There's so much wrongness in this thread I don't know where to start, but I will make a point here: you have no idea what you are talking about.
I would gladly eat only the meat I could kill ... if I was a billionaire. I've killed and butchered (sorta) my own meat before from a hunting trip. It felt totally right, like something I should always do.
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Mark Zuckerberg killed a bison... in order to eat it?! This is definitely newsworthy! Bison meat has gotten crazy expensive lately. I stopped buying it and switched to longhorn beef... which is also getting expensive. And ... I let other people kill it.
Did Zuckerberg use every part of the bison, or any other animal that he kills for that matter? Also did he butcher it himself? It sounds like he paid to have it processed. To bring up another point. While a move like this might help make him more aware of where his meat comes from I am not sure what he is doing is any more environmentally friendly than buying a steak from a super market. Consider the energy he expended to take him and I suspect an entourage to go out and hunt the bison, then the energy expended to haul back one or two carcasses for processing and the energy expended processing. I don't have the stats off hand but I suspect a modern factory farm and meat processing facility is probably more energy efficient per carcass, and more gets more ouf of any single carcass, than going on a safari. Just to note I am not defending factory farms and meat processing just pointing out though that when it comes to energy use Zuckerberg isn't saving anything.
because they don't need them. Your question should be...WHY? why give them those shots and those steroids...your questions should not be what is wrong with giving animals shots so they are bigger. Your question should be why?
feed more people. Go tell starving kids in Africa about how you don't believe in giving animals chemicals that make them bigger.
The problem though with giving farm animals antibiotics to fatten them up isn't just about animal rights but about creating antibiotic resistant among harmful bacteria. That is already a real danger to humans as we are starting to lose the effectiveness of many of our antibiotics.
I don't know anything about Native Americans using all of the parts of the bison and didn't mention them doing so. I'm talking about people around the world who hunt and kill animals and use almost all of the animal like people in Africa, South America, and Asia. Those were two separate paragraphs and two separate thoughts that you combined into one.
There's another article somewhere that talks about Zuckerberg learning under an offal chef on how to prepare and process the animal after he kills it. Its floating out there on the intertubes just google it. rocketsjudoka and Kojirou, read The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan. It should answer most of your questions about energy efficiency, growth hormones, antibiotics, and selective breeding. Or you can just watch Food,Inc. I'm too lazy to write out something here.
He wasn't doing it to be green, he was doing it because he felt that he should have some kind of connection with his food and where it came from. I don't get why you guys feel the need to jump on him for this.
