Posted on 02/04/2014 7:35:44 PM PST by BenLurkin
My guess would be close to 100%.
You mean you immediately mutilated the cow. Don't think you used a machete though.
***Don’t think you used a machete though. ****
Do you know how hard it is to butcher a cow with just a two inch dull pocket knife and a handsaw? (Actually the woman we were helping had butcher knives in her kitchen, so we just skinned the cow and phoned the beef processor to do the hard work).
The person who wrote the PETA pamphlet must have gotten their ideas from APOCALYPSE NOW, where the natives butcher a cow by hacking it up.
We used one of those on our calves and young cattle before their horns got big. My dad had a set of those BIG ones for larger cattle.
He also had a small spoon shaped one for very young calves. It looked like a gouge for woodwork.
If you missed the root cells of the horn, the horn would continue to grow in a weird shape.
***What are we to make of a world where eating other living self-aware things is our only path to survival? ***
I always remember a scene from HOMBRE in which a upright woman is offended because the Indians often ate dog to survive.
SHE: “I would NEVER eat dog!”
HOMBRE: “When you are hungry enough you will eat dog and fight over the bones!”
If we ever reach a point where each person must grow their own food for survival, you WILL fight for the bones!
***I will be happy when science makes it so we can grow meat in a vat,***
But, won’t that be super highly processed soy burgers? We’ve been warned about highly processed foods by the same groups PETA associates with!
Forty years ago, scientists found how to make artificial beef with fungi.
The problem was, to make it taste like beef, you had to soak the growth medium with beef blood. So, a cow has to die to make artificial beef.
Very true. But that has nothing to do with my original question.
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