I just watched the infamous Meet Your Meat video from PETA back in the day. Seriously, I am surprised that this would be shocking new info
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I really take issue with people who don't accept or aren't aware of the source of your food. I have a friend who doesn't like when people talk about meat being animals because it makes her not want to eat it. There is a really good book called the omnivore's dilemma that you should really check out. it's about examining the sources and and implications of what we eat. I try to be exactly aware of what I eat. If it is a bad mass of processed corn-based products chemically designed to tasted like sweets, then ok, I accept that. If it is a part of an animal that was killed, processed, and sent to my grocery store, then ok.
I wasn't saying tradition makes it right, I was saying that tradition should make it common knowledge. What xtrustisyoursx was referring to, with the friend that won't let them talk about food, is invincible ignorance. My beef(no pun intended) is with the implied ignorance, in the true sense of the word, of the public as a whole. It bothers me that people are so willingly stupid that they not only don't, but WON'T even consider where there food was right before they eat it!
I understood what xtrustisyourx was saying, and I agree with the reason given, just that I also have an additional reason for agreeing with that as well.
I have friends like that...I was just talking to Dan about one of our mutual friends who has the same attitude towards meat. She does not want to talk about it as in that it came from an animal, but to separate food from animal. For some reason she doesn't eat pork out of preference, though, and it's not about taste. It's not religious either, she's Catholic.
In high school, I used to refer to meat as flesh, and people got upset that I would call it that because it made it sound worse. I stopped, but I couldn't see why they had to keep the mental separation.
You should call it that. I don't beat around the bush about meat coming from dead animal parts. When I was young, after butchering a couple animals, I would often look at meat and then look at my own arm or hand or leg in fascination, at how the whole thing works. People should be forced to face what they are eating, and the consequences of people's actions should never be kept out of sight, out of mind.
Could you please pass the tortured baby cow? Thanks.
In semi-related news, I did something today I haven't done in years. We were barbecuing, and I ate a hamburger, 2 hot dogs, and part of a steak in addition to the broccoli/mashed potatoes. That much meat can't be good for anyone. I felt physically ill and am surprised I could keep it down. I will never eat flesh in that quantity again, especially not red meat.
Oh yeah, and PETA sucks. They make me want to eat a big juicy steak out of spite. Animals are not more important than people. Well, not more important than some people. I've met exceptions.
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I have friends like that...I was just talking to Dan about one of our mutual friends who has the same attitude towards meat. She does not want to talk about it as in that it came from an animal, but to separate food from animal. For some reason she doesn't eat pork out of preference, though, and it's not about taste. It's not religious either, she's Catholic.
In high school, I used to refer to meat as flesh, and people got upset that I would call it that because it made it sound worse. I stopped, but I couldn't see why they had to keep the mental separation.
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In semi-related news, I did something today I haven't done in years. We were barbecuing, and I ate a hamburger, 2 hot dogs, and part of a steak in addition to the broccoli/mashed potatoes. That much meat can't be good for anyone. I felt physically ill and am surprised I could keep it down. I will never eat flesh in that quantity again, especially not red meat.
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Ugh, big juicy steak...not for a very long time.
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