ALL animals including the lion are eaten by the indiginous peoples. These places that offer this type of hunt are all set up to deal with these animals, they have a 20' flat deck trailer they winch the giraffe onto and it is taken back to the farm house complex where they have a processing area and some even have walk-in coolers while others just strip and dry it immediately. Africa is a land of zero waste. In the Congo our tracker and skinner were both old poachers and when they are done processing an animal all there is is a damp spot on the ground. They even rinse out most of the gut and stomach and eat that too. They even skin out the tail and it goes into the soup pot. They make even the most ethical of meat hunters here look like wasteful slobs. They cook all the bones and then smash them and eat the marrow. In the more civilized areas the bones are dried and sold to crush for bonemeal and the guts which are not eaten are dropped in a drum and sold to fertilizer companies. Protien holds such high value in these protien starved countries that every ounce of an animal is used, things you and I would deem inedible are eaten with relish including the brain in most cases, the nose meat and cartillage, large and small intestines, tongue of coarse, stomach and virtually every organ. I do not think Africans have taste buds, or if they do they are a lot more forgiving than mine and yours!!
