part of the ones that they raise are eaten and part are re introduced to the wild life. It is actually working which is bizarre.

[@WanderTheNomad]

Selfish reasons are the best reasons to do selfless things.

[@pedrochiapello]

En serio? No me había enterado. Algún día tengo que probar jaja.

[@marmjtin]

@@pedrochiapello sí, en corrientes los producen. Dice que las empanadas de yacaré son ricas.

[@krankarvolund7771]

There's always better chances to get humans to do things, if it's not purely selfless ^^ Even our conservation efforts are non sensical, the symbolf of WWF is a panda, do you think it's because pandas are a valuable species for the environment? Or because they are cute? XD

[@robinlillian9471]

poizd: Just as well to eat some of the alligators. Alligators used to be rare in Florida, but they reproduce VERY quickly, and now every body of water is dangerous again. They even sometimes take up residence in swimming pools.

[@garrycollins3415]

Had to smile when you said "a real vidalia onion". It's amazing how that small Georgia region can fill grocery stores across the country.

[@griff7533]

Nice Arrested reference. I saw it coming and was so glad you followed through haha.

[@obliviouz]

Just as a possibly useful note, fish used in sashimi like tuna and salmon are typically sold in different grades, and ones destined to be eaten raw are generally different grades from those destined to be eaten cooked, because those eaten raw have to be more carefully processed, packaged, and shipped so that they are free from other parasites (not just surface bacteria). Look up "salmon worms" on youtube as an example. I'm utterly unsure whether the same applies to bison meat, but just to be safe, I would only buy from the most well-known and recommended (and likely expensive) bison meat suppliers if you intend to eat them raw like in sashimi or tataki as Adam did here.

[@taotzu1339]

By a special process, don't you just mean that the meat was frozen and kept under dry ice condition (under -78C) so it kills the parasites and their eggs?

[@sillyslambo8527]

I don't think I've ever taken to a channel as quickly, nor have I witnessed a creator carve a niche for their content as seamlessly as you managed Adam. From your quick informative broiled cookies vid to my favourite "foodtuber" and culinary educator. Cheers!

[@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)

[@ajl8198]

I wish we could go back in time and have a more harmonious existence the settlers could’ve learned a lot from the Indigenous People . Thank you so much for sharing your story it is really fascinating I would love to learn more about it.

[@sandrastreifel6452]

If only... We need to do what we can now to heal our relationship.

[@ajl8198]

@@sandrastreifel6452 I l agree Completely. The treatment of the indigenous people in North America has been shameful to say the least I would love to know how and what we can do to help now

[@sonofaquack6987]

@@ajl8198 you think? How much you think modern times (like 2021, not ~1900s-2000) would change?

[@007bistromath]

really wish you guys had won tbh, just as long as it wouldn't be the comanches, I hear they managed to do war even worse than white people

[@romecottrell4558]

Wow ! That's something that I wasn't aware of about the American bison 🦬 and that's sad that the railroads and the U.S Government help devastated many of these wonderful bison 🦬 from the U.S. Yet I'm glad to know that today there's some bison 🦬 are still living on reserve ranches in parts of the U.S.A and Canada 🇨🇦.

[@t_c5266]

3:19 now that was a good arrested dev reference

[@person9513]

B E E F A L O

[@spooksmcgee8790]

What did the Bison say when he left his family? "Bye son"

[@fpgamer4566]

I did not know that I needed this comment, but now I do

[@TheSlavChef]

Damn, you were first :D

[@fifalord581]

bro.....this one actually hurt

[@Aurmm]

^o^

[@nolancrackel]

or... what did the bison say when he dropped of his kid at school

[@GeneralTyran]

I knew the Ted Turner trivia because I lived near his buffalo ranch in Montana when I was a kid

[@violetlambrou3191]

Antelope Island located in the Great Salt Lake has a heard of Bison introduced by the Mormon pioneers. Also, Queen Elizabeth meat was wild, never domestic.

[@Giganfan2k1]

9:36 as a biologist... Yes. We are an apex predator. Even if you took out all of our technological superiority we could still be the apex predator because we are social, and the average human can run marathon. Not many animals can jog to the distances we can. There are still tribes that will run mega fauna down as a relay race. Which ends with the animal having a heat stroke as the humans crowd around it. It is pretty brutal but if all you got is sticks and rocks you found on the ground... This is how hominids had been the top predator for arguably a very long time (million years)?

[@Giganfan2k1]

As a hunter... I am happy we have rifles/bows. If we could talk to the animals, they would also probably like us shooting them from 100 yards away. Taking only good clean shots. Rather than being chased down by a pack of humans/wolves, or a big cat jumping off of a tree.

[@ethanpatton597]

I’m native and LOVE bison. It’s soooo good and I’m happy that farmed bison is becoming more available in the states.

