General Discussion

and where no one would have given them permission to do any such thing. Other students share this kitchen, and don't want bear parasites, bodily fluid, and offal anywhere near their food. If you did this in your own apartment, you'd likely violate your lease, and possibly local ordinances as well. College dorms have their own regulations, and this could not have been OK with Cornell's admin.

You couldn't slaughter a cow in a dorm kitchen. Just too unsanitary.

Now, carving up a side of beef -- if you were neat and cleaned up any mess, that wouldn't be much different from slicing any packaged meat you brought home from the butcher, or a frozen, gutted chicken. You can trust them to be reasonably clean, and to have been subject to inspection -- something of which a wild bear kill cannot be assumed.

What if they had dressed a deer, and gotten ticks all over the kitchen ? That could have spread Lyme disease, among other things.

There are a lot of reasons not to do this, and no good reason to do it.