Posted on 04/23/2022 1:08:21 PM PDT by dennisw
Americans have renounced beef! Everyone’s eating plants! The vegan trend is supposedly so huge these days, we are in the midst of an identity crisis, The New York Times claimed recently. “When it comes to America’s legacy of Manifest Destiny, there’s perhaps no meal more symbolic than a bleeding steak. So who are we now that we’re consuming less red meat?” the paper of record blathered.
The only problem is that such claims are 100% baloney. Although US consumption of beef fell from about 80 pounds annually per capita in the 1970s and early ’80s to a low of 54 pounds in 2017, it’s steadily rebounded since then to 58.6 pounds in 2021.
Yes, we are eating more beef today than we did five years ago, despite plant-based “Impossible” meat and Beyond Burgers taking over American menus and even McDonald’s.
Chef Daniel Humm became revered in global culinary circles for his restaurant, Eleven Madison Park, which switched to a no-meat menu last year. But his other vegan efforts in New York and London proved unpopular.
Clearly, the “save your body, save the animals, save the planet” movement has not made a dent in actual eating habits, although some zealots are drinking the eco-friendly Kool-Aid — i.e., those plunking down $335 (before tip) for a cortege of microscopic “courses” at all-vegan Eleven Madison Park.
Let’s note that, despite reported high demand for reservations at EMP, which has all of 80 seats, the owners of a new skyscraper, 425 Park Avenue, pulled the plug on a planned new restaurant there by EMP chef/owner Daniel Humm because he insisted on an all-vegan menu. Humm also got the boot from London’s Claridge’s hotel over the same issue.
The truth is that true vegans are scarcer than Bernie Sanders supporters in Miami Beach.
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“...taking over menus...”
As if by majority customer demand...
T Bone on the grill.
Precisely. For example you can't grow much on the high plains of Wyoming and Montana. You are lucky if you can manage much of a kitchen garden with the short growing season. But cattle and buffalo are perfect for this region.
I have a conservative buddy who was vegan for years, for health reasons. Heavily into mixed martial arts. Recently went meat and feels on fire. TBH, his color and stamina is better too.
Eeeeek!!!!
Who wants to eat chemicals? We don’t have any idea what they’re putting in foods. I see new brands out there and I ignore them. Little strange if you ask me.
We grilled NY strips last night. Yum!
I believe in a varied diet. Eat beef a couple of times a week, chicken a couple of times, salmon one night a week and veggie meals the other days like homemade bean and corn soup (complete protein) in veggie broth with chopped celery, carrots, onions. All yummy stuff and good for me. Also eggs every other morning, cereal the others. Drink cows milk. Tried coconut milk on cereal and it’s not bad. Silk coconut milk is the best, slightly sweetened.
Tried a package of Beyond Meat and literally spit out the first bite it was so awful, threw the rest away. I don’t eat pork, but get “Porkless Bites” from a company called Gardien. Actually quite delish.
Among their other crimes and schemes they also wish to punish or eliminate caucasians. If they are successful in instigating WWIII they will have a much easier time of it. Anyone who can stand to watch a few minutes of TV can spot the dehumanization that is the precursor to ethnic violence. It’s truly sad to see the useful idiots on this site tirelessly trying to accelerate this effort. Some are just really gullible and some others see themselves as beneficiaries. Flame away...
Anyways... eat lots of red meat for maximum health.
We ordered 1/4 of a beef. Steaks, roasts, ribs and burger of our reference. The cows are raised here and butchered, wrapped and frozen here. $4.99 per pound for the whole thing which is the same or less than a pound of burger at the grocery store. And the meat is tender and has (gasp) marbling. we could reduce the price a little more if we could store a half a beef.
Everybody.
Everything around you is made up of chemicals and so are you.
I saw Navajo cowboys working when I visited my brother in the southwest. Take their cattle what are they supposed to do for a living?
reference - preference
Chuck eye steaks are a poor man’s ribeye. You typically don’t see them on the supermarket shelves. Check em out, you’ll thank me.
When I want vegies i will buy vegies. When I want meat...I will buy meat. I love T-bones...
Pretty much I have stopped ordering chicken in any form at restaurants. Chik-fil-a is the exception, of course. I don’t go there much. Chicken breast has almost no flavor of its own.It gets its flavor from seasoning. Same with turkey. Pork is the next best thing, but I like to cook pork at home, not get it at restaurants, except at breakfast.
I am not a fan of seafood. Shrimp is no better than an insect, and fish gets stinky in a very short time, which I instinctively think is a sign of it being a bad food source.
I believe that we have a deal with the bovines. We keep their genetics going forever, and in exchange we eat some of them, and use their milk to drink with cookies or put on cereal, or make butter and yummy ice cream. It is a symbiotic relationship. Most bovines would die right away if we weren’t there to keep them alive.
I respect the sacrifice of the bovine species. I believe that if we have meat we should eat all of it, and what we don’t eat we should give to dogs. The dogs are actually a part of the understanding we have with the bovines.
I think we’ve all had enough of chicken, chicken, chicken.
McDonalds hamburgers are made with 100% real beef. That doesn’t mean they are made of 100% real beef.
Chemicals,the stuff of life.🤔
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