Horizon: Should I eat Meat?

[ddraig]

They're not there for people's pleasure unless you're into fucking them.

Are you denying they're a food source?

So people don't get pleasure from eating them?

 

[Citizen66]

I'm not a vegetarian... I'm a mammal who chooses not to each my fellow mammals.

 

[Citizen66]

So people don't get pleasure from eating them?

Surely that's subjective? They can. But food is fuel be it animal or vegetable.

 

[ddraig]

Grow up c66

 

[ddraig]

Surely that's subjective? They can. But food is fuel be it animal or vegetable.

Lots even most gain pleasure from food

 

[Citizen66]

Lots even most gain pleasure from food

There's a reason for it too. It's the brain saying "yes you need more of this." The bastard psychos.

 

[mod]

What do meat eaters think about some of the more intensive farming methods (i.e. the methods by which a large amount of meat is produced?).

Have you seen Food Inc yet?

 

[mwgdrwg]

I've not had meat this year. 6 days is probably the longest I have gone without meat.

 

[ddraig]

da iawn! dal ati

 

[maomao]

cael brechdan bacwn neis i wobrwyo eich hun

 

[ddraig]

tyfwch fynny

 

[gentlegreen]

Bacon is far too close to people.

 

[Gromit]

Bacon is far too close to people.

Mine's downstairs in the fridge which isn't close enough for me right now imo.

 

[maomao]

Bacon is far too close to people.

Literally. I used to work at a taxi office in a tube station nearly twenty years ago. One evening me and two drivers smelled a cooking bacon smell coming from what we thought was the direction of the office so we thought the station manager was making himself a bacon sarnie. Turned out to be a pissed bloke had got off the train, fallen on the electric line and was smoking away. Remarkably similar odour.

 

[ddraig]

lovely!
it is cooking flesh after all

 

[maomao]

lovely!
it is cooking flesh after all

Yes, but it didn't smell like beef, mutton or chicken, it smelled like bacon.

 

[gentlegreen]

I won't even eat Linda Mccartney's sausages - too realistic

 

[Spymaster]

Turned out to be a pissed bloke had got off the train, fallen on the electric line and was smoking away.

What did he taste like?

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Yes, but it didn't smell like beef, mutton or chicken, it smelled like bacon.

Pigs and humans have similar anatomy, so perhaps we also taste similar.

 

[maomao]

What did he taste like?

Probably beer! But I was a veggie back then so would have turned it down even if someone had got a carving knife and a fresh loaf out.

 

[DotCommunist]

human meat cooking is always described as smelling like roasting pork. With such frequency and by so many different sources that it must be true.

I once read a sci fi story where the mega rich had replacement organs grown in their own personal GM pig- new heart, liver, lungs, the works. No problems with rejection see? big ethical problems with that one though

 

[JimW]

Pigs and humans have similar anatomy, so perhaps we also taste similar.

Recall reading that the Norwegian(?) army used to shoot them so their medics could practise battlefield wound dressing/surgery on similar flesh, but may not be true.

 

[tufty79]

Recall reading that the Norwegian(?) army used to shoot them so their medics could practise battlefield wound dressing/surgery on similar flesh, but may not be true.

Good for practicing tattooists too, apparently.

 

[DotCommunist]

Recall reading that the Norwegian(?) army used to shoot them so their medics could practise battlefield wound dressing/surgery on similar flesh, but may not be true.

denmark, and apparently some brit army medics went there to train with em

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Recall reading that the Norwegian(?) army used to shoot them so their medics could practise battlefield wound dressing/surgery on similar flesh, but may not be true.

British too.

Operation Danish Bacon.

 

[Spymaster]

Recall reading that the Norwegian(?) army used to shoot them so their medics could practise battlefield wound dressing/surgery on similar flesh, but may not be true.

It's very true. And an excellent use of pigs, imo.

 

[JimW]

It's very true. And an excellent use of pigs, imo.

Only if they arm the pigs too and make it a fair fight.

 

[Spymaster]

Only if they arm the pigs too and make it a fair fight.

It's not meant to be a fight, silly. They're practicing life saving medical techniques. Not for the pigs, admittedly.

 

[JimW]

It's not meant to be a fight, silly. They're practicing life saving medical techniques. Not for the pigs, admittedly.

But they wouldn't have to save the pigs' lives if they didn't shoot them, silly yourself.

/doing it on purpose

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Good for practicing tattooists too, apparently.

Maybe veggies shouldn't get tattooed then