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      I joke that it’s the Very Wasteful Caterpillar. Damn thing eats a single hole through the middle of a fruit, abandons it, and moves onto the next food item. Not cool, caterpillar. Not cool.

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            Traditional pasta was folded up to 100 times because of the impurities in the pasta. It’s not necessary with modern materials and mostly done now for ornamental lasagna.

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      Horse meat is absolutely tasty, and if it wasn’t so unpopular it’d probably be in the same price range as beef, overall the market is quite small, and absolutely zero horses are raised for meat. Bluntly said at the end of a horse’s career an owner is asked “do you want an urn, vacuum packs, or not pay anything I’ll sell the meat”. If your dietary preference for meat is animals which have been loved and pampered all their life horse is a very good choice.

      Trouble with the scandal back then was that it was all untracked horse meat. And there’s plenty of horses around which get treated with veterinary drugs that make them unsuitable for human consumption because no owner is prioritising slaughter over their health.

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        Horse salami is sorta kinda common I would say. Not as in “in every household”-common, but still not unusual. Can’t remember what it tastes like tho.

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        I ate horse meat before. It was chewy, and I have special ethical issues with it, like for me it’s like eating a Dog. It does not matter even if it where tasty.

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          Your dog would not mind eating your horse. Your dog also wouldn’t mind eating you.

          There’s two principal reasons why people make a difference between cats/dogs on the one side and horses on the other: The degree to which they’re family, but very crucially also to the degree to which horses, or cows, very much aren’t carnivores, it’s about position on the foodchain, how much heavy metals etc. accumulate, that’s not just a modern thing it’s always been the case. That’s why eating dogs is an exception among human cultures, while with cows not eating them is the exception.

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            I removed myself from the food chain a decade and a half ago by forgoing meat entirely. Now I don’t have to have weird moral arguments with myself.

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              Nah, you’re just occupying another spot on it. And unless you’re an algae or something, literally living from light and elements floating about in the air and sea, you’re not at the bottom.

              The ecology expands beyond your pet ethical considerations.

              Side question: Would you begrudge your dog eating your corpse? If you love them so much, why don’t you feed them, when that is all you have left to give?

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              That just means you’re a much higher water burden, and part of a different problematic chain. Vegetarian and even worse, vegans have loads of problems that are just as bad and sometimes worse than a normal diet when it comes to mass food production. Including displacement and harm of animals due to farming requirements for the foodstuffs you consume.

              Its impossiable to not harm something living to farm after all.

              About the only real way to avoid all that is self growing algae eating basically only that and being entirely self-contained.

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                You can feel how you want, but the water burden thing is just factually incorrect. A pound of beef uses a LOT more water to raise than a pound of lentils. Or are you forgetting that you also have to use water to grow the stuff that the cow eats?

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                The first paragraph is absolute nonsense, there’s no need to make false statements to justify a position irrespective of whether you’re vegan or vegetarian or anything else.

                In the sensitivity analysis, the environmental footprint of vegan diets is between 5% (CH4) and 38% (water use) of the footprint of high meat-eaters. For low meat-eaters, the impact is between 37% (land use) and 67% (water use) of high meat-eaters.

                Dietary impacts of vegans were 25.1% (95% uncertainty interval, 15.1–37.0%) of high meat-eaters (≥100 g total meat consumed per day) for greenhouse gas emissions, 25.1% (7.1–44.5%) for land use, 46.4% (21.0–81.0%) for water use, 27.0% (19.4–40.4%) for eutrophication and 34.3% (12.0–65.3%) for biodiversity.

                https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-023-00795-w#%3A~%3Atext=In+the+sensitivity+analysis%2C+the,)%20of%20high%20meat%2Deaters.

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    How did I get to thirty before realizing the expression comes from people eating horses when they’re starving and have no other option

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      OHHH

      I thought it’s just because horses are so big, because you’re so hungry that nothing smaller could satisfy your hunger.

      So, if you’re even hungrier than that, the expression could be “I’m so hungry I could eat Jimmy”.

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      Buddy, I’m 41, and I always thought until just now it was saying you were “so hungry you could eat a(n entire) horse.”

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      It’s pretty much an Anglo Saxon exception that horse meat isn’t eaten… It’s not as popular as it once was in Quebec, but it used to be readily available…

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        Well sure, there used to be a lot more horses that died annually, back when they were a primary means of transport.

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          I’m talking about the 2000s… Horse meat can still be found in some groceries, I think it’s still more common in France than in Quebec though

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            I know, I was joking in sort of a not-jokey-very-dry sort of way.

            I wish there was a universal (lawl I’m unserious but being very dry about it) tag. Because that stuff doesn’t translate to text well at all.

            Such a layer of emotion and presentation behind communication to get around! So difficult! And I have a degree based around doing exactly that…

            On a side note, we have dry humor which implies a wet humor and… I’m curious what that is but I sort of don’t want to know…?

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    Where I live it’s common enough that there is a stall in the farmers market that sells horse meat and sausage.

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    I actually ate horsemeat once at a (supposedly) Mongolian restaurant. Nothing memorable compared to other types of meat