Meat & potatoes. Potatoes & meat. This, we’re told, is what REAL men eat.
And since faggots, feminazis and minorities got the upper hand, it’s one of the last legal ways left to show you’re a HE, not a girly, man.
Slabs of two-inch thick sirloin, raw red bleeding steak tartare, slathered baby back ribs and double bacon cheeseburgers are
food that’ll make a man out of you. Food that’ll put hair on your chest. Mmmmmmmeat! Man food good. Man food better! Man food best!!!
Leave the fruits and vegetables and dainty salads full of lettuce to the pussies, wimps and sissies, limp-wrist girly-men and faggots.
But… the biggest, strongest animals are usually strict vegetarians. Do you see the dilemma? Tell all that macho bullshit to sperm whales, elephants and gorillas, or that veritable vessel of testosterone, the magnificent El Toro, but no…
Real men don’t eat quiche. They’re real mean and real lean. Yeah, right, scarfing beer, hot wings and cheese fries that make them belch and fart all night as they sit on their flabby asses watching pro athletes taking hits glomming potato salad and beef tacos. It’s no wonder they can’t shit.
Not to mention all that cholesterol massing for a fatal attack. Ah, but a real man can scrape off all that atherosclerotic plaque and ream out his own blood vessels with just his two bare hands, before he’ll be outdone by any wimpy cardiac spasm.
Mmmmmmmeat, it’s the totem of Big Strong Man the Hunter who likes to think the lion, wolf and tiger are his brothers. But these snarling manly carnivores never see where they get their meat. It’s bopped, strangled, gutted and sold as wrapped-in-plastic pieces to spare him from puking out his guts at the sights, sounds, and smells of slaughter, but somehow he keeps thinking meat gives him a hit of animal power
because once real men did hunt to supplement their subsistence and they believed the animals they killed had offered up their existence that man might live, so man honored them, humbly receiving some of their strength when man took animals’ bodies into his with reverence, not contempt.
So what does it say about modern man that meat tortured and executed for his delectation is dispatched far from his sight in the remotest of locations? Man does no tracking, waiting, watching, chasing, no fighting animals in a contest for life or death. The quality transferred in this case is the submissive, domesticated essence of a powerless, castrated slave reporting dutifully to do his work, much like the neutered, corporate poodles who become the grossest macho, meat-eating jerks
in an effort to prove their manhood after they check it at the company door. Farting, scratching, belching and bullying is not what masculine strength evolved for.
If meat makes you such a goddamn man, stand up and take care of, once and for all, what’s really crawling around in your pants, crushing and breaking your balls. It’s not the wife, the kids and the dog, or the guy who cut you off in a bigger truck, it’s the way you’re forced to kiss the ass of some arrogant, corporate supremacist sucker
who ripped off the benefits you contracted for, sent all the best jobs to East Asia, and then expects you to thank him for it because he’s the one who pays you.
Do you think the sonofabitch could even begin to do all that money-producing work on his own? He needs you and your brothers to do it for him then has the balls to toss the money-makers bones.
Vi's works appear widely both in print and online. She conducts Poetry Workshops and gives readings in Central New York. Her latest chapbook is "Sine Qua Non Antiques (an Arcanum of History, Geography and Treachery).
Your name calling is just as bad as the people who eat meat. But the one big difference is we meat eaters dont go around holier than thou and tell people they have to eat meat Oh and by the way the biggest and strongest animals are vegans ???? First of all the sperm whale eats meat all the other large whales part of the diet is small animals called krill and check out a t rex some time
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mike (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 92 comments)
on Monday, January 14, 2008 at 10:50:25 AM
I appreciate what you said, and am familiar with the holier than thou thing. My daughter is a vegetarian and constantly lectures me about eating meat. But she is getting through to me. Like most people, I don't want to hear about the problems of eating meat. I like meat! But my attitude has changed due to her logical arguments and appeals to my conscience. So I rarely eat meat anymore. I have to agree with her, it's horrible to live off of other creatures who haven't got a chance. It's not like we're hunting them. We're just farming them, farming live creatures to eat them. Reminds me of a science fiction story where humans are farmed to feed other humans.
Anyway, eating meat isn't just bad for your health, it's bad for the planet, and it does support the giant meat industry, which is polluting our country with animal wastes and making us more oil-dependent by using petroleum-based feed and the high-energy requirements of factory farming. It takes 100s of times more energy to produce a pound of meat than the vegetables and grains that also provide protein. The meat industry is making billions while harming our health and well-being.
I recommend reading The Omnivore's Dilemma, a national best-seller by Michael Pollan. It will open your eyes to the food issues we face everyday. Pollan isn't a holier-than-thou vegetarian, he's a journalist who set out to find out how our food is produced and describes the connections between what you put on your table and how it got there. It's fascinating.
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Cynthia Papermaster (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 9 comments)
on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 2:02:43 PM
A pound of beef takes a gallon of petrol to produce.
3# of grain needed for a 1# of chicken
15# of grain to make 1# of steak.
We broke the red meat habit 20+ years ago and our 90% vegen daughter pushes the ball further in the next generation. Change comes slow but a change is a coming.
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tjb (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 234 comments)
on Monday, January 14, 2008 at 11:13:18 AM
In case any other omnivores (like me) read this and get their boxers or tighty-whiteys all in a bunch... I don't think Vi is really talking about "eating meat." "Name calling?" You bet! The bullet-headed beady-eyed slack-jawed sports-snorfing nazkar patriots deserve all the mockery they can get. oooo... it won't "win them over?" Nothing will "win them over," the azz-kissing pseudo-macho bully-boys can't reconcile that they got nose up bosso's patoot.
The best they know how to do is spread the misery. Ever see a "factory farm?" It isn't about meat. It's about profit at the expense of your own humanity. Escape THE MEATRIX!
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waldopaper (11 articles, 3 quicklinks, 25 diaries, 431 comments)
on Monday, January 14, 2008 at 9:58:09 PM
Meat eating-- the elephant in the room, the biggest hypocrisy and delusional act in modern society. Even peace activists don't see the irony in subjecting animals to torture and cruely killing them on factory farms, which, as the writer points out, makes us supporters of the huge corporate meat industry, the fertilizer industry (using huge amounts of petroleum), the corporate energy companies who profit from energy-intensive factory farming, and the destruction and pollution of the earth with animal wastes. We don't need meat, but if we want to eat a little, then choose humanely raised animal protein from sustainable farms. Don't buy the cheapest meat and poultry; it's toxic.
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Cynthia Papermaster (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 9 comments)
on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 at 1:45:37 PM
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