My YouTube channel has dozens of bear hunting videos and I get a lot of hate from antis, even death threats. But the thing that disturbs me is the numbers of hunters who feel that it's wrong to kill bears because we shouldn't kill what we don't eat. Where did this pervasive myth come from that you can't eat bears? Are there others here that like bear meat?

Anyway I did a video to try to help people understand that bears are good to eat and if a person's had a bad experience with bear meat, I offer some reasons why that may be the case. Anything you would add to this?

We get the same thing here about sandhill cranes.

The bears we've killed around our place( Backus MN) have tasted great.

I've eaten bear meat and it is fine to eat. Not necessarily the best meat but certainly not as bad as some people think it is.

One of the most important factors in deciding if you like bear meat is how it is prepared. Prepared properly it is delicious. Prepared incorrectly and it tastes bad and can be tough and grisly.

I eat every bear I harvest, either as fresh meat(roasts,chops,ribs), cured meat(hams) or used in sausage, smokies or pepperoni. Taken care of properly it is excellent. The main thing I have found, if you freeze it for long, is all fat must be trimmed as it can develop a very strong flavor. The bear I take are all shot in the fall out of berry patches or apple orchards,no dump bear. We also render the fat for the best pie crusts or boot grease.

We ate the bear I killed in Michigan. For a month before season, I fed it French toast, bacon, sweet rolls, pancakes and anything else I got from the leftovers in the mess hall kitchen at KI Sawyer AFB. That bear meat was delicious!

I've heard bear meat is similar to raccoon meat, which isn't bad. Good, not great. Anybody had both to compare?

Don't care for it but doesn't mean it is bad.

I took a 170lb bear this September, the steaks have been great, salt and pepper and cooked stove top in a cast iron skillet is the only way I cook it

I've only had one but it was really no different than beef except that the meat remained a dark red color even after coming. Only part I didn't like was one steak that was tougher than shoe leather.

I would much rather eat properly processed bear than deer.

Bear is great spring or fall as long as it hasn’t ate fish. The liver is the most delicate tasting of all the game animals . My favorite is a hind quarter that has been corned. Rendered fat is really good too. I give away the hide and keep the meat.

Bear meat is excellent if you take care of it properly,ribs are great might be my favorite.

Biggest things with any wild meat are proper processing (get it cool and clean quick as you can) and don't over cook it.
Bear and coon are good eats. There's worse. Like greasy, rubbery possum for one.

Been hunting and eating our bear since 1983. Never let any animal we harvest go to waste.

I will agree with you except bear should not be done rare, or medium rare from what I am told. I give deer the edge only because a nice pink center is preddy darn good.

We eat all our bear but this year we get and like it a lot. This year no bear for any of us, a first since I have been here......jk

My Wife, our kids and I have eaten several ive taken. My Wife likes it better than Deer now. I tries my Brownie this past spring in Alaska... I ate it with A-1 , Waggler tried it plain....Yeah, Not Good....Hahaha!

I've shot a few around Backus!

Bear is like pork, it needs to be cooked to minimum 160 degrees.