Meat Stinks

Physiologically, people are more akin to plant-eaters, foragers and grazers, such as monkeys, elephants and cows, than to carnivora such as dogs, tigers and leopards."

"For example, carnivora do not sweat through their skin; body heat is controlled by rapid breathing and extrusion of the tongue. Vegetarian animals, on the other hand, have sweat pores for heat control and the elimination of impurities."

"Carnivora have long teeth and claws for holding and killing prey; vegetarian animals have short teeth and no claws."

"The saliva of carnivora contains no ptyalin and cannot predigest starches; that of vegetarian animals contains ptyalin for the predigestion of starches."

"Flesh-eating animals secrete large quantities of hydrochloric acid to help dissolve bones; vegetarian animals secrete little hydrochloric acid."

"The jaws of carnivora only open in an up and down motion; those of vegetarian animals also move sideways for additional kinds of chewing."

"Carnivora must lap liquids (like a cat); vegetarian animals take liquids in by suction through the teeth."

"There are many such comparisons, and in each case humans fit the vegetarian physiognomy. From a strictly physiological perspective, then, there are strong arguments that humans are not suited to a fleshy diet."

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Human beings are omnivorous. That's why they have canine teeth as well as incisors and molars. And secrete hydrochloric acid. Human salive contains ptyalin because we eat vegetable matter as well.

Hands off me bacon sarnie!

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I DO like a reasoned response......and a bacon sarnie is an excellent reason.

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Or a nice juicy steak...

Mmmmmm......!

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My Grandad used to say "If your hungrey enough you'll eat owt!!" I agree with him!!!

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meat stinks...?

maybe when it comes out the other end but that goes for all food ;)

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Ah well a nice BLT yum best of both worlds covered in one bite pmsl:)

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It takes 5 million years to get to the top of the food chain and then we eat vegetables, doesn't make sense.:)

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My father was stationed in Japan as part of the occupations forces after the war. One of the things he told me about his time there which has lurked in the back of my mind is that to the Japanese, Westerners have an offensive body odour. This is mainly due to the fact that our diet is rich in red meat and dairy produce.

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i 'm with the majority ,,,give me a lovely crispy leany bacon butty

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A nice piece of rump steak blue with all the trimmings yum yum.

:D

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I for one would be quite prepared to eat a lovely crispy vegetarian! Because the only way they seem to be able to get rid of the wind their diet creates is to spread their cr*p around for the rest of us to endure!

If you don't want to eat animals I say good for you,

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I've often thought of trying vegetarianism but unfortunately I like my steaks too much. If we weren't supposed to eat animals then they wouldn't taste so good would they...;)

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David had a Malaysian girlfriend years ago, and she said that Westerners smell different because we eat lamb. I must admit I'm not wild about lamb, and I loathe cold lamb, but I do like mutton.

Just don't ask me about the pig's head .....

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Mine doesn't, it smells like pot pouirri.:)

I love meat.:)

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Most people can just say bacon without associating cruelty behind it.can order a pizza with a couple of bits of bacon on it,without thinking that just to satisfy there taste buds a piglet was born raised in cruel conditioned then dragged out off its pen to have its throat cut by a nice animal loving slaughter man just to satify your palate I to used to like the odd piece of bacon but stopped to look where it really came from,so next time you order a pizza with those 5 or 6 peices bacon on it. just stop and think.

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It's called choices.

Where do you stand on the testing of drugs on animals?

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Most people can quite easily say bacon, without thinking about the cruelty behind it,most kids today wouldn't know death is connected to the word, they might just see the picture of a happy smiling pig on the side of the butchers van,I personally think that they should run school excursions to the slaughter house,show them where it really comes from, and it isn,t just the slaughter house where it all happens, maybe they have images of the farmers daughter cuddling a little piglet on her knee, GET REAL So the next time your order a pizza with a few peices of bacon on it just to satify your taste buds Think DEATH & CRUELTY !
Not Bacon. I'am not knocking anybody for eating meat I have been there to,but just to think beyond the word.

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What about all those poor defenseless little potatoes?

All they want in life is to grow up and be big potatoes, go and get a job as a lawyer, or whatever, and retire on a nice pension.

But, no, they get dug up before they are even old enough to go to nursery school, then they get boiled alive.

And you say we are cruel to animals...

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And the farmers would continue to keep animals if we all went vegetarian.
I admire your conviction, and applaud your choice, ah, yes choice....we all have that option.
I choose to eat meat. I haven't any control over the way animals are reared and slaughtered......and choosing not to eat meat is not a viable way to improve an animals life or death.

There was a farmer on North West Tonight last night.....he was a sheep farmer.....he had 400 sheep..... he had names for all of them.....he was leaving his farm and selling the sheep..... he had tears in his eyes and said they were all different to him... though they all looked the same to us. Don't tell me he was cruel to them, because it was obvious that he loved his flock. He may be in a minority, but somehow I don't think so.

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Come on expat, I asked you a question.

What about the testing of drugs on animals?

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So thousands of years ago when cavemen went out hunting for food, they should have stopped and thought to themselves "mmm maybe we should have leaves instead and let the poor animals run wild and eat us instead"??

i dont think so!!

Yes we kill them but we kill them straight away! c'est la vie!!!!

i for one wouldnt give up my meat.

you say they should teach kids about slaughtering, have you ever seen lion king?? where the father lion is teaching his son that he is in a food chain and in order to stay alive he must hunt for food? is this teaching kids wrongly?? i think its correct i used to watch animal shows with my parents and used to feel sorry for the animal that got eaten and my mum and dad used to say its the circle of life and that the predator needed to eat too, after i watched lion king i understood what my parents were trying to tell me by saying circle of life,
i wonder if youd feel so strongly if you got eaten by a cow or a pig?? :confused:

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There are countless examples in the medical journals where drugs and other chemicals react differently in people and animals (7):

* cortisone produces birth defects in mice but not people, whilst thalidomide works the other way around;
* morphine calms people but excites cats, goats and horses;
* penicillin is highly poisonous to guinea pigs and hamsters;
* insulin causes birth defects in animals but not in people;
* the antibiotic chloramphenicol produces the blood disease aplastic anaemia in some human patients but it saves animals;
* in dogs, the muscle-relaxing drug tubocurarine causes a severe fall in blood pressure but is comparatively safe for people (8);
* and doses of aspirin used in human therapeutics are poisonous to cats.


Experiments sometimes claim that species differences are rare. But in fact they occur frequently. Surveys have shown that most of the side-effects occurring in people when they take a drug cannot be correctly predicted by animal experiments (7). Nor can the problem be overcome by using more species of animals.
This is illustrated by the drugs aspirin and fenclozic acid (7). Aspirin causes birth defects in rats, mice, cats, dogs, guinea pigs and monkeys but is considered safe for pregnant women. The arthritis drug, fenclozic acid, causes liver toxicity in people but not in rats, mice, dogs, monkeys, rabbits, guinea pigs, ferrets, cats, pigs and horses.

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okay so you know your stuff.

i take it you must spend hours and hours in the supermarket looking for products that have not been tested on animals?? how about certain things you wear aftershave? toiletrie products,..............

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http://www.mercola.com/2000/apr/2/vegetarian_myths.htm

Along with the saturated fat and cholesterol scares of the past several decades has come the notion that vegetarianism is a healthier dietary option for people. It seems as if every health expert and government health agency is urging people to eat fewer animal products and consume more vegetables, grains, fruits and legumes. Along with these exhortations have come assertions and studies supposedly proving that vegetarianism is healthier for people and that meat consumption causes sickness and death. Several medical authorities, however, have questioned these data, but their objections have been largely ignored.

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Quoting facts and figures didn't really answer my question again. Are you in favour or against the testing of drugs on animals as a vegetarian?

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Reducing tha amount of animal fat eaten does not reduce cholsterol levels significantly.....in fact most of the cholesterol is manufactured by the liver. The only effective way to reduce cholesterol levels is to take one of the statins.

And as far as vegetarian diets go.....what about the level of pesticides that are being found in the fresh fruit and vegetables at the moment. So, it seems to me that however we try to improve our health by diet there will be some survey or other that will tell us that we are doing the wrong thing.

I am going to eat the food that appeals to me the most.....life is finite, it might as well be enjoyable.

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People say you wouldn't eat meat if you saw how they are killed etc. I would be happy to kill whatever animals I chose to eat though. How does that fit with the ideology of vegetarianism? We have factory farming of animals because people want chicken at £1/lb. It is a commercial necessity to raise livestock that way to meet the costs that we teh public will pay. Would you be happy to eat meat that has been ethically raised? How much extra would you be prepared to pay to ensure they have been well looked after and killed in as humane method as possible. Would it change your views on eating meat?

I buy my lambs from local farms and collect them when they have been slaughtered. That way I feel not only am I getting top quality meat I am also supporting my local farms. Likewise with vegetables, local market(or even better farmers markets) offer better quality produce at lower prices. Yet teh majority of people trudge down to the ASDA week in week out.

