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Headings: Archive for August, 2007
Archive for August, 2007
Who’s your daddy?
Bloody mess
The nutless white meat
Low wattage
paleolithic bites
mesolithic bites
neolithic bites
ancient bites
oldest bites
older bites

Content: Posted in birdcage liners, what were they thinking? |
The nutless white meat
August 2007
If there could be verbal gavage, every soft-headed opponent of foie gras would be forced to read the WSJ’s amazing piece on piglet castration. I still feel guilty about the gap between my Siamese’s back legs, and he at least was knocked out before we dealt with the feline version of “boar taint.” Now I know about 50 million “mostly unanesthetized” piglets are de-nutted in this country alone every year, primarily to keep the meat from tasting funky. And to me that makes overfeeding look like Thanksgiving. The story said animal rights activists have forced Norway to ban the procedure by 2009, and of course producers there are bitching and producers elsewhere are nervous. And consumers should be queasy as well — the solution being pushed is, naturally, a vaccine that would do the castrating. But hey, what’s one more hormone in the food supply when ducks are gorging? Posted in fear of reincarnation, ill wind, leaking hearts |
Low wattage
August 2007
The biggest laugh lately was the chef suing Gordon Ramsay because what was shown on his reality show wasn’t real. The second-biggest was the lede W buried in its feature on Gwyneth Paltrow: