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treehugger
09-13-2005, 06:04 PM
Has anybody read this book? I'm halfway through it and I may never eat meat again... :vomit-smi

And even though the title sounds like it, it's not an animal-rights book. It's about prion diseases prevalent in the meat processing industry. Yuck.

http://www.thebukowskiagency.com/DyingForAHamburger%20PV.htm
Kath
Dead Fan
09-13-2005, 06:18 PM
Ewwww I dont know about meat in total but Im definately off of fast food since Super Size me maybe I should read this.
ladywithafan
09-13-2005, 06:38 PM
Oh, the days of being a vegetarian. I read both the Jungle and Fast Food Nation back to back and that converted me to being a veggie for 3 and a half years. Tell me if the book is any good.
room85
09-14-2005, 08:58 PM
I'm vegan already....It's not crime to eat meat, but I prefer not to eat it. It's healthier to be vegan,but I can eat dairy products once in a while if it doesn't taste like it.


EAT ORGANIC! :smilie_wa
oldkzildjians
09-15-2005, 10:18 PM
http://www.local6.com/news/4851623/detail.html

interesting read.
Herbmama
09-16-2005, 01:02 AM
Oh, the days of being a vegetarian. I read both the Jungle and Fast Food Nation back to back and that converted me to being a veggie for 3 and a half years. Tell me if the book is any good.

*off topic alert*
I'm a veggie and a never really got why The Jungle put so many people off meat...kind bothers me that that the only real attention it gets and people mostly gloss over the fact it was written as a socialist manifesto.

*please return to your regularly scheduled "Meat is gross" thread*
;)
toman
09-16-2005, 01:04 AM
I like meat, I eat it every day... :D
treehugger
09-16-2005, 05:19 AM
http://www.local6.com/news/4851623/detail.html

interesting read.

LOL...they'll probably take cells from an animal infected with some undiscovered prion disease and give everybody this "test tube" meat that will end up giving them dementia....

On an aside, I finished the book. It was a very interesting read. The author really made a pretty convincing case between our modern meat industry (factory farms and the large slaughterhouses, etc), and dementia. My mother has dementia.

I want to do everything in my power to prevent it...

I recommend this book highly. I may not be turned off to meat in it's totality but I'm definitely turned off of "typical" factory farmed/non organic meats.

Kath