Humans continue to make a name for themselves

[dave from knoxville]

Yeah, both my dogs are way livelier since I changed their diet (each gets one raw chicken leg/thigh quarter in the morning, and for supper a mixture of about a half pound of raw meat--usually beef or pork, 'cause my options are limited--a couple of dollops of ground vegetables, three or so tablespoons of egg, a bit of oil--fish and olive--and supplements).  I wish I fed myself as well as I feed my beasts. 

I'm impressed that you're on a raw diet.  It must indeed be very hard.  Christ, for the first time in my life I'm actually thinking about the possibility of giving up meat and eventually going vegan, but the thought of no more dairy especially gives me pause.  Giving up grains on top of everything else would push me over the edge.

 


I don’t think ill ever be able to go completely raw, it’s too difficult to make three filling meals a day. But I do agree with the raw foodist stance that human and other animals bodies were never meant to consume cooked foods.

Is that a faith-based stance, or is there evidence to back it up?

[erika]

We were also meant to be covered in thick, heavy body hair to protect us from the elements while we used blunt rocks for tools and hoped that someone would bless us with the discovery of fire and perhaps the wheel.

That, and women were meant to give birth while in the standing position and not in these comfortable hospital things they have now-a-days.

Ever see clan of the cave girlbear? THAT'S the way to live!

(Don't even get me started on what those Canine teeth were used for...)

[Sarah]

I believe giving birth standing up (actually, I bet they squatted) would be drastically better than doing so in the prone position so favored by the obstetric classes till recently. 

[Andy]

I saw some shampoo that had animal placenta in it the other day.  it made me feel icky just holding it.

[John Junk]

Yeah, both my dogs are way livelier since I changed their diet (each gets one raw chicken leg/thigh quarter in the morning, and for supper a mixture of about a half pound of raw meat--usually beef or pork, 'cause my options are limited--a couple of dollops of ground vegetables, three or so tablespoons of egg, a bit of oil--fish and olive--and supplements).  I wish I fed myself as well as I feed my beasts. 

I'm impressed that you're on a raw diet.  It must indeed be very hard.  Christ, for the first time in my life I'm actually thinking about the possibility of giving up meat and eventually going vegan, but the thought of no more dairy especially gives me pause.  Giving up grains on top of everything else would push me over the edge.

 


I don’t think ill ever be able to go completely raw, it’s too difficult to make three filling meals a day. But I do agree with the raw foodist stance that human and other animals bodies were never meant to consume cooked foods.

Tell that to my asshole.


Hey, you guys have been great.  I'll be at Rascals Thursday night.

[Sarah]

Thanks so much, Matt.

[John Junk]

[youtube]oIjfIZQkHMk[/youtube]

I understand there is an overlap in themes, but I think this belongs more in the "War Makes People Do Sick Things" thread than in the "People Are Mean To Animals" thread.  Also, when we have troops making tortured-naked-Muslim human pyramids and have known about it for five years, why would this be a surprise?

Edit: That's not really what Matt posted.

[erika]

That's it. I'm never clicking on another YouTube video that's been posted in this thread again.

(You could consider warning a person before you post something like that. For fuck's sake.)

[Martin]

Is it real though?

[Dorvid Barnas]

I can't bring myself to watch it a second time, but I'm pretty sure it's fake.

[John Junk]

The existential (or is it phenomenological?) fact of this video carries its own resonance.  Whether it is "fiction" or "non-fiction" is, in some respects, irrelevant.

[Sarah]

I like that Xavier has been substituted.

Whether the other video was real or not, it is the kind of thing that people do all the time--and not just in wartime.  In fact, if it's real, I seriously doubt that the tosser (ha!  Brit pun) did as he did because he's in Iraq.  He probably stuck firecrackers in cats' bums as a child.

[todd]

What was posted? I missed it.

[Stan]

What was posted? I missed it.

 A video of an American soldier in Iraq finding a puppy, showing it to the camera and throwing it forty or fifty feet.

[John Junk]

I like that Xavier has been substituted.

Whether the other video was real or not, it is the kind of thing that people do all the time--and not just in wartime.  In fact, if it's real, I seriously doubt that the tosser (ha!  Brit pun) did as he did because he's in Iraq.  He probably stuck firecrackers in cats' bums as a child.

Fair enough.  Some people are just sociopaths.  Xavier is my new favorite art.