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A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. - Mohammad Ali
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Originally posted by CJF View PostThe two portions that bothered me the most were the soy bean and the chicken segments. The soy bean thing just pissed me off for some reason. The chicken portion just made me ill. Here in the Philippines chicken is my main meat. Local beef tastes terrible. The chickens breasts are small and I don't think they have anything but free range. They taste pretty good too.
I do think it is good that people realize where food is coming from and have respect for it. That steak was helping some critter move at some point. I have had several vegetarian friends tell me they would eat meat if they could do it the way I did it as a kid - knowing the animal, raising it, and then killing it with knowledge of why they did it. It is a different thing to know your meat than to just impersonally pick it up at the store, even if you only go through that once.Awesomeness now has a name. Let me introduce myself.
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Originally posted by CJF View PostThe two portions that bothered me the most were the soy bean and the chicken segments. The soy bean thing just pissed me off for some reason. The chicken portion just made me ill. Here in the Philippines chicken is my main meat. Local beef tastes terrible. The chickens breasts are small and I don't think they have anything but free range. They taste pretty good too.What's to explain? It's a bunch of people, most of whom you've never met, who are just as likely to be homicidal maniacs as they are to be normal everyday people, with whom you share the minutiae of your everyday life. It's totally normal, and everyone would understand.
-Teenage Dirtbag
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Originally posted by CJF View PostThe two portions that bothered me the most were the soy bean and the chicken segments. The soy bean thing just pissed me off for some reason. The chicken portion just made me ill. Here in the Philippines chicken is my main meat. Local beef tastes terrible. The chickens breasts are small and I don't think they have anything but free range. They taste pretty good too.sigpic
"Outlined against a blue, gray
October sky the Four Horsemen rode again"
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Originally posted by cowboy View PostPoultry and veal are two aspects of animal agriculture that bother me, I admit. I don't like the idea of spending your entire life in a cage barely big enough to turn around in. Pork and beef are a different story. Nobody in his right mind allows his animals to "wade around in their own excrement." They straw the corrals, scrape them, whatever it takes to get them dry and keep the animals from getting sick.
I don't know how I get past poultry, but I do. Maybe if fewer things tasted like chicken....Awesomeness now has a name. Let me introduce myself.
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Originally posted by nikuman View PostI don't know how I get past poultry, but I do. Maybe if fewer things tasted like chicken....sigpic
"Outlined against a blue, gray
October sky the Four Horsemen rode again"
Grantland Rice, 1924
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Originally posted by cowboy View PostCowboy's friends:
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Seriously, y'all need to get out in the country more if this movie affected you.
I ate steak almost daily in Kansas and it was dirt cheap. I loved it. Man, that's the only good thing about that damn state."Nobody listens to Turtle."-Turtlesigpic
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Originally posted by nikuman View PostChicken raising techniques are far, far, far different than beef. While my operation was not commercial, I was involved in and/or knew several commercial beef operations. What cowboy says is my experience as well.
I do think it is good that people realize where food is coming from and have respect for it. That steak was helping some critter move at some point. I have had several vegetarian friends tell me they would eat meat if they could do it the way I did it as a kid - knowing the animal, raising it, and then killing it with knowledge of why they did it. It is a different thing to know your meat than to just impersonally pick it up at the store, even if you only go through that once.A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. - Mohammad Ali
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Originally posted by camleish View Posti just cooked up a couple of delicious veal steaks a couple of weeks ago... suffering never tasted so good.
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Originally posted by cowboy View PostCowboy's friends:
Pellegrino
Marsupial
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Seriously, y'all need to get out in the country more if this movie affected you.Dio perdona tante cose per un’opera di misericordia
God forgives many things for an act of mercyAlessandro Manzoni
Knock it off. This board has enough problems without a dose of middle-age lechery.
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Having read most of Omnivore's Dilemma I think I appreciate a lot more about how basically everything is made out of corn including cows. It hasn't made me want to stop eating anything, but the big insight which had never occurred to me is that to produce that much corn you need fertilizer that can only be produced in a process that requires massive amounts of petrol. Or IOW, the whole system has crude oil at the base of it.
Interesting from the standpoint that whenever we run out, much of the yield boost that technology brings to both corn and cattle will disappear too. Cows will probably then go back to turning the energy in grass into meat instead of turning essentially the energy in petroleum (at bottom) into meat.
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Originally posted by cowboy View PostCowboy's friends:
Pellegrino
Marsupial
Rest of the Board
Seriously, y'all need to get out in the country more if this movie affected you.What's to explain? It's a bunch of people, most of whom you've never met, who are just as likely to be homicidal maniacs as they are to be normal everyday people, with whom you share the minutiae of your everyday life. It's totally normal, and everyone would understand.
-Teenage Dirtbag
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