Thanks! Excellent and informative rant!
I had a question.
Standing Bear wrote:
The ribs are almost as flat as
a sheet of paper. I know of no pig or cow that has flat rib bones that have
edges sharp enough to cut a dinner roll and a thickness no more than three
millimeters and a width of twenty five millimeters.
So, what creature has ribs like that? Any idea?
Sheep? Horse? Dog? Cat? Farmworker? (er, ET, maybe?)
Our cat's ribs are not an inch wide. My ribs feel like they're probably
more rounded than you describe and thicker than 3 mm (but they're inside
where I can't get at them easily). I haven't got a sheep or dog here to
check, but in any case it doesn't really sound like either of those.
There's no large scale CAFO-type horse farming in the U.S. AFAIK so
horsemeat would tend to be more expensive than the cow meat, which
should keep it out of fast food places.
Sheep tends to be more expensive than cow also, for that matter.
I'm at a loss. I can't guess.