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im not bothered how its killed as long as it gets cooked properly and feeds me why should i bother, got to build myself up for the worms when i pass away!!! wouldnt want the worms to starve! :D

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Maybe its the pesticides that are the problem not the meat.

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Here is a thought if a potato can grow roots a carrot top planted produce another carrot and a pea another plant does that mean these plants are alive when put into a pan or eaten raw? At least my meat is dead at the time of cooking.

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Hehe By the way you keep asking it looks like you have something lined up to say, depending on the answer he gives. To be honest thou nobody really has to disclose any personal feelings on any matter if they so do not wish, well not here anyways. But it would make a good topic for another thread.

I myself am probable like most folks, I eat the lot. I eat meat, fish, vegetables and some other stuff. ;) ... Fruit is the other stuff in case you are wondering.
I have never really been persuaded one way or the other. I simply enjoy what I eat. Farming and slaughter houses, out of sight out of mind. Others may think I’m ignorant but that’s me.
Doesn’t seem to matter what you eat these days some scientist will tell you it’s bad for you.

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as an animal i am in favour of the testing of drugs on vegetarians :D

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I do enjoy eating meat, and I have visited the slaughterhouse. I had to go during my nurse training in 1989. It did not put me off meat at all.. Many would say that it is equally cruel to eat fish, despite its nutritional content.....:)

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You could easily argue the way fish are killed is cruel. Dragged out of the sea by the hundred and left to die on the deck.

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Just to close this forum: I wasn't always a vegetarian And I have eaten my fair share of steaks on the Barbie, but my wife and I gave up for maybe differant reasons, we first started off just by having a meat free day then it turned into two and so on. At first it takes a lot of thought how to cook a meal without using meat. but now its quite easy and it opens up your cooking skills, like I have said previously I not knocking anybody for eating meat and I can sit next to anybody tucking into a thick steak. maybe I was just trying make people more aware of the Cruelty Involved in todays
Meat industry.and maybe next time, someone out there might think do I really need bacon on that pizza. If I was going to eat meat again free range would be be the way to go.
And Garanda I personally don’t believe in animal Experiments and convince otherwise,

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Lol, were you too weak to finish the sentence or spell my name correctly?

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Well tie to a stake and flog me for that simple spelling mistake, Garanda Giranda who cares. Have you got your proof yet.

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Hello,
What makes you think that just because you started this thread and because you are losing you can now close it down!

If there were no slaughtermen I for one would be prepared to raise and kill my own animals.

Just coming on here and quoting a few extreme facts from some veggie site does not make you right, vegetarianism is not the way, the light or the glory.

For every so called fact that you give us I can probably find ten good reasons for sharpening my carving knife and turning you into Sunday lunch! (come to think of it that won't work you seem to be a bit of a cabbage and I hate vegetables).

If you ever get the time visit Church Kirk right next to the gates there is the tomb stone of the man that started the vegetarian society, he died in his forties, hardly a recommendation for a healthy lifestyle is it?

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Who say,s I,am right , There's a lot of angry people out there maybe it's all that red meat.

Less your to good for me. can you recommend a good butcher.
P.S did I get your name right.

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It more likely is caused by that piece of gristle between your ears!
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you are good

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No I respect your right to be a vegeatarian, it was just that the last sentence of your post didn't make sense and ended in a comma?
I do think the title of the thread was a little inflamatory though, meat stinks just as much as cabbage, though the stench of cabbage tends to linger for longer than that of meat.:)

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And Garanda I personally don’t believe in animal Experiments and convince otherwise,

Still confused as to what that is supposed to mean?

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When the winb blows free give me steak over lettuce anyday. :D

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Yes I can see how you would get confused. I'll try again, can you give me any evidence that animal experments work or name a drug that as been tested, just on animals. and worked and try and be grown up about your answer without stooping to finding petty little spelling mistakes,and if you can come back with a reasonable answer I'll debate, if not subject closed.

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It looks as if eating meat must help with punctuation, and the formation of statements that make sense, for a start.:)

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Ketamine. It also works on humans so might not count?

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It's no good keep going back to re-edit your past posts, try and concentrate and move forward with your argument, and keep the narrative going, because so far the logic to your point still leaves me confused.

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Hi expat
Thanks for starting this thread. It has proven to have been a quite an interesting one. Unfortunately the wolves are gathering and the thread as some what deteriorated.

So with that I shall close the topic for you and save you from any more unnecessary agro.
Cheers.