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If You Know How a Cow Feels, Will You Eat Less Meat?
Scientific American ^ | 07/11/2013 | By Anne C. Mulkern and ClimateWire

Posted on 07/12/2013 7:29:20 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

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To: SeekAndFind

Another no here. I think I’ll grill a burger right now.


21 posted on 07/12/2013 7:46:11 AM PDT by FXRP
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To: Archytekt
if you look at a cow you will see a large cube of meat with four short legs sticking out below.

Minecraft?


22 posted on 07/12/2013 7:48:40 AM PDT by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: SeekAndFind
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23 posted on 07/12/2013 7:49:01 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Dress like a cow and get your lunch for free today at Chick-fil-a.


24 posted on 07/12/2013 7:49:02 AM PDT by fulltlt
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To: SeekAndFind

Hold the prof under water for about an hour so he can learn how fish sticks feel.


25 posted on 07/12/2013 7:49:08 AM PDT by CrazyIvan (I'm so conservative I won't even wear progressive bifocals.)
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To: tumblindice

This article really mooved me.
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I found it absolutely bovine.


26 posted on 07/12/2013 7:49:26 AM PDT by pax_et_bonum (Never Forget the Seals of Extortion 17 - and God Bless America)
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To: SeekAndFind
No need for this: there's been an abundance of supply since last October, when I was diagnosed with diabetes. I think my meat intake has dropped to less than 1/2 pound per week, if that.

Oh, I've made up for it in other areas, as I follow Dr. Fuhrman's "Eat to Live" regimen (80-85%). Just had my second followup: HbA1c was 5.0, after being taken off metformin in February. Blood glucose has ranged between 100-115 over the past five months. Cholesterol in the 150s.

It's worth checking him out.

27 posted on 07/12/2013 7:49:31 AM PDT by Night Hides Not (The Tea Party was the earthquake, and Chick Fil A the tsunami...100's of aftershocks to come.)
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To: SeekAndFind
I love cows. They're delicious. Don't listen to the propaganda. </sarc>


28 posted on 07/12/2013 7:50:27 AM PDT by Perseverando (It's ALL about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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To: SeekAndFind

This study is absurd as it only simulates the last few minutes of a steers life. There is a lot of “life” before that and much of it is unpleasant in my opinion. There are many videos on Youtube and elsewhere that depict the commercially-raised lifestock experience. It is pretty disgusting in my strongest opinion. But for me, vegetarianism is simply not an option.

So I got me a place outside town recently, and have begun raising chickens (for eggs and meat), turkeys, geese, pigs, and goats (for milk, mainly). I did so mainly because I have lately begun to think that meat and eggs and milk I raise myself is healthier. And tastier! Time will tell.

But also because I want to give my animals a life that is as happy as they could get. They are all pastured and pretty much do animal stuff all day. Which is mainly foraging for food and working stuff out, i.e. one-upping each other and looking to get lucky. Not too far removed from a corporate environment. And then I will give them a dignified and relatively painless death.

As for beef, we simply do not have enough land for a steer. So this fall we will buy a grass fed steer from a neighbor. So, problem solved.

Not sure when I became concerned about the treatment of “meat animals” as I grew up in the Texas Panhandle in proximity to dozens of feed lots. Can’t explain it, just happy to have an alternative.


29 posted on 07/12/2013 7:50:46 AM PDT by 2big2fail
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To: edpc
VEGATARIANISM IS MOIDER!!!!

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30 posted on 07/12/2013 7:51:43 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: goodnesswins
OMG.....wonder if we could get money to study what it feels like to be a LIBERAL IDIOT!

Yes, but they still wouldn't taste good on the grill.

31 posted on 07/12/2013 7:53:19 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: madison10

Good point on abortions! Betcha they won’t think of that one.


32 posted on 07/12/2013 7:55:41 AM PDT by beaversmom
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To: SeekAndFind

And this is supposed to be “scientific?” Wow! What passes for science these days????!

Do these buffoons seriously think that crawling around on all fours gives anyone the real sensation of being a bovine? The only ways to do that are to either channel Hillary Clinton or have 90 percent of your brain removed.

But I repeat myself ...


33 posted on 07/12/2013 7:55:55 AM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: rey

Actually, animals do feel pain as acutely as we do. They react differently because an animal in the wild that lays around feeling bad gets eaten. That’s one big problem dealing with prey animals like horses and cattle. Unless you are really experienced by the time you notice that they are sick, it can be too late.


34 posted on 07/12/2013 7:56:56 AM PDT by Himyar
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To: SeekAndFind

That would be NO!


35 posted on 07/12/2013 7:57:04 AM PDT by SECURE AMERICA (Where can I go to sign up for the American Revolution 2013 and the Crusades 2013?)
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To: SeekAndFind

We just need to raise cows that WANT to be eaten

(Just read The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy)


36 posted on 07/12/2013 7:57:04 AM PDT by Mr. K (There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.)
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To: goodnesswins

“OMG.....wonder if we could get money to study what it feels like to be a LIBERAL IDIOT!”

Don’t bother because I felt good when I was in the room when we fired their sorry asses. Oh, you mean them? Who gives a sh&t.


37 posted on 07/12/2013 7:57:20 AM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company after the election, & laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: SeekAndFind

I have heard that sacred cows make the best hamburgers.


38 posted on 07/12/2013 7:57:33 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Mr. K

Cows are just the larval stage of human feces.


39 posted on 07/12/2013 7:58:33 AM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Let’s take this same thing and make it an unborn baby. Then we can undergo an abortion.


40 posted on 07/12/2013 8:00:44 AM PDT by pas
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