Horse Meat In The United Kingdom
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I guess they've a problem with horse meat being sold as beef in the United Kingdom. Apparently it's made it's way into the schools, hospitals and other organizations. This leaves me with a few questions: 1: Does a horse cost less to raise than a cow? I don't see the savings there. 2: If it takes DNA testing to tell the difference does it really matter? 3: If the horse meat is going into people food then what the elephant are the dogs getting? -MehGerbil
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I guess they've a problem with horse meat being sold as beef in the United Kingdom. Apparently it's made it's way into the schools, hospitals and other organizations. This leaves me with a few questions: 1: Does a horse cost less to raise than a cow? I don't see the savings there. 2: If it takes DNA testing to tell the difference does it really matter? 3: If the horse meat is going into people food then what the elephant are the dogs getting? -MehGerbil
Isn't a horse just a fast cow? Other than the fraud and drugs, etc., what's the big deal? Meat is meat. We're all too fussy and too far removed from the messy end of the food chain. If we had to catch and kill our own food...
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me
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Honestly as long as I can't tell the difference and it doesn't make me sick, I don't really care what it is. Meat that tastes like beef is beef as far as I'm concerned.
What if it tastes like chicken?
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What if it tastes like chicken?
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I guess they've a problem with horse meat being sold as beef in the United Kingdom. Apparently it's made it's way into the schools, hospitals and other organizations. This leaves me with a few questions: 1: Does a horse cost less to raise than a cow? I don't see the savings there. 2: If it takes DNA testing to tell the difference does it really matter? 3: If the horse meat is going into people food then what the elephant are the dogs getting? -MehGerbil
MehGerbil wrote:
1: Does a horse cost less to raise than a cow? I don't see the savings there.
As previously mentioned, they aren't raised for this purpose, but it's how almost every horse meets its end. Race horses, pet horses, work horses, are all worth $1 a pound last time I checked. When they get too old to serve their purpose, owners cash them out. I think it's a little fucked up that tame horses that lived among and trusted people, get slaughtered. Would you sell for slaughter your pet dog when he turned 10?
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That's like asking "What if it's food?", because apparently everything tastes like chicken...
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MehGerbil wrote:
what the elephant are the dogs getting
Elephant? Sometimes I think they just take regular human food and add some nasty looking ooze so they can call it dog food. But if that would be true we would all be eating elephants... Not me though, I'm a vegetarian. Turns out they actually sell carrots as lettuce!
It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
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I'm a vegetarian
Then you deny your evolutionary imperitive. You are denying what you are and that is hypocrisy. You have canine teeth and enzymes designed to breakdown animal tissue. You have forward pointing eyes and intelligence. You are a flesh eater, a hunter, a predator. Look at all the predatory fauna, they are higher intelligence and similar morphology. Then look at the vegegabilst animals. They are slower, fatter, and less intelligent. Meat has a price, but it's rewards outweigh the cost. I am a happy carnivore and will hunt, kill, prepare, dress, cook and eat that which I kill.
--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^]
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Isn't a horse just a fast cow? Other than the fraud and drugs, etc., what's the big deal? Meat is meat. We're all too fussy and too far removed from the messy end of the food chain. If we had to catch and kill our own food...
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me
Indeed. Animal protien is animal protein regardless of its source. Those tossers that insist that their children become vegetarians are guilty of both child cruelty and facism. The cruelty being that the children are denied the benefits of the animal nutrients and the facism is in not allowing them to make their own informed choice.
--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^]
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The horse meat is generally coming from working stock that has reached the end of its life, and tests have supposedly identified Bute in some of the meat. This is a drug that is not safe for human consumption. Finally, it's being sold as beef, so that is fraud.
I was brought up to respect my elders. I don't respect many people nowadays.
CodeStash - Online Snippet Management | My blog | MoXAML PowerToys | Mole 2010 - debugging made easierYep, one of the main reasons I'm a veggie is that I have no respect for the meat industry.
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That's like asking "What if it's food?", because apparently everything tastes like chicken...
