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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An increase from 56 pounds to 58.6 pounds is about 74 ounces. That works out to about 1.4 ounces more per week.
***The people trying to remove meat from our diets, particularly beef, due to ‘Global Warming’***
They were trying this over fifty years ago promoting the fear that BEEF causes CANCER!
Interesting side line, After the scientists cooked the steaks, did their tests and found the steaks had enough cancer causing chemicals in them, THEY ATE THE STEAKS! Why waste a good meal!
last week i scored on an aged, tenderized, lime rock encrusted armadillo that was on the dirt road in front of my place...
“You won’t hear the carrot eaters admitting that though.”
I know a whack job who went totally vegan and almost only ate carrots. She literally turned orange.
To quote an Old british comedy team in their song, The Reluctant cannibal.
If the great Juju didn’t want us to eat people, they wouldn’t have made us of meat.
Use the McDonald’s app. The current DCB deal we get is buy one get one for 29c. Of the price us up to 2.29 or more. Used to be BOGO @1.99.
not partial to dog meat...
also kinda like the general tso’s kitten at the local chinese place...
Anyone remember this old song from 1975?
Junk Food Junkie
Song by Larry Groce
(Last verse)
Oh, but folks lately I have been spotted
With a Big Mac on my breath
Stumbling into a Colonel Sanders
With a face as white as death
I’m afraid someday they’ll find me
Just stretched out on my bed
With a handful of Pringles Potato Chips
And a Ding Dong by my head
In the daytime I’m Mr. Natural
Just as healthy as I can be
But at night I’m a junk food junkie
Good lord have pity on me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQnIL-XPerQ
Hard for me to say what the crazy coastals might be eating, or not, but here in the beautiful flyover Midwest, BBQ places keep growing in popularity, not to mention awesome steakhouses and great gourmet burger joints.
**McDonalds hamburgers are made with 100% real beef.**
Remember the rumor years ago they used Kangaroo meat?
The BOGO at my local is walk-in for $1.
Plus the receipt allows for BOGO for free quarter pounder with cheese or Big Mac
I never give personal info.
Week and half ago stopped at one. Did receipt in car on phone. Website, not app
2 quarter pounders with cheese, fries, large Coke - just under $7. Think they accidentally gave me an extra large fry.
I make sure they and the other McDonald’s get 90-95 percent of my McDonald’s business.
I give them high rankings on the surveys.
***How is grass fed beef?***
Wait till you get one that has been grazing on Wild Onions!
Years ago Dad showed us how to overcome the onion flavor. Bite and chew a raw onion before eating the meat.
That is probably why beef is finished out on grain. To get rid of bad flavors.
With Biden causing inflation, the term “Hoover Hogs” takes on a new meaning.
The vegan trend is media made propaganda. People love meat. We are designed to eat it.
Yep.
so you’re happy not knowing what’s in the fake food.
Everything is made of chemicals.
Everything else you heard was your own imagination.
Sorry, that was supposed to be a question. I know everything is made up of chemicals. I want to know what kind?
On a land use acre per animal and usable meat per lb of total weight on hoof goats are twice as efficient as cattle in converting cellulose to animal mass. They are also more water efficient than cattle and more heat heat tolerant. Goats can and do live in the Sahara where cattle struggle to live. Like I said there is a reason goat is the number one consumed ungulate protein in the world by far.
You couldn’t leave Herfords alone on 100 acres in Pecos County to fend for themselves no range blocks no hay supplements no salt cubes. I have at least 20 Nubian goats with that number growing even with losses to coyotes and me shooting some every year hardly little buggers. Like feral hogs they just go about life no humans needed.
I cook from scratch as much as possible, raise a garden and so on in a effort to make sure what my family eats is the best quality it can be.
The guy who said the food is medicine that we eat was not wrong.
Neither was the guy that says that all foods have toxins in them and that is why we have a liver and kidneys.
It's all a balance thing.
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