[@jitt992]

native to where? lol

[@azurethegolden7928]

@@jitt992 native American you must not be American

[@jitt992]

@@azurethegolden7928 nah i am but look at their profile picture they don't look like no native american 😂

[@_wanted_outlaw3007]

@@jitt992 he looks Asian if anything, and his only playlist is flying the Russian flag many times so I can say he's definitely 100% Native American.

[@jitt992]

@@_wanted_outlaw3007 lol

[@CraigUntlNytTym]

Whenever Adam eats slices of steak and stares into the camera he looks like golum and the meat is his precious. Edit: I don't blame him, It looks tasty.

[@VegasBubba565]

thank you for clarifying

[@ob1coyote]

Used to be a place on the edge of a freeway in Houston that served Buffalo burgers and they tasted amazing. That was over 25 years ago. I really want to try it again.

[@navytav]

I like the Arrested Development reference: "Baby, you got a stew goin'!"

[@ultimategotea]

Adam is DEFINITELY aware of the YTPs and is just feeding them content

[@dxk65]

As a Native American I'm glad more people are finding ways to enjoy game meat. The best example I like to give is when you eat a steak or other cut from a very healthy elk you feel like Captain America with how energized and just ready to go you are.

[@kaitlyn__L]

I had elk sausage once, I think it was Norwegian? Maybe Danish? It was good. Would be neat to try more

[@shakoiatenhawithacrossjaco9051]

A native calling himself “native american” and feeling like captain america seems sus

[@lobsterboywonder]

@@shakoiatenhawithacrossjaco9051 probably one of those people who are white but proudly proclaim that they're Cherokee. As if your 2% Cherokee makes you native American it's the only tribe those people know for some reason. but if someone mentioned something else I might give it some merit. I'm a native And I have 2 % asian. So what, am I asian? Should I emigrate to china? Sorry but I knew someone who tried to push to get "his" percap and got laughed at, he's mad and is trying to do some sort of lawsuit.

[@OffRampTourist]

@@lobsterboywonder I'm trying to identify my grandfather's tribe so my mom can relearn the language he taught her when she was his last baby girl. It would mean a lot to her and be good for her mental health. (She's 85.) I think he was saying he was of the Alabama tribe but was thought to be saying he was from Alabama (which he was but maybe both). Anyway, once he got to Oklahoma history turned to lore and all she remembers is the rhythm and lilt of their secret language. It's an interesting project and she's excited about it and that's reason enough for me.

[@groooah]

I had an elk burger in Norway and did not eat anything else for three days. It definitely keeps you satiated. 😂

[@lilykep]

There are several large herds of beefalo near where I used to live in Oklahoma. My dad used to watch them graze from our front porch in the mornings while he was having his coffee. There were some pure bison herds too, but they tended to be pastured separately a little farther away from people.

[@originaltommy]

Had my first bison burger in a pub in Banff, Alberta, Canada in 93. Fabulous.

[@spartaninvirginia]

"and baby, you got a stew goin'!" "...I.... Think I'd like my money back..."

[@sofaking1611]

There's still plenty meat on that bone.

[@obiomachukwuocha4918]

This might sound weird but can you do a video of how to properly/scientifically clean after cooking/eating? How to wash dishes, basically. Should you soak? should you rinse/drain your sponge with cold water? When should you use an iron sponge? Do you have to use soap if there's only cookie crumbs on the plate? Etc.

[@alexmoufarrige7352]

would be super useful ngl

[@HylianAlph]

Lol are you gonna comment this on every video until he does it

[@Apotheosister]

Now this is a good suggestion!

[@K1LD3R]

Yeah, very comprehensive. Always wondered

[@Default78334]

Put it in a dishwasher

[@OBSaxman]

"And baby, you got yourself a stew going" Thanks for the Carl Weathers reference time to run through arrested development again 😁

[@popomomo12]

Oh Carl Weathers, nice reference there. Had me dying 🤣😭

[@mathew00]

I'll always remember one of my middle school teachers told me about a cave painting depicting a herd of Buffalo taking multiple days to pass the artist. Amazing and sad 😥

[@hxhdfjifzirstc894]

Are ya gonna cry on your little pillow? I bet it's a Hogg Pillow.

[@JustinRay-qi1zm]

that cool to imagine

[@mathew00]

No I'm not going to cry but that same teacher reminded us several times that history repeats itself. So, let's do a thought experiment. Let's say some ultra powerful alien adolescent find him/herself at our planet. Not understanding (or caring about) human emotions, feelings or connections he/she finds something curious about the human brain. They want to collect all the brains on the planet so they create a small robot army that roams the planet paralyzing groups of humans so they can slice the human skulls up to extract the brains while the other humans watch until it's there turn. A scenario like this is completely possible. Us humans have ignorant children because it takes time to learn things. Why wouldn't that be true to some ultra-powerful alien civilization? In fact, that young alien could simply look at our internet and pull the story about the buffalo. They could use that part of our history where we killed hundreds of thousands of Buffalo just for the hide leaving the rest of the animal to rot and make a case for them to lay waste the entire human race. - Moral of the story. Go look in the mirror. Your brain could be the next wagyu A5.