But that's bad, isn't it? Usually, people are complaining, when they say something tastes like c***.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Yep, one of the main reasons I'm a veggie is that I have no respect for the meat industry.
Can't say as I have an awful lot of respect for cabbages and turnips.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Naerling wrote:
I'm a vegetarian
Then you deny your evolutionary imperitive. You are denying what you are and that is hypocrisy. You have canine teeth and enzymes designed to breakdown animal tissue. You have forward pointing eyes and intelligence. You are a flesh eater, a hunter, a predator. Look at all the predatory fauna, they are higher intelligence and similar morphology. Then look at the vegegabilst animals. They are slower, fatter, and less intelligent. Meat has a price, but it's rewards outweigh the cost. I am a happy carnivore and will hunt, kill, prepare, dress, cook and eat that which I kill.
--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^]
B*ll*cks on almost all counts. Tackling them more or less in order. 1. You have canine teeth. We also regularly get back problems due to the fact that evolution is NOT intelligent design. 2. No we are omnivores, adapted to eat either pretty well any food source. It is largely up to us which we choose, we can equal nutrition from any source if we choose well. 3. When was the last time you, or the majority of our species hunted? 4. Er.. right, so a vast number of anthropoids have less intelligence than lions. Hmm. 5. Same answer as (4). Comparing us to animals massively removed in terms of genetic material (or at least as far as most mammals are) and ignoring those closest to us is a massive example of selection bias. Yet more unintelligent design. 6. Right, I think you'll find that a balanced vegetarian diet has all the nutritional benefits and avoids most of the hazards. On top of that, its environmentally more friendly than a meat-based diet as it produces massively less CO^2, its more ethical (purely on the basis of the way industrial meat production actually treats animals), and, unless you're stupid and ignore basic dietary advice, better for you. Sorry, but sometimes bull has to be called. PS. I normally avoid ranting on this subject I think you beat me to that.
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Naerling wrote:
I'm a vegetarian
Then you deny your evolutionary imperitive. You are denying what you are and that is hypocrisy. You have canine teeth and enzymes designed to breakdown animal tissue. You have forward pointing eyes and intelligence. You are a flesh eater, a hunter, a predator. Look at all the predatory fauna, they are higher intelligence and similar morphology. Then look at the vegegabilst animals. They are slower, fatter, and less intelligent. Meat has a price, but it's rewards outweigh the cost. I am a happy carnivore and will hunt, kill, prepare, dress, cook and eat that which I kill.
--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^]
Actually, that part about being intelligent enables me to question my ways, which is exactly what I did, after which I decided never to eat meat again. Now if I were, for lack of a better word, a 'lower' animal I would have just eaten my meat because that just so happens to be what I do. I am also quite positive we are not designed to hunt. We have no strength, speed or endurance like many animals have. The only reason we can kill those animals is because we just so happen to walk on our hind legs in a straight position, which enables us to hold weapons with which we can kill those animals. And seriously, the only hunting people do nowadays is hunting McDonalds... That's not hunting! Calling it a hunt, or yourself a predator for that matter, is just nonsense. I think by far most people in the world have never hunted anything in their life! Now about veggie's being slower, fatter and less intelligent I don't know. What I do know is that it's mainly the meat eaters among humans that are the fat bastards that stuff themselves at fast food restaurants, unable to walk for more than a mile because their louzy condition and poor health won't allow it... Maybe I shouldn't mention I write software for slaughterhouses... Nope, this wouldn't be the best time to share that part about my life...
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Can't say as I have an awful lot of respect for cabbages and turnips.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
By the sound of it not much imagination in terms of cooking either, if that's your idea of a veggie diet.
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Honestly as long as I can't tell the difference and it doesn't make me sick, I don't really care what it is. Meat that tastes like beef is beef as far as I'm concerned.
lewax00 wrote:
Meat that tastes like beef is beef as far as I'm concerned.
I wonder what human flesh tastes like? If it tastes like beef then I shall have an old friend for dinner tonight and a glass of Chianti.
