There are a few staple meats that pretty much everybody in America has had at one time or another. A large percentage of people in the United States typically eat beef, pork and chicken. Although beef is slowly destroying the environment through carbon emission, and cattle runoff is creating huge dead zones in the ocean, people still eat quite a bit of it because it’s hard to change our habits, they don’t generally think long term, and McDonald’s is their master.
However, there are many meats out there that are less omnipresent in our society, yet are much better for the world, and often just as tasty. Here below are just a few of them.
1. Rabbit
Rabbits are a white meat. They taste like a slightly juicier version of chicken, and can be prepared in a variety of ways. The only problem with rabbits is, if you eat the wrong one, there will be no Easter.
2. Lamb
Lamb is like beef, but healthier for you, and better for the environment. It is a little harder to eat lamb because lambs are adorable, but just remember this simple equation: the more adorable something is, the tastier it is. That is why the best tasting thing on the planet is Zooey Deschanel riding a baby dolphin into a pile of Teletubbies.
3. Buffalo
Much, much healthier than beef, and just as tasty. Buffalo tastes like steak but without all the fat. It is a little harder to find, but buffalo meat is exceptional for its taste, its texture, and the best part is every buffalo comes with a secret prize somewhere on the buffalo, usually a fun flip book, or a slide whistle–which is why the Native Americans always used the whole buffalo–to get to the secret prize.
4. Duck
Duck is more or less like dark-meat chicken. It has very good skin for crisping, and goes well with most vegetables and a wide variety of wines. Not to mention the added benefit that their stem cells can be used to make futuristic hand grenades.
Comments
Austin
March 4th, 2010 - 1:49:19 PM
That's a water buffalo and not the bison you likely meant... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Bison
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James
March 4th, 2010 - 3:39:17 PM
Buffalo Tri-Tip from Whole Foods Market. Sure, you have to mortgage your home to afford a slab, but sweet mercy it's delicious.
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Observer
March 4th, 2010 - 7:04:43 PM
Steak, beef, and hamburger contains female hormones, girls pregnancy steroids, and estradiols. (SYNOVEX-H, FINAPLIX, and RALGRO hormone implants are injected into steak and meat in the US - Look it up). Encouraging the listed items is even worse. Hares and rabbits harbour Hantavirus, lamb is infested with a skin disease known as Scabies in which sheep are covered with scabs and yet often still sold to you to put the scabs and mutton in your mouth. Bison and buffalo are infested with prions, an extremely dangerous pathogen which eats away at the brain. Meat eaters can fry and eat Rat vermin, cock-roach legs, and parasitic tapeworms. Vegetarians can continue to enjoy chocolate, fresh strawberries, the smell of steamy freshly baked bread, pizza, enchiladas, thai food, cayenne hotpeppers, peach pie, sandwiches, blueberries, and more. Meat gobblers can continue to stuff ground up pig snouts into rectal intestines, eat macdonalds patties moulded out of fecal worm meal, and kiss eachothers halitosis parasite egg-mouths.
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Lamb Chop
March 4th, 2010 - 8:14:20 PM
Are you a vegetarian?
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Unvegan
March 5th, 2010 - 12:56:50 PM
Ha you think that person is a vegetarian? If not, they are just incredibly misguided. Anyway, I think venison and wild boar also deserve to be on this list. Elk is very similar to steak, while a wild boar sausage blows regular pork sausage out of the water.
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Observer
March 5th, 2010 - 4:32:00 PM
BULLETIN: "Prions That Cause Brain Disease Found in Venison Deer & Elk Meat" NEWS: "Centers for Disease Control Prion research stepped up as fear grows of deer disease" Hunters who have eaten Elk & Deer venison meat have now been found with prions in their brain. The Journal of NATURE reports on "venison-eaters who have died with neurological symptoms." At first, reports were sent out years ago claiming that Deer & venison meat had no prions, then laboratory tests confirmed their presence in Deer & Elk. Next, organizations told hunters that the prions were merely found in the brain tissue and that hunters could eat the meat and organs with not a worry at all. Shortly after this, scientists confirmed prions in Deer organ meat. Agencies, advocated by hunters, then released news posts that despite infectious prions being found present in the brain, and organs, that there were No prions in the muscle meat and issued News stories giving the "ok" for deer hunters to freely eat the venison meat. Now, just like CJD, CWD, and Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, Laboratories have now CONFIRMED the presence of prions in the muscle meat (venison). Following this, hunting organizations released reports that although prions have now been found in the brain, organ meat, and venison muscle meat, that everybody could still continue to eat it because it could not be proved that any human died of neurological disease from eating venison-meat. Now 3 people have died due to Neurological problems, from eating Venison meat. Reminder, prions are an entity which essentially eat away at the brain, causing it to have air pockets and holes in one's cerebral lobes, essentially turning the brain into swiss-cheese. Symptoms include damaged cognitive ability, reduced IQ, then followed by loss of muscle motor control, nervousticks, termors in the hands, then in advanced stages seizures, followed by death. A related disease that many may be familiar with which is also caused by brain prions is Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease, vulgarly known as "mad cow" disease due to the fact that afflicted cows begin to twitch and go out of control. As you will recall, if the CDC, and the FDA, and USDA, find even 1 instance of mad cow disease, the entire herd is summarily destroyed, and everything involved in the contagion is quarantined and disinfected. However entities pushing a Hunting agenda continue to cheer on people to relish delicious prion-infected venison deer and elk meat. Jeopardizing children and American lives.
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Observer
March 5th, 2010 - 4:46:24 PM
"Hepatitis E virus transmission from wild boar meat." --- Genotype 3 hepatitis E virus (HEV HEV). Laboratory findings provided direct confirmation of foodborne transmission of HEV from a wild boar meat to humans." = NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16485490 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- REPORT: "Outbreak of trichinella infection after consumption of wild boar meat" Trichinosis is a disease whereby a person eats meat which contains thousands of small parasitic worms. The worms in the meat then burrow, into the person's muscle tissue and there they begin to lay eggs. The eggs form cysts in the person's body, then hatch and begin to eat away at the person's bodily tissues. Reports have come in from multiple countries around the world, confirming humans catching the parasitic worms after biting into pig and boar meat. This includes cases in the United States, Japan, Canada, Poland, Turkey, Latvia, essentially cases of people who have eaten the meat becoming infected, all over the world. This includes so-called 1st world countries where often people have the impression that it can't happen.
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Observer
March 5th, 2010 - 5:07:34 PM
Yes, wild boar meat definitely deserves to be shown on this list--followed right next to it along with this picture from the CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL (CDC) of the delicious parasitic Trichinella worm larvae that are confirmed present in said Meat. http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/ImageLibrary/Trichinellosis_il.htm AND http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/ImageLibrary/S-Z/Trichinellosis/body_Trichinellosis_il5.htm AND http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/HTML/ImageLibrary/S-Z/Trichinellosis/body_Trichinellosis_il3.htm ====================================================== These are actual images of the parasitic eggs and larvae that you are putting into your mouth, that are contained in each morsel of your pig and boar sausage. Straight from the CDC.
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Fry
March 12th, 2010 - 3:29:33 PM
Lamb is an absolutley wonderful meat, and is quite often enjoyed in the UK every sunday. Very versatile, can be enjoyed with mint, redurrant, rosemary or just plain gravy. Any american should try it!!!
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hill
May 1st, 2010 - 6:56:04 PM
No cases of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) in Buffalo. So, Buffalo do indeed have prions, as we all do, but not infectious prions. As for the proveggie preaching, you just gotta wonder about people who think they have the right to denigrate the rest of the world for not following their guidelines. I'm just sayin' ...
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