Animal rights - are they serious? Animal research & sustainable meat

[henryscat]

At the end of the day I am pleased that vaccinations are available for my children so they do not die, that the makeup I wear does not cause me to come out in a rash and that I can eat tasty food. And if that has been achieved by testing on animals I salute their furry little souls and hope we can once day test things without resorting to crude methodology but at the moment we do and there is very little that can be done about it at this time.

Can't quite tell if you're being serious... Non-animal testing methodologies are far from crude, which obviously I'm sure you've bothered to look into to arrive at that conclusion. What does come across is an attitude of utter selfishness.

 

[ToriRat]

What can I say- I am incredibly selfish, as long as me and mine are ok anyone else- including animals can take a flying leap...

 

[Gramaisc]

I'd still eat a squirrel, though.

If the opportunity arose.

I just popped into Mr Anslow to enquire after the availability of squirrel and he said that he doesn't get much call for it and it can be difficult to source.

Thinking about it, if you shoot at a squirrel, then you have to consider the situation should you miss and the bullet wanders off into the air. Deer, etc., are a bit easier, apart from being a bigger target, as you can rely on a miss striking something like the ground or a tree fairly nearby...

 

[tek-monkey]

My bro in law got me a pigeon yesterday from the farmers market, I shall report back when eaten.

 

[Gramaisc]

no Sunday newspaper

Don't exaggerate, man. No newspaper at all - except the free stuff that gets shoved in my box randomly.

Although I do get Private Eye, of course, but that is bought for me by a client. It is possibly the only real newspaper left..

Actually, I do, on occasion, but the Laois Nationalist, especially when it has front page stories like this. Somehow, one can't imagine our own Jeremy Lefroy giving an opinion like that and it passing without further comment......

 

[Gramaisc]

I've always been a little sceptical about attracting extra-terrestrials - in case they have the same sort of attitude as we do.....

Great minds think alike. It seems that Stephen Hawking agrees with me..

 

[tek-monkey]

I heard he lurks here a lot, picks up most of his ideas that way.

 

[Gramaisc]

This programme was about artificially grown meat, not textured vegetable protein, but real meat grown outside an animal and available without killing an organism, as such. Interesting ethical situation for veggies...

 

[shoes]

Now that IS interesting.

 

[tek-monkey]

Old news, they did it on Eureka in season 2!

 

[shoes]

Old news, they did it on Eureka in season 2!

What if they could splice it with tree DNA and meat on a stick could literally be produced in a lab.

 

[Vault_girl]

Old news, they did it on Eureka in season 2!

Was thinking that! The episode was on the other day. "it's organic".

Obviously the idea of meat grown in this way seems both kinda horrific whilst at the same time good because there's none of the "suffering" which veggies are so against.

 

[tek-monkey]

So, any veggies here that'd eat this stuff? Am liking the idea of natural meat on a stick, cross breed cow with bamboo and a touch of chilli

 

[shoes]

Veggies like to moan and whinge, they'll find something wrong with it. Unethical use of incubators or something.

EDIT: I don't get what's so horrific about it, people eat venison, mechanically recovered meat and cheese strings, this is nothing in comparison.

 

[tek-monkey]

You've made me hungry now, I want a mechanically recovered venison string!

 

[Gramaisc]

Where is the nearest emporium selling squirrel meat?.....

What America does this year......

 

[John Marwood]

I went Vegan for a weekend a couple of weeks ago - I was staying with some young types who follow this way of life

Have to say - entirely due to a couple of amazing cooks the food was wonderful

Trouble is I was trumping for about three days afterwards

Big Trumps - Towering trumps actually


Captain Raspers

 

[tek-monkey]

Well thats enough to put me off, nowt like a good meat fart!

 

[basil]

Well thats enough to put me off, nowt like a good meat fart!

Agreed on that and who in their right mind would want runny yellow poo?.....

 

[John Marwood]

Well thats enough to put me off, nowt like a good meat fart!

Agreed on that and who in their right mind would want runny yellow poo?.....

I think its time to cut the brandy intake with paracetemol

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