eh
i find it amusing how many westerners are shaken and disturbed by the "shocking kitchens" of asian restaurants. folks really get upset by the choice of fare - squid, eel, turtle, frog, duck, pig, cow, chicken, goose, sea cucumber, seaweed, squab, sometimes dog in other countries. others try to tell me about how they won't eat at any asian restaurants because they're "unsanitary".
and yet these same people like their steaks rare and still bleeding....
i think people have just become too darn coddled. i have lots of friends that get sick all the time eating all sorts of foods. i never do.
then again, my mother had a rule - don't waste food. heck, even spoiled milk wasn't considered spoiled until it started curdling in the fridge...
and then she'd try to make cheese (although never successfully... we had the theory, but not the actual knowledge).
so.
go ahead and eat that darn coyote. just cook it up real good, this ain't no USDA GRADE A, irradiated, sterilized, BGH-infused, genetically engineered cow.
come to think of it, you'll probably benefit more, nutritionally and biologically speaking, from a well-cooked strip of coyote than an equal portion of flank steak...
personally, the only rule about food that i value more than "don't waste food" is "eat what you kill".
if i hunt an animal - any animal - i'm going to eat it, be it coyote, snake, or squirrel.
the latter two aren't so bad, btw. don't know about coyote, but i probably wouldn't hunt them. remind me too much of my own dog when he was feral.
