What Made you Smile/What Ticked you off Today?

[StuntDouble]

dsh,

I've always found that Saltines work for me when I have stomach issues, whether they're flu or alcohol related. I'd go as far as saying they should package them with bottles of water and sell them as a hangover cure.

Either way, hope you feel better soon.

[elmagicochrisg]

Well cruelty for sake of cruelty would be something like kicking little children or animals "for fun" (serves no further puporse than getting "joy" out of the act of cruelty and sense of having power over some one weaker than you), while atleast in theory something like Ying Yang fish (fish that's deep fried alive) or force feeding cattle serves the purporse of the product having better taste (which will be killed so it could be consumed in any case). Either way, that's justifying unnecessary cruelty.

That's what I said no?...

Not for the sake of cruelty, but because it fits him.

In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius to move in the opposite direction.

[Forlorn Drifter]

Smile: Everybody on here is arguing over the ethics of eating meat, while I'm chowing down on a veal sandwich...

Ethics of eating meat and how we treat farm animals aren't the same thing. There's nothing unnatural or unethical about eating meat per se.

Yes, but me buying it would be supporting that treatment, no?

I was joking, by the by.

[flex wood]

The two words I heard yesterday that are making today suck...

free beer

[elmagicochrisg]

Yes, but me buying it would be supporting that treatment, no?

To a certain degree maybe...

I think meat is an essential part of our natural diet. So I don't see anything wrong with eating meat. I can also understand that buying organic meat from free range grass fed animals unfortunately is not always an option. Whether it be because it's not available where you live, or simply because you cannot afford it. But foie gras does not fall under that category, since it's rather expensive. So one does not buy and eat foie gras out of necessity, but simply to satisfy some sick craving...

I eat meat. But I don't eat foie gras. I don't eat veal either...

By the way, have you ever looked at foie gras?...

Left: liver from force-fed duck
Right: normal duck liver





I don't know about you, but that doesn't look healthy to me at all. Yuk...

[Forlorn Drifter]

^Well, I have eaten veal, but there is ways to raise veal that is less torturous than others.

On the other hand, foie gras is something I would never eat. I personally don't eat any internal organs from any animals, as I don't find any of that appealing. I just eat the actual meat, not organs.

[elmagicochrisg]

^Well, I have eaten veal, but there is ways to raise veal that is less torturous than others.

Probably...

On the other hand, foie gras is something I would never eat. I personally don't eat any internal organs from any animals, as I don't find any of that appealing. I just eat the actual meat, not organs.

That's too bad. Good organ meat is very healthy...

One thing I just cannot eat is kidneys. Shit, no matter how good you clean them, they always smell like piss when you prepare them. Thanks, but no thanks...

[Forlorn Drifter]

As healthy as organ meat can be, I just don't like the way they taste. I was also raised that they aren't something you should eat. I don't know, just a personal thing. Anyways, what am I supposed to feed the dogs after I clean a deer otherwise?

[RyaNtheSlayA]

I love game-meat. We had some venison a few weeks ago that was just incredible (shot by my uncle). Love me some wild duck too.

[Blu]

If you are a disciplined and patient hunter, you can lessen the suffering of the animal you are hunting. Chris, after seeing that Duck video, it affirms why I want to eat local, humanely raised animals if I choose to eat meat. That and I'll always eat what is gained from hunting--though we have to be cautious up north that CWD hasn't spread to our deer herds.