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68). "I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
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Naerling wrote:
I'm a vegetarian
Then you deny your evolutionary imperitive. You are denying what you are and that is hypocrisy. You have canine teeth and enzymes designed to breakdown animal tissue. You have forward pointing eyes and intelligence. You are a flesh eater, a hunter, a predator. Look at all the predatory fauna, they are higher intelligence and similar morphology. Then look at the vegegabilst animals. They are slower, fatter, and less intelligent. Meat has a price, but it's rewards outweigh the cost. I am a happy carnivore and will hunt, kill, prepare, dress, cook and eat that which I kill.
--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^]
Man is also built to overpower and take breeding partners with physical force. Am I denying my evolutionary imperative by not raping women? I also have the ability to procreate multiple times a day, (we were all teenagers once). Am I denying my evolutionary imperative by not having children?
Dalek Dave wrote:
Look at all the predatory fauna, they are higher intelligence and similar morphology.
Dalek Dave wrote:
imperitive.
...but can't use spell check apparently.
Dalek Dave wrote:
I am a happy carnivore and will hunt, kill, prepare, dress, cook and eat that which I kill.
With your evolved, predatory bare hands? No tools? My point is not that I have a problem with anyone eating meat, but an evolutionary argument can be used for almost any point of view, on any topic, and will always be fallible.
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lewax00 wrote:
Meat that tastes like beef is beef as far as I'm concerned.
I wonder what human flesh tastes like? If it tastes like beef then I shall have an old friend for dinner tonight and a glass of Chianti.
"I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot." — Ramón Maria Narváez (1800-68). "I don't need to shoot my enemies, I don't have any." - Me (2012).
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B*ll*cks on almost all counts. Tackling them more or less in order. 1. You have canine teeth. We also regularly get back problems due to the fact that evolution is NOT intelligent design. 2. No we are omnivores, adapted to eat either pretty well any food source. It is largely up to us which we choose, we can equal nutrition from any source if we choose well. 3. When was the last time you, or the majority of our species hunted? 4. Er.. right, so a vast number of anthropoids have less intelligence than lions. Hmm. 5. Same answer as (4). Comparing us to animals massively removed in terms of genetic material (or at least as far as most mammals are) and ignoring those closest to us is a massive example of selection bias. Yet more unintelligent design. 6. Right, I think you'll find that a balanced vegetarian diet has all the nutritional benefits and avoids most of the hazards. On top of that, its environmentally more friendly than a meat-based diet as it produces massively less CO^2, its more ethical (purely on the basis of the way industrial meat production actually treats animals), and, unless you're stupid and ignore basic dietary advice, better for you. Sorry, but sometimes bull has to be called. PS. I normally avoid ranting on this subject I think you beat me to that.
Rob Grainger wrote:
We also regularly get back problems due to the fact that evolution is NOT intelligent design.
Well of course there is no intelligent design, so any religious bollox about not eating anything in particular is crapola.
Rob Grainger wrote:
It is largely up to us which we choose, we can equal nutrition from any source if we choose well.
Apart from our direct need of animal protein as we are young, that is why we developed those enzymes, not through choice but by requirement.
Rob Grainger wrote:
When was the last time you, or the majority of our species hunted?
26th of December. I was hunting then and ate what I caught.
Rob Grainger wrote:
Er.. right, so a vast number of anthropoids have less intelligence than lions. Hmm.
Wrong argument. They are merely the apex of intelligence, but a lion is much more intelligent than a gazelle. Your argument is spurious as ALL homonids were capable of eating meat, and do not believe the vegetabilist propaganda of all the great apes being entirely vegetarian. Pan, Pongo and Gorilla are all omniverous and eat animal protein. Chimps in particular are vicious carnivours, whilst Orangutans and Gorillas are both insectivorous and larvaephageous.
Rob Grainger wrote:
Same answer as (4). Comparing us to animals massively removed in terms of genetic material (or at least as far as most mammals are) and ignoring those closest to us is a massive example of selection bias. Yet more unintelligent design.
