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

[Gramaisc]

Presumably you would agree to using prisoners convicted of rape, murder and pedophilia as test subjects instead?

Where the USA goes now......

Worrying, as I really don't trust the judicial system. What do the prisoners get out of it exactly?

Interesting cost/benefit analysis here....

 

[Gramaisc]

South Korea buries one million pigs alive to stem Foot and Mouth outbreak. Can this really be true?

 

[tek-monkey]

I'd have eaten them! Just chop off their feet and mouths, innit!

 

[Gramaisc]

I would pay good money to watch you eat a million diseased pigs.

 

[Withnail]

A cautionary tale on the dangers of squirrel meat.

“I was trailing a squirrel and crouched to shoot it with my blowpipe when I saw the tiger.

"That's when I realised that I was being trailed," Mr Gediu said after surgery.

Malaysia tiger mauling stopped by wife with soup ladle

 

[Gramaisc]

A lot of our food preferences are simply cultural. Insects are quite efficient at converting themselves into food, I understand.

Another programme about insects as human food - http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0146104

 

[Withnail]

I was in a locust swarm once - not as a locust before you ask, though if i had been i could have hummed a tune on my hardened wing case .

Every insectivorous species there went ballistic gathering them up - if i had to call it, i'd have to say that the duck was the most enthusiastic, the humans a very close second.

The zebu were above that kind of thing.

 

[Gramaisc]

I have eaten grasshopper/cricket/cicada once, can't be too sure what they were - tasted rather like chicken, I thought.

 

[tek-monkey]

Crickets are a bit nutty.

 

[MyCult]

Crickets are a bit nutty.

haha!!

 

[Gramaisc]

More 'insects as food'.

 

[Gramaisc]

More 'insects as food'.

The EU has issued a report on farming insects for human consumption and animal feed.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-34476742