MetaFilter posts tagged with Animals and food

It's THE DELICIOUS.

kliuless — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:42:29 -0800

SCIENTISTS have grown meat in the laboratory for the first time. and with a little further extrapolation...

In-Vitro Meat will be fashioned from any creature, not just domestics that were affordable to farm. Yes, ANY ANIMAL, even rare beasts like snow leopard, or Komodo Dragon. We will want to taste them all. Some researchers believe we will also be able to create IVM using the DNA of extinct beasts—obviously, "DinoBurgers" will be served at every six-year-old boy's birthday party. Humans are animals, so every hipster will try Cannibalism. Perhaps we'll just eat people we don't like, as author Iain M. Banks predicted in his short story, "The State of the Art" with diners feasting on "Stewed Idi Amin." But I imagine passionate lovers literally eating each other, growing sausages from their co-mingled tissues overnight in tabletop appliances similar to bread-making machines.

BONUS /. & electric sheep [animal 57] also see:

Slow beef - "So... by 'docile', you really mean 'mentally retarded'"
Meet Your Meat - "The turkey wasn't always so dumb"
On the domestication of human beings - "humans in the last 30, 40, or 50,000 years have been domesticating ourselves"
Benton's smoky ham and bacon - "The very rise and continuing existence of humanity is based on the widespread slaughter and extinction of other large mammals"
Is It Ethical To Engineer Delicious Cows That Feel No Pain?
In The Barn

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Happiness is a warm puppy. ~Charles M. Schulz

bigmusic — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:57:36 -0800

Dogs were probably the first animals animals to be domesticated - because we wanted to eat them.

Fancy some endangered fetus soup?

booknerd — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 15:04:20 -0800

Endangered pangolins (scaly anteaters) have been heavily hunted in China to supply a large demand for food, particularly fetus soup (warning: graphic photos), and Chinese medicine. "Proceedings of the workshop on trade and conservation of pangolins native to South and Southeast Asia" [PDF] a report from TRAFFIC (Wildlife Trade Network) was released yesterday. More on pangolins previously on MetaFilter

Animal Rights History - source documents and more

mediareport — Mon, 12 May 2008 07:23:52 -0800

Animal Rights History collects quotes and original source documents from historical figures concerned with animal welfare, animal rights and vege tarianism throughout history, including John Locke on kids' cruelty to animals, Voltaire on vivisecting dogs, the author of history's first protected species list, lots about Pythagoras, timelines, a survey of anti-cruelty laws and more.

Not quite your Vonnegut

casarkos — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:50:26 -0800

Undercover video (warning: very graphic) released by the Humane Society reveals abuse of animals on the slaughterhouse floor and other code violations. In comparison, some (also graphic) documentation of cow slaughter under Certified Humane standards, and hog slaughter conforming to USDA guidelines (both from chef Chris Cosentino's blog, previously posted here)

Earthlings

homunculus — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 16:00:33 -0800

Earthlings (1 hr 35 min Google video) is "a feature length documentary about humanity's absolute dependence on animals (for pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and scientific research) but also illustrates our complete disrespect for these so-called 'non-human providers.'" Also in three parts on YouTube.

Hey! Come on! Eat me!

miss lynnster — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 20:14:45 -0800

Suicide food. Yep, some animals just have an inexplicable death wish. Classic. Creepy. Cute. Sporty. Distur bingly sexy. Just plain confusing. These animals all have one thing in common. They're freakin' tasty.

The Killing Of Civet Cats

MiguelCardoso — Mon, 19 Jan 2004 18:22:01 -0800

Is It Politically Incorrect To Decry The Eating And Killing Of Civet Cats? Is Western consciousness of hypocrisy (due to the enormous number of animals we kill for food) preventing us from criticizing countries, like China, where practically all animals are eaten? Is sentimentality and the protection of animals we regard as cute better than having no qualms at all? I'm sure that the ratio of animals killed-per-capita is higher in the West than in China. Is there any moral difference? Probably not. Why, then, is it so shocking?

dfowler — Wed, 28 Mar 2001 08:21:52 -0800

"If a Chinese cannot understand why Swiss people get so upset that they are eating St. Bernards, I would ask that same question: If Swiss people eat China's panda, how would Chinese feel?"

I expect they'd ask for a bite of the penis.