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How long can you eat an animal after it dies?

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Most of the meat nowadays takes 4 to 10 days from the time the animal is slaughtered until it reaches the market to be sold. In this period, muscles make the transformation into what we know as meat. This period is known as the “maturation time”. In veal, however, the maturation time lasts from 1 to 3 weeks. 27 окт. 2015 г.


How long is a dead animal good for?

The decomposition of an animal's dead body will take anywhere from six months to fifteen years before it becomes simply bones. However, it is normally determined by the location and manner in which the animal is buried. If your pet was buried in a crypt, for example, it would take even longer to decompose.

Can you eat an animal after it dies?

Yes, that's true. Dead animals no longer have any circulation maintaining tissue material like muscles and organs and pathogens may increase without internal regulation and would consequently be very toxic. Typically the meat gets rancid if not refrigerated right after death.

Can you eat meat from an animal that died of old age?

If you know enough about Why it died, how long ago it died and the health of the animal, meat from “naturally dead” animals is just as edible as from slaughtered animals.

Can you eat an animal after rigor mortis?

Actualy, meat becomes good only after rigor mortis. Fresh meat is not particulary good and that is why it is purposely left to mature for few days. It becomes tender, aquires flavours and so on.

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