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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.
Remind me what plants are fed, again?
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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
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So true. It doesn't get the credit because it's often eaten at a picnic table with lots of napkins. It also uses a lot of cheaper meats. BBQ doesn't apologize for that though. What it does to cuts like pork shoulder is magical though. I smoked a hand made pizza once with cherry wood at like 700+ degrees in my BGE and it was the best pizza I've ever had. I haven't been able to replicate it though because I haven't don…
I like to do pizza in my Traeger, usually with mesquite pellets. Best pizza always. I also like to roast potatoes in it, as well as cook mac-n-cheese (in a shallow dish) to get that smoky flavor. I'll never go back to a regular bbq or grill - even gas. The electronic controls of the Traeger (and I imagine other brands) make things dead simple; set the temp, throw on the meat, and let it go - return back after however…
I do use a small propane grill during the week sometimes though (small Weber Q which I recommend for this purpose). I've taken it to the beach and to friends before.
Def shouldn't be peeking as you mentioned. As the saying goes - if you're lookin you ain't cookin!
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Absolutely. That's the crux of the issue: do chickens' lives and feelings have any value? If so, how should society impose that value system on an enormous industry that optimizes to extract value from chickens' suffering?
After raising my own egg chickens and butchering some of them, my perspective really changed. Chickens are surprisingly smart. After we left our hobby farm I decided to not eat anything smarter than a fish. (I don't eat octopus) I like being Pescatarian. I do try to avoid wild fish for ethical/environmental reasons. Food animals should always come from a farm, obviously.
Don't eat octopus because they are smart
Eat fishes, even those able to detect, hunt, defeat and eat octopus (therefore smarter than them)
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> This is the holy grail of meat substitutes for vegans. Hi, vegan here! I already get all this from plants. > No living thing of any kind is killed, molested, or even inconvenienced in its manufacture (provided you don't look too closely at where the amino acids came from). Where do they come from, then? There is already enough plant diversity to not need to manufacture cells this way. In fact, fermentation of foods…
Amino acids, being chemicals with a particular arrangement of atoms, are completely untraceable if they are pure. As such, they could come from full organic synthesis from ethane feedstock, or from cultured microorganisms, or from plant protein, or from animal protein. They could by produced as a by-product of some other industry. If the company producing the synthetic meat is not particularly cautious with respect t…
1. They look very similar! Both have a large egg/seed in the middle of the white/fruit. Look is important for a substitute, e.g. all of the faux meat products.
2. Nutritionally they're also very similar in terms of fat and protein.
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I prefer chicken thigh myself, but the best chicken I've tasted to date comes from the hands of an experienced chef who made the chicken breast the most tender and delicious chicken I've ever tasted. The dish also included the thigh, but it didn't come close to the breast. It's as if the thigh is much more forgiving but has a lower potential ceiling than the breast which is much less forgiving but can be insanely del…
After drying out breasts using a number of other cooking methods, I've found sous vide to produce breasts that are unbelievably juicy.
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How is a dog special? Compared to say, a rat or a chicken or a cow?
I guess you're assuming that I'm okay with killing rats, chickens, and cows? I'm a vegetarian, so dogs are not special to me in that regard. I only mentioned dogs because I was replying to a comment that mentioned dogs specifically.