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If you look at how sausages are made I think it won't be long until that happens: "We used to kill animals, grind their bodies into a paste and then stuff that
by somedude895 6y ago
If you look at how sausages are made I think it won't be long until that happens: "We used to kill animals, grind their bodies into a paste and then stuff that paste back into their own bowels."
Sounds pretty gnarly when you put it that way.
- eightails 6y agoOr honestly this can apply to much of the commercial meat industry. It usually isn't pretty.
- brnt 6y agoIndustrial meat to be more precise. I've pretty much stopped buying meat from supermarkets, and buy from a local farmer who does his own butching. Funny thing is, it's not even more expensive. No middlemen!
- wombat-man 6y agoThat's kind of hard to do in the US, or at least it was when The Omnivore's Dilemma was written. The author visits a really great farm, but the farmer still had to send out cows and pigs somewhere else to get butchered due to laws about what slaughterhouse facilities need to have. Totally ok to butcher your own chickens though.
- sneak 6y agoMost animal-derived products sound pretty gnarly when you consider them somewhat dispassionately, even the ones that don't harm the animal by default: cheese is an opaque pregnant cow nipple fluid, curdled into solid chunks with intestinal enzymes, strained and squished, and tossed in a cave for a bit to get the mold and bacteria goin'. Best served drizzled with bee vomit.
- Robotbeat 6y agoThat still sounds good to me, actually! :) I like the idea of animal products as a delicacy with the animals treated kindly the whole time, as pets.
- PlatonicSkittle 6y agoI swear, I'm not just trying to ruin your day, but dairy can't really be produced without killing cows. Cows, like all mammals, need to have just given birth to lactate. In practice, this means cows must be impregnated and give birth roughly yearly to continually produce milk. Obviously, it's not economically realizable to raise 3 to 5 times the number of cows but get the same amount of milk, so the calves are sold to be killed for veal.
- toomanybeersies 6y agoGenerally sausages are made from offcuts. It's not like an entire pig is slaughtered, ground up, and stuffed back into its own intestines.