[@heathlouis4529]

@@hxhdfjifzirstc894 what a nice productive and wholesome comment

[@shubes4502]

9:51 I don't know Adam, getting two things done at once seems like a pretty genius thing to me

[@WanderTheNomad]

Perhaps _we're_ the idiots and the bison are laughing at us for not being able to multitask. 🤔

[@nhmooytis7058]

Try it and see how your girlfriend or boyfriend likes it.

[@nhmooytis7058]

@@ThatGuy-kz3fx so?

[@tronche2cake]

he's a millionaire optimising his time

[@peterm3306]

One of the cooler things I've seen before were the Bison herds at Philmont Scout Ranch, the second largest purebred herd just after Yellowstone.

[@davestambaugh7282]

Nothing was more help to native Americans in hunting bison than the introduction of horses. How could you leave that out of this story?

[@gleann_cuilinn]

While keeping the bison as livestock may be good for the species, we should think of conservation in terms of ecosystems, not just single species. The plains ecosystem is still depleted of bison and is suffering as a result, and indigenous people are still struggling to gain food sovereignty.

[@shredded_lettuce]

Exactly. They are a crucial species for an entire bioregion.

[@ShiningSakura]

Cows also eat grasses to the roots killing them off, where as bison do not and help an ecosystem thrive.

[@michaelsorensen7567]

How are you going to un deplete bison if you merely turn them loose for the wolves to eat? "... Struggling to gain food sovereignty" like they were before the colonials came? Are you going to mention how some of the indigenous would chase whole herds of buffalo off a cliff to get one or two worth of meat harvested and leave the rest to spoil?

[@cmo5807]

@@ShiningSakura I can find nothing on this can you provide me with proof if you dont mind?

[@ShiningSakura]

@@cmo5807 there was a video on PBS wyoming farm to fork I believe was the program name and they talked about goats, cows and bison and their impact on grazing pastures and ecosystem in the grasslands. Saw it on youtube.

[@calvinnesbitt403]

The photo of the man standing on a mountain of bison skulls at 8:33 will stay with me for a long time. Any complex life elsewhere in this galaxy is doomed.

[@curtisthomas2670]

Certainly very disturbing

[@NeostormXLMAX]

As if, if there were any complex life forms they would be standing on our heads. Also keep in mind that as civilizations evolve they change structureally, obviously no one piles heads of bison in 2021, and if an alien civilization is at the point of space travel they wouldn’t be like that ether

[@VallornDeathblade]

Those Popplers won't harvest themselves!

[@ev6558]

@@NeostormXLMAX Any complex life form would likely have similar events in their own history. This whole "any advanced alien race would be perfect and look down on humanity for not being perfect" is such an obnoxious and played-out trope. If Native Americans had advanced technologically and civilized then they would likely have done similar things. They didn't have any kind of superior way of living, EVERY culture at one point "lived in harmony with nature" because they didn't have the means or the necessity to consume any more.

[@jonmartinson6830]

Incidentally, wifey says the best meat we ever had was a bison ribeye, cooked in the smoker and served Delmonico Style with melted herbal butter.

[@mikedrop4421]

Man the first time I ate a Ted's I was amazed at how delicious bison was. The beef/pork analogy was exactly how I described it. It has a bit of a bacon flavor to it.

[@Brickfilmer125]

I really hope he seasoned his cutting board when he cooked that bison steak.

[@shannondore]

😆I just watched that episode the other day.🤣

[@TheSlavChef]

What do you call a bison that is good at telling lies? Bluffalo.

[@TheSlavChef]

@@busimagen I know, I have watched Sam from Weindover explaining that :D

[@eddievhfan1984]

Now Adam's got me curious about bison nigiri from that last preparation.

[@theophilusthistler5885]

I wonder if there would be any flavour difference (stew/ braise cuts) when pickling in vinegar?

[@fxm5715]

"Some reply guy." and +1 Tom Jones reference. "Steak and Pork had a baby, and we ate the baby."

[@sierra565]

I had BBQ buffalo meat once in my life when I was 5 years old. I am now 25 and my mouth still waters at the thought of it.

[@yateswebb]

Me, at the top of the food chain, realizing that everyone else is just taking virtually inexhaustible energy sources that I cannot digest and converting them into proteins and fats that I can live on

[@FelixWheatfield]

Tatonka Tataki is a real dish with bison seared with soy, garlic, and ginger and served with zhug sauce. It can be found at the Fusion Grill in Winnipeg, MB.

[@Kerbros100]

9:57 I dont know Adam. I feel that we can learn alot from this cow. He is on another level.

[@KarlosEPM]

+1 Some mad multitasking right there.