Posted on 02/21/2024 10:52:09 AM PST by DallasBiff
Those who pick the vegetables often pee and poop on the produce.
As for fruit, it is full of small insects, has been pooped on by birds and while stored has been peed on by rodents.
Enjoy your salad bar.
You have no idea what a free-range chicken has eaten.
I think crabs are good eatin’, and I’ll keep eating them, thanks.
If I did I would probably starve ....
I have caught blue crab at st.simons, best thing ever... eaten yard chickens (if they were bigger they would eat us)... had my own pigs (just don't think about it) ...
deer, raccoon, goat, quail, wild turkey, .... the list just goes and goes ....
Everything that eats eats something I don't want to eat.
Even steers eat things I don't want to.
But by some miracle all those nasty things I wouldn't eat are turned into something I just love.
Amazing how that works.
Unless I know it's been sacrificed to an idol ...it's all good.
Bon appetite! I don’t eat chicken either.
I spent about 6 years in Thailand when I was young from 11 to 16 yoa. We are wonderfully active actually Boy Scout Troop, and I spent a lot of time out on this Farm about halfway from Bangkok to Pataya Beach. The area was very rural back then not like you see photographs of today back then it was tapioca Farms value Beach was a dirt road with a couple of Shacks on it nice Beach but it wasn’t skyscrapers and hookers and everything else he got going on these days it was idyllic and beautiful time to be in Thailand.
The caretakers of this little farm were a young Thai family, a couple of toddlers. This farm had fish that crawled out of the water to feed and the caretakers would net small popcorn fish and eat that with rice and greens.
But what I really remember about that place is the bathroom. There was this rickety bamboo Pier that went out about 25-30 ft into this small body of water and at the end of the pier was a box with a toilet seat on it... the first time I used it was early one morning, I walked out to the box on the end of the pier dropped my drawers took a crap and then the Water started violently roiling underneath the pier! I freaked out! I looked down there and it took me a second or two and I realized the catfish were feeding.
So that became a thing I looked forward to on subsequent visits... going out to the end of the pier and feeding the catfish it was early morning entertainment for a young lad in Southeast Asia.
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Striped bass are way to go.
And flounder and yellowfin tuna.
Rainbow and brown trout from the stream right into the skillet are good too!
(After cleaning of course...)
One animals waste is another’s protein source. Monogastric fecal matter is mostly single cell bacterial mass upwards of 60% of its mass and 60+% of bacterial mass is proteins,aminos and RNA. Humans and other monogastrics are really metaorganisms we have more bacterial and protozoa DNA by mass in our bodies than human DNA. We are symbiotes with our bacterial gut and skin colonies without them we die. Some people on long term antibiotic treatments die from their bacterial colonies being wiped out. The lifesaving treatment is to take fecal matter from a healthy usually family member and ingest it by the person who’s under treatment. It’s in capsules form thankfully not shake form. The capsules survive the stomach acid and deliver the payload of lifesaving bacterial colony to the new host.
Cattle fecal matter is very high in protein if grass fed can be 70% bacterial protein mass it’s little wonder hogs and chickens gobble it up the chickens wait for fly larvae to form then eat everything in sight.
Some Japanese boffin went so far as to make a “burger” paddie from human bacterial protein mass... Just to prove it could be done. Even with the most stringent autoclave sterilization process nope...NOPE
In Vietnam it common to see the human outhouse also above a pond with Mekong River catfish which also can breath air and “walk” flop short distances on land crazy fish. When I see basa being sold in the USA I’m like no thanks that’s poop fish. Same for tilapia don’t ever eat tilapia especially from China or Asia.
Several tilapia species are native to the Sea of Galilee. Fishing for them goes back at least to the Stone Age.
You are right the whole species is from Western Africa and are common in the Nile River system as well. They naturally are herbivorous and clean it is thought that the story of the 5000 and fishes it was a species of tilapia that was eaten.
That said tilapia have been taken to Asia and are grown in horrifying conditions using human sewage waters to feed the ponds which grow the algae that the tilapia eat. It’s also common to have them in the ponds under chicken coup and where the runoff from hog pens is washed too. Hence the never EVER eat tilapia from China or any Asian countries. The stuff farmed here in the USA if not grown on animal effluent I would consider.
A Coast Guard diver friend was recovering a vehicle back in the 80s in a big river think it might have been the Mississippi but I could be wrong, anyway he told me that the dive team got down to depth found the wreck and there was the biggest catfish you can imagine banging on the window trying to get into the vehicle and they backed out of there. He said it was a monster and the head was guesstimated at 2 feet wide. But it was murky.
Fins and scales is my determination of which fish to buy. I remember seeing swai and did a wiki, nope. Tilapia meets the criteria of fins and scales but the farming technique... I have tried it once and it tasted like mud. I hear the salmon that are raised in the fjords of Northern Scandinavia suffer the same problem of close confinement which allows a lot of excreta ingestion as a result.
A cousin of my dad’s has a transcript on the web from an old interview of some kid’s oral project recounting his WWII stories.
He got to Europe just in time for the Battle of the Bulge. He said he never went hungry as the guys were always willing to give him their c-rations with pork in it. After a week behind the lines they moved out. He now understood - dead Germans on the side of the roads with the hogs feasting on them. (He still ate the pork c-rations though!)
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