Every Dog Has Its Day

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I read somewhere about a plan to genetically engineer cows so that they're born without legs -- save money on fences, I guess.  That a human or group of humans could sit together and plan something so unspeakably vicious ... well, it's Evil in the extreme.  If there's any reality to karmic retribution, these people should suffer it a hundred-fold.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com>
>Sent: Oct 27, 2009 9:02 AM
>To: John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com>
>Cc: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>, pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>Subject: Re: Every Dog Has Its Day
>
>Non-carnivores should delete before reading on:
>
>I've got to keep this book away from my wife.  She recently finished
>Michael Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma," and vowed that she never
>eat corn-fed beef again, which isn't too hard for us with an abundance
>of seafood and freshwater fish available here in New Orleans.  But
>then she found a farmer at an outdoor market who sold her grass-fed
>beef.  The problem is that naturally-fed beef doesn't have the fat
>"marbling" which tastes so good and make for more tender meat.  After
>chewing about half a steak we ground the rest up for a spread, not a
>great way to eat steak.  My next attempt will be to cook it as if it
>were game-meat, marinating for a long time before cooking on low heat.
>
>Genetic engineering might eventually produce meat from animals with
>nearly no brains, and thus no suffering.  Would that be preferable to
>the present meat production?  I don't know myself.
>
>David Morris
>
>On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 5:47 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The egg-layers never end up on the dinner plate - we've genetically
>> engineered two different kinds of chicken, one that produces eggs at a
>> truly unnatural rate (they're made to think it's spring year-round)
>> and one that gets so fat so quickly, it's the equivalent of a
>> ten-year-old who weighs 300 pounds. The ones who are put in the
>> wood-chipper (half of that laying population) have it relatively good.
>>
>> The most mind-blowing stuff in Foer's book is actually about
>> industrial fishing practices, which I've never given a crap about. It
>> enters SF territory. My jaw was hanging for a lot of the book.