NEWS: Waste Not, Want Not

CULTURE: Waste Not, Want Not

Some people eat roadkill. Sir Peter Maxwell Davies eats birds that fly into power lines near his home in Orkney. Unfortunately, swans are a protected species in the UK so you're not allowed to eat them, no matter how they died.

He sounds cutely befuddled. Other people might try to hide the evidence or bluff it out. Not our Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.

"Anyway, I was completely within the law by reporting this and making a delicious terrine."

Hehehe.

I bet that Sir Peter guy was an asylum seeker.

i've never seen someone manage to sound so british in just text

That sentence is going to keep me laughing for hours. The man is a knight.

Man's got to eat right?

haha! "cutely befuddled" indeed. i think i'm in love with this poor dude.

on another note, i've eaten deer that was killed by a car. the deer was gonna be dead whether we ate it or not. and it still tasted yummy. why waste good meat?

I dont understand the 'horrified' bit. Swans (back when they were more plentiful) were considered good eating, just like pheasant, goose, duck, quail, partridge.
Its not like he was poaching them.. I dont get it.

Peter Maxwell Davies isn't British aristocracy. He's a working class guy who grew up to be one of the three or four greatest British classical composers of his generation, and was knighted for it.

Fair play to the man, he's not a poacher. As the point may be, give it a decent burial or use it for food. Hmmm. As again, waste not.

RATH

hes cleaning up what would become a foul smelling maggot riddled carcass making use of the dead foul for himself and his cat and then disposing of the rest properly!! if only other elderly ppl were this resourceful

I don't know, but I think the world is better for it.

But he does sound like a complete loon.

All swans in the UK belong to the queen, so you're not allowed to do anything to them or you're in big trouble.

I agree with everyone who says it's silly that he might be getting punished for eating something that was already dead. I very much hope that he gets away with it or at most is given a token fine.

I just love the idea of offering the police a cup of coffee and some swan meat when they've come round to ask you about cooking swans.

Also, the idea of using *real swan wings* for a childrens nativity play is kind of horrid and great at the same time. As a vegetarian I don't know how I feel. I guess I'd rather they used wings of a bird that lived a real life and died accidentally than used feathers from intensively farmed and slaughtered animals, but I also think that they could probably do a pretty good job with paper.

So, they come pre-cooked?

Yes. His goose is cooked.

What a charming sweet man. I hope he doesn't get in any real trouble over this silly thing.

This is ridiculous and hopefully they let the harmless old man get on with his life.

Me too.

i dont see anything wrong with it. he didn't kill it.