I was thinking about it the other day and thought, hmmm, must write this down.
ps,
Horse tastes like meat. Sort of generic meat. Not pork or chicken or beef or lamb or even Yak (whatever that tastes like) but meat. However it's not the meat I'm drawn to but the principle.
I almost said I've never tasted it, but....I remember... the hamburger joint across the street from the highschool I graduated from was closed down for serving it. The creepy part about that, from my perspective now, is that there is little concern over hygiene in pet food packing plants, which must be where they got it. At least the horses weren't raised on food they couldn't digest and kept ankle deep in their own waste. sigh.
I don't have many phobias about being at the top of the food chain, but I do like the source of my protein to have lived a healthy life.
You might try reading Eric Schlosser's 'Fast Food Nation' about the US food industry if you want to be put off er, food.
And like you I think animals should have a decent life. I'm not into factory farming and distress. Let em roam and have a good life before we eat them. Seems only fair to me.
no need to read that one, dan, I understand too well how awful it is. Am fortunate to live in a place where grass-fed and pastured is not too difficult to obtain, and to have the budget to accomodate. Prefer buffalo, given the chance. and buffalo are simply to ornery to put up with the miserable tactics agri-farm-business uses, so one automatically gets pasture raised, no antibiotic or hormone protein.
Have you read of the e-coli prob with spinach in Salinas? what no one is talking about is that the reason for the contamination are the beef feed lots. they blame everything except -even "oh, well, maybe a bird picked through poo for corn and then flew over the fields!" No mention that they shouldn't feed corn, or that the steers are ankle deep in manure. No mention of the fact that a lot of that goes straight into the rivers.
I suspect there'll be a battle between animal and plant farmers in Salinas over the next 10 years.
There's been some stuff in the British press about contaminated spinach in the US and I believe there is some children who are unwell because of this. Poisoned by spinach, disgraceful, especially as Popeye ate spinach as a healthy eating message in the 1950's.
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a statement even more enigmatic than usual...
Yeah,
I was thinking about it the other day and thought, hmmm, must write this down.
ps,
Horse tastes like meat. Sort of generic meat. Not pork or chicken or beef or lamb or even Yak (whatever that tastes like) but meat. However it's not the meat I'm drawn to but the principle.
I almost said I've never tasted it, but....I remember... the hamburger joint across the street from the highschool I graduated from was closed down for serving it. The creepy part about that, from my perspective now, is that there is little concern over hygiene in pet food packing plants, which must be where they got it. At least the horses weren't raised on food they couldn't digest and kept ankle deep in their own waste. sigh.
I don't have many phobias about being at the top of the food chain, but I do like the source of my protein to have lived a healthy life.
Hayden,
You might try reading Eric Schlosser's 'Fast Food Nation' about the US food industry if you want to be put off er, food.
And like you I think animals should have a decent life. I'm not into factory farming and distress. Let em roam and have a good life before we eat them. Seems only fair to me.
no need to read that one, dan, I understand too well how awful it is. Am fortunate to live in a place where grass-fed and pastured is not too difficult to obtain, and to have the budget to accomodate. Prefer buffalo, given the chance. and buffalo are simply to ornery to put up with the miserable tactics agri-farm-business uses, so one automatically gets pasture raised, no antibiotic or hormone protein.
Have you read of the e-coli prob with spinach in Salinas? what no one is talking about is that the reason for the contamination are the beef feed lots. they blame everything except -even "oh, well, maybe a bird picked through poo for corn and then flew over the fields!" No mention that they shouldn't feed corn, or that the steers are ankle deep in manure. No mention of the fact that a lot of that goes straight into the rivers.
I suspect there'll be a battle between animal and plant farmers in Salinas over the next 10 years.
Nay, nay, I only eat grass. Veggie food, that is.
Hayden,
There's been some stuff in the British press about contaminated spinach in the US and I believe there is some children who are unwell because of this. Poisoned by spinach, disgraceful, especially as Popeye ate spinach as a healthy eating message in the 1950's.
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