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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It did work to some extent, but I just found it unsustainable. It went against my personal preferences, my cultural preferences insofar as food is concerned. But, I learned something from that experience.
I eat whole foods to the maximum extent possible now. I've learned to add more vegetables to my plate. I avoid refined sugar and processed food in all forms, at least most of the time.
It's not about deprivation, it's about balance.
There might be chicken on my plate, but not chicken nuggets. I enjoy a good burger, but not one thrown through a car window at a drive-thru. I eat real food, in the purest form practical, made mostly by my wife - the best cook in the world.
I do agree with you. We just got on the wrong foot! Growing our own food is the only way.
I go to a little farmer stand nearby, although produce here isn't in season. They get their produce in Florida right now and haul it up. I'm a tomato snob - I want field grown, not hothouse, and there is definitely a difference. Interestingly, they're still cheaper than the grocery store, and I don't know how they manage to do that. Sadly, they didn't have naval oranges today - they get the best I've ever eaten. But they did promise that watermelons weren't that far away. They always get the good kind with seeds, not the tasteless seedless varieties.
I was tempted to get some green tomatoes today, but took a pass - cutting back on fried stuff at the moment.
Yeah the wife and I eat out regularly and I don’t ever recall seeing that crap on the menu
“embraced by people who wanted to show off how nice they were.”
Virtue signalers are SO annoying!
“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?”
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“Goats are also the pet food of the muzzies “
Also the muzzies’ significant others in some cases, I expect.
I like hard goat and sheep cheeses, such as feta cheese. I agree with you that goats are more versatile and more efficient converters than cattle, of grass, and plants into meat for us to eat. Being smaller, they are easier to butcher than cattle. In days before we had refrigeration, you kill large cattle, you better have a large distribution list to sell that meat before it rots.
Or perhaps the cattle is butchered on market day for selling all the meat and organs.
Very interesting what you have to say about your wild goats. They are good for milk/cheese and good for meat. In Africa too they raise goats. In Kenya the men are so “addicted” to grilled goat meat that the high rate of gout is blamed on this.
Nyama Choma: Tanzanian Roasted Goat - African Street Food!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGtpk_jftEo
Kenyan Street Food - HUGE GRILLED MEAT (Nyama Choma) Tour in Nairobi, Kenya | African Food!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2scxlRTQViE
“Goats are also the pet food of the muzzies”
Australia ships live camels and sheep to wealthy Arab nations, such as Saudi Arabia. To be butchered halal style and fresh as possible. Autrailan also ships them the less expensive frozen. Where I live I only see frozen Australian lamb.
There are some ethnic supermarkets here where I can buy goat meat anytime. The Caribbean people like goat. I have asked, as far as I can tell this goat meat comes from the Caribbean nations.
“They always get the good kind with seeds, not the tasteless seedless varieties.”
Each year I see fewer seeded watermelons for sale and more of the seedless. Walmart is the last one that has seeded, and not all the time. BUT there is a Walmart that is further away that usually has seed watermelons. It is in a more black neighborhood. So I go there sometimes
BTW -— Seedless watermelon have lots thicker rind. So are a ripoff in this way. Sadly, Americans are getting too lazy to deal with watermelon seeds.
“Anything cows can do goats do better”
Goats don’t taste better.
“There might be chicken on my plate, but not chicken nuggets.”
I have never eaten a chicken nugget at Macdonald’s or anywhere. Too much grease and not enough meat. At least for fried chicken, you get a decent amount of meat along with the grease. My favorite chicken is drumsticks. Remove all skin and simmer for an hour. I have some in the refrigerator right now.
People need some meat. You can count on the fact that the elite aren’t giving up their beef. They are changing the Wagyu to F—Kyu when it comes to us.
But you? You get bugs and whatever is in that Beyond Real Food garbage.
People are being “nudged” (a RAT word now) to eat the slop they are promoting. Just another “current thing” they are pushing because it is sooo cool.
Yep, like that crazy new mayor of NY. Trying to executive order what people can eat. The guy is as crazy as De Blasio. Maybe worse.
I love watermelon, and if there is absolutely no other choice, I'll eat a seedless one, but I am well aware that it's inferior fruit.
My farmer stand guy has the best ones. He also has cantaloup, and he'll even pick out a good one for me, asking when I intend to eat it and choosing appropriately - if I'm eating it tomorrow, he can pick one that will be at its peak the next day. He can tell by smelling it, but I can't pick a ripe cantaloup to save my life.
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