All this talk reminded me of a time when I used to carve bones out of humans
(don't worry, they were properly stunned first, and No, I am not joking or
making this up! ;->). After taking the long leg bones, you would be left
with a rather large boneless fillet with a foot attached to it. I could have
easily carved myself off a hefty thigh steak quite easily. So this brings up
a question. If cow meat is called beef, what is human meat called?
Hummmmmmm.....
Nerd from Hell
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> Subject: For those of you into meat, animals...
>
>
> I knwo there's both carnivores and vegetarians on this board.
> My mother
> eats meat and wrings her hands feeling guilty about it. I have animal
> products in my fridge. I have long considered animal rights groups
> excessively absolutist to the point of fanaticism about
> humans not using
> animals for anything. However. www.washingtonpost.com and
> also msnbc.com
> have a big expose online about the meat industry. The problem
> is the mass
> production and speeding up of slaughter lines. THis leads to
> both E.coli
> contamination (which killed a three year old child in the Midwest last
> summer - heart rending story) and botched slaughtering which
> results in
> animals not being properly stunned and sometimes even being awake when
> they ar cut up.
>
> OK, vegetarians go ahead and get smug (There's still cross
> contamination
> to worry about getting into veggies...) Carnivores, my hands
> are not clean
> so I cannot self righteously ask YOU to eat vegetarian! But
> think about
> it: what if meat consumptioln in America dropped by half?
> What if every
> meat eater ate only half as much meat (esp red meat) as they
> do now? It is
> the huge demand (and things like fast food) that drives the
> huge push for
> mass production (Not to mention greed and their evil politcal
> lobby.) Once
> upon a time we killed our own food and we could respect it.
> There are too
> many of us now. One more vegetarian *meal* is one little step toward
> improving the situation (one more vegetarian diet is a bigger
> one, I do
> confess.)
>
> Those of you outside the US - I actually envy European meat,
> once they do
> something about the mad cow problem. The standards are STRICTER than
> here. It is American slaughterhouses that are much more
> horrible. Also the
> potentila for mad cow is with us although they did ban
> feeding runinant
> parts to other ruminants, they can feed pig parts to cows and
> pigs can get
> it. Didn't the UK adopt a stricter rule than that?
>
> I have much less of a problem with eating meat per se (as
> does the animal
> rights movement) than with factory farming.
>
>
> For the record my sympathies are more with groups like the
> Humane Farmikng
> Assn than PETA (c'mon, throwing paint on fur won't bring the
> mink back.)
> Very few animals, wild or domestic, are afforded the luxury
> of death with
> dignity, pets excepted. Do you suppose a pack of wolves
> bringing down a
> large deer politely waits for it to finish dying before they
> chow down on
> it? Sentiment or feeling upset for cows is not the #1 reason fore
> vegetarianism to me, it ranks far behind the *ecological*
> issue; the world
> can't support six billion meat based diets. I can't imagine
> that everyone
> will suddenly go total vegan though. Nature will force our hand and
> probably many people will starve to death before McDonalds
> admits it ought
> to offer veggie burgers! The moderate outlook in _Earth_
> (which actually
> treats hunting wild game as ethical) appeals to me. it
> imagines 2x as many
> people in the future and 1/2 as many cows, which mean man
> hasnt stopped
> eating meat but red meat consumption is down three quarters (ddi I get
> that right?) anyway, vegetarianism had caught on with a
> generation - but
> sometimes their kids start eating meat jujst to gross their
> parents out
> (how do you know that won't happen to you....)
>
> Kristin
> mm, whats for lunch? slice of dead turkey on mayo. Piece of dead
> increadibly stupid unnatural inbred thing that might go extinct from a
> plague or something cause its gene pool is tiny...but that's another
> issue...
> Dripping blood and waiting for the fire...;
>
>
