{"id":101960,"date":"2022-04-22T12:32:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T12:32:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/can-humans-eat-possum\/"},"modified":"2022-04-22T12:32:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T12:32:03","slug":"can-humans-eat-possum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/can-humans-eat-possum\/","title":{"rendered":"Can humans eat possum?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_17 counter-hierarchy counter-decimal ez-toc-grey\">\n<div class=\"ez-toc-title-container\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-title-toggle\"><a class=\"ez-toc-pull-right ez-toc-btn ez-toc-btn-xs ez-toc-btn-default ez-toc-toggle\" style=\"display: none;\"><i class=\"ez-toc-glyphicon ez-toc-icon-toggle\"><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<nav><ul class=\"ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1\"><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/can-humans-eat-possum\/#Can_humans_eat_possum\" title=\"Can humans eat possum?\">Can humans eat possum?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/can-humans-eat-possum\/#What_does_possum_meat_taste_like\" title=\"What does possum meat taste like?\">What does possum meat taste like?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/can-humans-eat-possum\/#Why_do_people_not_eat_possums\" title=\"Why do people not eat possums?\">Why do people not eat possums?<\/a><\/li><li class=\"ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2\"><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/can-humans-eat-possum\/#Can_possums_make_you_sick\" title=\"Can possums make you sick?\">Can possums make you sick?<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Can_humans_eat_possum\"><\/span>Can humans eat possum?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Can Humans Eat Possums? <b>Yes, humans can eat possums as long you cook them the right way. Otherwise, you may face an issue worse than starvation due to the ailments possums might carry. You should skin them to check for diseases these creatures might harbor.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_does_possum_meat_taste_like\"><\/span>What does possum meat taste like?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Possum meat tends to have taste <b>similarities to that of a squirrel and rabbit meat. The taste is even comparable to gamey meat as it is from the wild.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_do_people_not_eat_possums\"><\/span>Why do people not eat possums?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Tuberculosis is the main problem cited with eating possum meat. But the disease has never been found in Northland. Possum skinning expert Carl Cooper says you can tell if a possum has tuberculosis because the glands in their groin and underarm swell into large abscesses.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Can_possums_make_you_sick\"><\/span>Can possums make you sick?<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p><b>Opossums carry diseases such as leptospirosis, tuberculosis, relapsing fever, tularemia, spotted fever, toxoplasmosis, coccidiosis, trichomoniasis, and Chagas disease.<\/b><\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Table of Contents Can humans eat possum?What does possum meat taste like?Why do people not eat possums?Can possums make you sick? Can humans eat possum? Can Humans Eat Possums? Yes, humans can eat possums as long you cook them the right way. Otherwise, you may face an issue worse than starvation due to the ailments&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalshelterz.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}