Explaining to a vegetard what's good about meat is like explaining the vagina to a gay man. Also, Free Mumia!

I love reading the comments section on posts like this - mainly for felix's replies. They make me chuckle.

I'm always amazed at how militant and nasty meat eaters get. There's no way around the fact that it's cruel, period. It's necessary to justify and rationalize and make nasty jokes to block out the suffering of these animals.

Look at all the "reasons" it's okay to be cruel above this message! Oh wait, where's the "I care about humans more" excuse? As if one rights issue precludes the other.

For every expose on animal cruelty there's always the same bunch of standard comments:

1) The I think I'm funny "mmm, they're tasty!" comments

2) The hunter "nature is cruel" comments

3) The rationalized evolutionary arguments

4) The rationalized but misleading and generally false nutrition comments

5) The false environmental arguments

.... I could go on, but the main point is meat-eaters, you're not original, not funny and ultimately participating in a cruel industry.

"I'm always amazed at how militant and nasty meat eaters get. "

Right...

rabbit tastes good.

actually in third world countries meat is expensive.

so eating critter and game animals is perfectly normal.

if more americans could actually 'stomach' slaughtering, gutting and skinning their meals we would opt for rabbits and poultry instead of walking into the house with a goat carcass.

anyone remember the original christmas carol, guy walks in with a whole feathered goose and the kids start salivating like dogs. times have changed.

anyway, rabbit tastes good, and on the platter it looks like a little dead skinned dog, but YUMMY!!!

This should shut felix up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUQ7YKYpGqM&feature=related

Balance, balance. Such a wide range of treats, all to be enjoyed. Veg-, carni-, omni-? To each by their own predelictions without bias. Rabbit every day, no thanks. But for the varied taste (as with squab, pheasant, gator, venison, rattlesnake, octopus, etc.) so nice to have a panoply of tastes available. Even the stately chimpanzee enjoys the occasional Colubus. And no, I won't post the link.

when did it become Hip, trendy, foodie or whatever to eat rabbit? rabbit was sold at butcher shops with one paw not skinned. if you could find them, they're usually in butcher shops the yuppies don't go to. why rabbit? why not Squab? could it be the profit margin? I've seen frozen rabbit at the chinese supermarket.

if it's good then great but I suspect otherwise.

You can still see rabbits, fur and all, in the windows of butcher shops along Arthur Avenue. I too doubt that these Italian grannies are all in it for the trend factor.

Yes, those are the butcher shops I've seen rabbit in,

Hell's kitchen, the butchers in the west village, and your arthur ave. Not Fresh direct, etc. so, when did it become hip to eat rabbit? will the NYT write it about it next?

we know grannies don't give a crap about foodie trends.

what gives? why over 135 comments? c'mon now.

I can't speak to the existence of a foodie trend to eat rabbit. I've been eating it my whole life. It's the first thing my grandmother has ready and waiting for me when I go visit her in France. Braised with pearl onions, carrots, olives, baby white mushrooms, in a little white wine and rosemary. Served with a couple buttered boiled potatoes, with parsley. Fantastic.

Most of you can't post anything relevant except that you going to eat some animal tonight. BAscially you saying fuck the planet, fuck animals but in the end it is you that is fucked (obesity, heart disease, cancer etc). Karma is good

Again, obesity, heart disease cancer, all are neolithic diseases, that became increasingly prevalent as people switched their diets from being based primarily on hunted meats, eggs and a little bit of veggies and berries, to primarily based on grains and fruit, vegetable oils, with little meat, little saturated fat.

We have evidence of this in the study of ancient Egyptian mummies. Their diets were made up up mostly of grains, with most of their fats coming from olives. They had massive amounts of heart disease and obesity. Lots of wars too. The cultivation of grain is what propelled humans into technology driven warrior societies. Cheap abundant fuel for the masses. The quality of that fuel didn't and still doesn't matter, because the masses are always expendable. That's why grain is so important.

Hunter societies were peaceful, and respected the land and the creatures in it much more than agrarian societies do. But they don't exist anymore. We've all fallen under the tyranny of grain.

SP, while some of your points are thought provoking, it is misleading to suggest that Egyptians ate mostly grains and that’s what caused their health problems. There is no proof of that correlation. In fact, the mummies with evidence of heart disease were higher status Egyptians—those who could afford mummification-- and meat eating was quite common amongst the wealthy. It is also inaccurate to suggest that hunter-gatherer societies ate mostly meat. In fact, gathered vegetable foods were the main source of nutrition for most hunter-gatherers and still is. Only those hunter-gatherers in colder climates, where plant foods were scarce, depended more on meat for sustenance. The !Kung hunter-gatherers’ diet was 67% plant-based, with the bulk of their nutrition coming from the mongongo nut. We are evolved from a largely plant-eating ancestry, with animal foods playing only a minor role. This is because animal foods were harder to acquire. Even if you believe a hunter-gatherer diet high in meat is optimal for us, you will be hard-pressed to replicate it today with factory-farmed meat, which is high in saturated fat. The hunter-gatherers were eating wild, lean animals, not corn-fed domesticated cattle. So you suggest a return to grass-fed beef. The reason farmed animals are fed grain is because it would be impossible to produce enough grass-fed beef to satisfy the current demand for it. If you are a yuppie, you can afford your grass-fed beef, but if you are poor you will have to continue to eat grain-fed beef until even that is no longer sustainable. The bottom line is that you cannot justify eating meat based on the idea that it is somehow the optimal diet for humans or more nutritious than a vegetarian diet. The evidence is just not there. And there is no getting around the fact that factory-farmed animals are treated inhumanely. It’s not someone’s opinion, just fact. Because I can maintain good health on an entirely plant-based diet, I’m going to choose not to eat animals who have been mistreated.

By the way, I agree with you about soy. Now I only eat fermented soy, i.e. tempeh.

when you post comments against felix, your basically post so others can read, since he ignores anything factual.

peta make's him rabid.

Interesting points, you seem to know a lot about the subject.

Rabbit stew, excellent idea for Easter dinner.

Can you make money at this? I need a job.

This article is only 4 hours old and already had over 109 comments so this one will likely go largely unread, but I'm gonna post it anyway:

Killing 400 animals a week does NOT fall under "sustainable"

Why not? They fuck like, uh, rabbits.