Little Things that Irk You 4Ever

[charlesr]

Buying organic stuff fed on a natural diet free to move around makes for better meat anyway - healthier, bigger muscles. It costs more, but you get more. Buying the cheapy stuff probably isn't actually cost effective.

[kryss]

I find it so weird that we don't yet have synthetic food yet, or at least as far as I know. All our food still comes from living beings. I'm a meat eater but I'm a self-hating meat eater, which doesn't in any way make it better. The amount of lives we take each year appalls me. But I'm probably unusual in counting plant life in there too. How freaked out would someone be if they walked into a sitting room where every piece of furniture was made from cow bones - skulls, ribs, femurs? But we'll happily use wood all over the place. That was a life. It's acceptable because the life is so different to ours. But then even within what we do with animals, we're so picky. Who would wear a cow head hat? But we use its skin for everything. And when you start to look even slightly deeper, like just things such as where rennet that is used to make cheese comes from, the whole thing is pretty hideous.

There are good reasons we take steps to hide these things from our daily lives. And yet they are still there all the time.

I love Quorn, yet it hasn't made it to North America yet. Sad.

['Press Start']

I always try to buy organic grass fed meat that way at least in some small way I know the animal was well looked after and cared for despite its purpose of going in the food chain.

At least you are trying to make a concious decision to avoid the intensely farmed meat.

[Decider-VT]

Good on you, mate. I agree that we can advance to a point where we don't need it and I think in many cases we're quite close. I'm trying to cut down. While I'm of course not against eating meat I do feel a personal responsibility to reduce my contribution to the factory farming industries at the very least. Here in Japan tofu is cheap, widely available a pretty good source of protein. Especially the dried blocks that have a texture quite like chicken breast. Natto is high in protein, too, but an acquired taste for less adventurous types(I bloody love the stuff, especially on spaghetti with mayo).

Thanks. I haven't tried much tofu, beyond fried Thai stuff. I'm probably missing out! I'll have to check natto out as well. My wife is always asking me what I'd eat when I finally visit Japan, so getting a head start is probably a good idea. Spaghetti and mayo, though?!?

I love Quorn, yet it hasn't made it to North America yet. Sad.

Quorn is the best thing ever. It's like Tru Blood for omnivores.

[Colin]

Quorn is the food equivalent of being made to play your favourite ever retro game on a mobile phone with no physical controls. Your eyes may tell you it looks the same, but when you try it out it isn't as good as the real thing and leaves a bad taste in your mouth.

[k0pp0]

Slight work-irk. Had someone preach to me about using the correct information when involved in ordering server parts for a project. Of course that would be fine if I happened to work in said someones team. Which I don't.

So rather than helping, I had a lecture on what I should be doing - with the eventual output of just leaving me to spin.

However, I had a smiles today as well.

[nakamura]

Quorn isn't food. And I like tofu

[JazzFunk]

Anyone remember that old Tales Of The Unexpected where a guy discovers this sound frequency and finds out that plants feel pain?

Imagine the moral pickle we'd be in if THAT happened.

[QualityChimp]

Anyone remember that old Tales Of The Unexpected where a guy discovers this sound frequency and finds out that plants feel pain?

Imagine the moral pickle we'd be in if THAT happened.

I remember that one! Proper freaky.

[kryss]

Quorn is the food equivalent of being made to play your favourite ever retro game on a mobile phone with no physical controls. Your eyes may tell you it looks the same, but when you try it out it isn't as good as the real thing and leaves a bad taste in your mouth.

You not had the quorn red thai curry? Hamazeballs right there.

[prinnysquad]

Quorn is alright with sauces, herbs and condiments slopped arl ower it.

Too much meat gives you a fat lard gut. Isn't that right, Nakamura?

[nakamura]

I don't actually eat that much meat. I just eat too much in general. But then I ****e multiple times a day to compensate!

[randombs]

Anyone remember that old Tales Of The Unexpected where a guy discovers this sound frequency and finds out that plants feel pain?

Imagine the moral pickle we'd be in if THAT happened.

I believe the average person's guilt when killing something is based on two things: perceived intelligence/usefulness and death cries.

We'll happily swat flies because they don't make a sound and are relatively unintelligent compared to us. Yet every time there's an alien invasion in films the people complain and try to reason with these higher intelligences who view us as flies to be swatted

If you love animals then Japan can be pretty horrid(although many countries have cuisine that can be cruel to animals, like foie gras). We ate prawns that were grilled alive. The man put them on the grill and they were flailing about then he put a metal cover over them. There's a restaurant where they cut out the beating heart of a frog because it's good for stamina or something. On telly a guy was cutting an octopus while it was alive. I dunno if each tentacle can move independently of the brain but I had an argument with my gf about this. Her reasoning was something along the lines of us applying our ideas of pain to different animals that may experience it differently. Essentially she was trying to say that flailing prawns might not be in agony. Also something about respecting the animal for giving us life, but basically saying that dying is dying whether it's painful or not so what's the big deal.

Madness. If all we have to go by is our own reaction to pain then that's a pretty good measurement device, I think.

[JazzFunk]

It's crazy innit? I've whittled it all down to the point we live in a murderous world, we're all expendable, and I essentially have the same value as those teensy weensy bits of gristle in a ?1 Iceland lasagne. Ego means nothing, I am essentially a chicken McNugget.

In many ways I value that honesty of brutality you mention because I'd be a hypocrite otherwise, all the meat I eat has been murdered, and not by me, it's all suppressed and hidden, mechanized and sanitised, you lose the respect for life, it's good to SEE the truth. Used to be an ex-slaughterman night porter at work, lovely guy actually, one of the most philosophical, well-adjusted guys you could meet, retired now, he had some stories.

[smouty]

I've not tried tofu curry but I would imagine it is similar to tempeh which is lovely.