What is this colored fiber in my chicken?

Post by Dylan16807 » Tue, Apr 11, 2017, 9:47 AM UTC

pjc50 wrote: post #46

DonHopkins wrote: post #35

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Like "Chicken Little" from "The Space Merchants" (1952) by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth [1]: He swung open her door. “This is her nest,” he said proudly. I looked and gulped. It was a great concrete dome, concrete-floored. Chicken Little filled most of it. She was a gray-brown, rubbery hemisphere some fifteen yards in diameter. Dozens of pipes ran into her pulsating flesh. You could see that she was alive. Herre…

The real, human equivalent is "HeLa", taken without her consent from Henrietta Lacks in the 50s and grown endlessly since then: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HeLa

Post by Dylan16807 » Tue, Apr 11, 2017, 9:54 AM UTC

enibundo wrote: post #246

alangpierce wrote: post #175

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From the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html > Please don't bait other users by inviting them to downvote you or proclaim that you expect to get downvoted. (I also don't think your statement is particularly controversial.)

My bad, apparently they followed my advice anyways. Jokes aside, eat more veggies for your health, the health of those poor little things that are fed shit and antibiotics daily in very bad environements, and last but not least for the health of the earth.

Post by ikurei » Tue, Apr 11, 2017, 10:51 AM UTC

jshevek wrote: post #258

ikurei wrote: post #34

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Still, we can do something about it right now. We may need meat, but we don't need meat in every meal; if we reduced the consumption of meat, we could conceivably switch to more expensive, less efficient, more humane ways to grow animals. If you can afford it, you can also only buy meat from non-intensive farming. Or stop eating meat all together. I just don't think it's morally right to wait for a solution that may…

"We may need meat, but we don't need meat in every meal" Is it still a common belief that we 'need meat'? I thought it was well established that humans in normal health do not _need_ meat to thrive - especially with our current technology and industry. We can easily meet all of our nutritional needs without any animal flesh.

Post by gargravarr » Tue, Apr 11, 2017, 12:02 PM UTC

pillowkusis wrote: post #268

if this disgusts you for moral/guilt reasons there is a good solution. Eat less meat! You don't have to go full vegan. I think people employ black and white thinking about this -- either I eat all meat or I become vegetarian/vegan and eat no meat. That's hard, and you're likely to fail (hard cutting to vegan would be quite difficult, regression rates after a few months are sky high). Instead, simply resolve to eat le…

Post by kurmouk » Tue, Apr 11, 2017, 4:15 PM UTC

pillowkusis wrote: post #268

if this disgusts you for moral/guilt reasons there is a good solution. Eat less meat! You don't have to go full vegan. I think people employ black and white thinking about this -- either I eat all meat or I become vegetarian/vegan and eat no meat. That's hard, and you're likely to fail (hard cutting to vegan would be quite difficult, regression rates after a few months are sky high). Instead, simply resolve to eat le…