having a sense of appreciation/understanding of where your food comes from is a very real and important thing. and being concerned with eating naturally raised food is nothing to scoff at, either. i think going off and killing a buffalo is a little... odd. but i guess he wasn't concerned with the waste involved as much as just getting his hands dirty, so, more power to him. and buffalo is quite tasty, too. at least compared to corn fed stock beef, yuck.
I want to start eating chicken for 2 meals a day, but after reading a lot of comments...is that bad for me? I buy the cheap "Great Value Skinless boneless chicken breasts." Is there any more natural chicken i can buy and what is it called? Or is it all just a bunch of baloney from people who watch too many documentaries?
Uh, yeah. We shouldn't treat food as just something we mindlessly shovel into our mouths for sustenance.
Who says? If you want to give your food a hug, feel free......as long as it tastes good, I don't care who shot it. DD
It's not about hugging your food, it's about being cognizant of the fact that a living, sentient being died to put that steak on your dinner table. Most people like to ignore that fact, and it's one of the (many) reasons why people in this country tend to have an incredibly unhealthy relationship with food.
We're all thinking it, so I'm just going to go ahead and put it out there. I think the new, slim you and Donny would make a really good pair. Talk about an upgrade.
this is the norm in japan where animals such as tuna are typically ritualized out of respect prior to being carved and sometimes all the way through to the sushi chef. the ritual itself may not amount to much in a practical sense, but it does show that the people there appreciate the fact that a life was ended so they may eat
yep, and they're also the biggest whale hunters by far. maybe their culture has bi-polar disorder :grin:
I do not think going and killing a buffalo is odd. There is a sentiment that buffalo leaves a smaller carbon footprint and that it is a better choice health-wise. I am sure there is an element of him enjoying the hunt. Still, people need to realize that eco-tourism and hunting are keys for saving the environment and the eco-system.
Eating the offal is one thing but did he use the bones, the hide and the hooves? I understand there are many people who use every part of the animal such as using the bones as food and/or tools, the hide for leather, the sinew for thread and etc.. I doubt Zuckerberg did and I have a very hard time looking at this as some noble act akin to indigenous people doing so out of pure survival needs. I've read some excerpts of Ominvore's Dilemma and am well aware of all of the problems of factory farming. That said I don't think Zuckerberg going on a safari so he can eat a bison is anymore environmentally conscious when you look at the energy expended per carcass. I would respect him more if he just decided to shop from a local organic free range farm near where he lives than flying out somewhere so he could say he eats what he kills.
Except if you want a connection with your food shouldn't you also consider the environmental impact of your food? Also why limit it to meat? How connected are we to the corn syrup in the can of coke that we consume? Perhaps I am jumping on this because this is being portrayed as some noble Rousseau like act of getting back to nature when I suspect how he went about this was anything but natural. Sure he shot the bison and ate it but the process of getting there was likely very different than a native American doing so for subsitence would have. As I said in the post above I would have much more respect for him if he just shopped at his local farmers market or directly from local organic farms. If he really wants to have a connection with his food go to the farm outside of town and see how they raise it and butcher it rather than flying out to Wyoming, or whereever he went, to hunt a bison.
I thought it was a euphemism for too stupid and inexperienced to convince another person to pay you unless they are sitting right next to a pot of money you has broughten to them.
