Posted on 10/11/2016 2:52:46 PM PDT by JimSEA
When we eat beef, chicken wings, hot dogs or spaghetti bolognese, we do it in denial. Already by referring to what we eat as "beef" instead of "cow," we have created a distance between our food and an animal with abilities to think and feel.
The meat paradox
"The presentation of meat by the industry influences our willingness to eat it. Our appetite is affected both by what we call the dish we eat and how the meat is presented to us," says Jonas R. Kunst, a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Psychology, University of Oslo.
Kunst and his colleague Sigrid M. Hohle conducted five studies in Norway and the U.S. In the first study, chicken was presented at different processing stages: a whole chicken, drumsticks, and chopped chicken fillets. The scientists measured participants' associations to the animal, and how much empathy they felt with the animal.
In the second study, participants saw pictures of a roasted pork -- one beheaded the other not. The scientists examined their associations to the animal, and to which extent they felt empathy and disgust. They also asked participants whether they wanted to eat the meat or would rather choose a vegetarian alternative.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencedaily.com ...
Did you think they had cow retirement homes?
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Good article!
Our meat consumption was justified originally in the sacrifice of Yom Kippur.
Without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin!
Is this all just more of the attack on the word of YHVH?
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The people from Grit slaughtered a “COW.”
You were so smart you didn’t even notice that “nonsensical” act.
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Actually, very little ‘cow’ meat ever becomes human food.
The reason is that they are taken when “down,” thus not able to acquire the USDA stamp.
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We don’t all share Grit’s lexicon.
Many dogs and cats give thanks to the Lord for it, however.
I know you pick whatever lexicon you wish in your shining intelligence games. Just wanted to furnish it back to you.
Is that anything like having a cow which this idiot appears to be doing.
Right, NorthMOuntain. As far as I know, using diffeent words for the edible product and the animal only occurs in English, and it has nothing to do with psychological dissociation. Why?
It’s because of the Norman Conquest (1066 AD). The Norman invaders spoke French, the Anglo-Saxons natives Old English, a variety of West Germanic.
The Normans were the gentry. The Anglo-Saxons were the peasants. Thus the Anglo-Saxons raised and slaughtered cows, calves, pigs, chickens (all Saxon-German derived words) and when it was served at the gentry’s table, it was termed beef, veal, pork, poultry (all Norman-French derived.)
The mystery revealed.
Go back to school, ya dumb bumpkins from the University of Oslo.
Sorry, no ‘hit’ just a misfire.
Switch to Speer Gold Dot! :o)
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When you get to be judge just because you are you, that is absurdly easy to say.
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Were the Anglo-Saxons not mostly themselves Galatians too?
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Just trying out your shtick.
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And now the middle class can be easily confused because it isn’t eating cow or pig.
Thanks for proving my point to a T.
“When cows are unable to either give milk or make baby cows they become beef.”
Best used for ground beef(cow), stew meat, pot roast, any other tenderizing cooking method. Otherwise, use a cold chisel and single jack to tenderize.
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Our cats don’t seem to have time for prayer. (but they are still “thankful for the ‘cow’ they get!)
Uh, not quite lol
For instance a cow is “la vache”, and that is a cow, not a steer. Beef (steer) for eating is called buf or viande. And beef steer animals are also called bovins de boucherie and bouvillons/bovillions for castrated steer.
I looked at a pig that we are going to have butchered this week and cried and then I thanked him for his sacrafice (sp) to us for decent food to eat.
We have rabbits, and chickens that we eat, eggs from the chickens and its now deer season and I eat deer meat with great joy.
I just about gag at the “meat” in the grocery stores, can’t bring myself to buy it.
The way things are going there won’t be many people like us that raise our own food for the most part. “They” want us all in cities.I’m old enough that it might not happen to me and my DH, but the younger generation for sure.
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