(September 2, 2014 at 5:39 am)jesus_wept Wrote: They're not using prime cuts of meat for dog food, they're using waste meat which is not fit for human consumption.And who told you that it is not fit for humans? Traditionally, and I'm talking for 200,000 years, organ meat was considered the prime meat, and the muscle flesh was what was fed to the "dogs"/wasted/given to the underprivileged minorities and the women. After 200,000 years of preferring the organ meats, now we in westernised cultures think that the muscle is the you-bute stuff. And that's partly because we bread cattle and pigs to produce an excess of muscle - you can hardly breed them to produce extra organs! So what happens when people come from eastern cultures is they think our meat is shit because we eat the crap left over instead of the prime stuff.
Now with that said, of course you have to be careful because it does contain higher concentration of nutrients including vitamins. But with that said, a diet consisting of eating liver twice a week as opposed to eating beef 7 times a week will give you, roughly, the same healthy amount of vitamins and is probably a lot healthier. It's only if you want to over-consume meat that's when these so-called "not fit for human consumption" organs can be dangerous.
So get your facts straight before claiming that liver and organ meat is not fit for human consumption - provided you eat it in the correct amount it's fine, and the most nutrient-dense food that exists.
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The WIN/Gallup End of Year Survey 2013 found the US was perceived to be the greatest threat to world peace by a huge margin, with 24% of respondents fearful of the US followed by: 8% for Pakistan, and 6% for China. This was followed by 5% each for: Afghanistan, Iran, Israel, North Korea. -LINK
"That's disgusting. There were clean athletes out there that have had their whole careers ruined by people like Lance Armstrong who just bended thoughts to fit their circumstances. He didn't look up cheating because he wanted to stop, he wanted to justify what he was doing and to keep that continuing on." - Nicole Cooke