There we go, you lose. The 'Comparing us to animals' is a lost cause. We are animals, of the kingdo, Animalia. No selection bias. Birds are not mammals, and yet the meat eaters show problem solving intelligence. And of course there is no intelligent design, it can all be shown in evolutionary steps. 'Intelligent Design' is a self defeating argument, for those that believe in it are, by definition, not intelligent.
Rob Grainger wrote:
Right, I think you'll find that a balanced vegetarian diet has all the nutritional benefits and avoids most of the hazards.
Right, ok, lets look at that. Firstly you cannot get all the amino acids that are required for full embryonic development
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Actually, that part about being intelligent enables me to question my ways, which is exactly what I did, after which I decided never to eat meat again. Now if I were, for lack of a better word, a 'lower' animal I would have just eaten my meat because that just so happens to be what I do. I am also quite positive we are not designed to hunt. We have no strength, speed or endurance like many animals have. The only reason we can kill those animals is because we just so happen to walk on our hind legs in a straight position, which enables us to hold weapons with which we can kill those animals. And seriously, the only hunting people do nowadays is hunting McDonalds... That's not hunting! Calling it a hunt, or yourself a predator for that matter, is just nonsense. I think by far most people in the world have never hunted anything in their life! Now about veggie's being slower, fatter and less intelligent I don't know. What I do know is that it's mainly the meat eaters among humans that are the fat bastards that stuff themselves at fast food restaurants, unable to walk for more than a mile because their louzy condition and poor health won't allow it... Maybe I shouldn't mention I write software for slaughterhouses... Nope, this wouldn't be the best time to share that part about my life...
It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}We are faster and stronger than 99.99999999999999% of all the other animals. We evolved from carnivores and became omnivores. We gave up specialism and became intelligent generalists. Our hunting exists, it has just become more cerebral. Crows have been shown to not only use a tool, but to use a tool to make a tool. Only Chimps and us have that ability. As for hunting burgers, I disagree. I have stalked and hunted animals, and eaten them. You are generalising for a race of fat lazy fucks, but when the bomb goes up and we need to eat rats and squirrels to stay alive, then I am your man! Regardless of the society, one merely has to look at the genes. If we develop genes to code for meat dissolving enzymes then we are, by definition, exogenous heterophagic organisms, and that is merely a step from carnivora.
--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^]
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We are faster and stronger than 99.99999999999999% of all the other animals. We evolved from carnivores and became omnivores. We gave up specialism and became intelligent generalists. Our hunting exists, it has just become more cerebral. Crows have been shown to not only use a tool, but to use a tool to make a tool. Only Chimps and us have that ability. As for hunting burgers, I disagree. I have stalked and hunted animals, and eaten them. You are generalising for a race of fat lazy fucks, but when the bomb goes up and we need to eat rats and squirrels to stay alive, then I am your man! Regardless of the society, one merely has to look at the genes. If we develop genes to code for meat dissolving enzymes then we are, by definition, exogenous heterophagic organisms, and that is merely a step from carnivora.
--------------------------------- I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^]
Dalek Dave wrote:
We are faster and stronger than 99.99999999999999% of all the other animals.
And about 99.99999999999999% of those cannot be seen, let alone eaten, by us...
Dalek Dave wrote:
We gave up specialism and became intelligent generalists.
Our intelligence is degrading by the ages...
Dalek Dave wrote:
Crows have been shown to not only use a tool, but to use a tool to make a tool.
Only Chimps and us have that ability.Appearently us and chimps aren't the only ones...
Dalek Dave wrote:
You are generalising for a race of fat lazy f***s, but when the bomb goes up and we need to eat rats and squirrels to stay alive, then I am your man!
When that day comes I probably don't even want to live anymore... And not because I must eat squirrels and rats. Now whatever it is evolution has in store for us or what you believe we should all be doing or what you believe evolution wants us to do... I really don't care. I don't eat meat and no evolution, Dalek, or tool weilding crow can change a thing about it. Only I can if I ever decide I want to eat meat after all. So far I've been doing fine without it for the last 15 years and I don't miss it one bit.
It's an OO world.
public class Naerling : Lazy<Person>{
public void DoWork(){ throw new NotImplementedException(); }
}
