Answer:
Men seize me from my home tear apart my flesh drink the sweet blood then cast my skin aside.
So cold damp and dark I am. To stay you would refrain yet those who occupy me do never complain.
What can you catch but not throw?
I can be thin but not fat; in your body but never on your placemat. I'm always better when I'm fresh but you'll never see me in the flesh.
I can be red blue purple and green. No one can reach me not even the queen.
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.