# Eating Animals That Were 'Saved'. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 23, 2017, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467 "2017-08-23T15:39:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467/61 "2017-08-24T21:34:29Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Nobody has mentioned _The Restaurant at the End of the Universe_ yet? > > “Would you like to meet the meat?” What do you think lobster tanks are for? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467/62 "2017-08-24T22:32:15Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Apparently people used to do things like this; there’s a scene in “To Kill A Mockingbird” where Atticus helps some neighbors remove furniture from their burning house. No, they don’t attempt to put out the fire; they throw furniture out the windows. :smack: Also in the Simpsons, where the pro baseball ringers are systematically disabled, and in Jose Canseco’s scene he heroically saves a woman’s possessions from a fire, one by one. He didn’t get injured or lost like the other players because he is an asshole and bullied the writers into making him heroic. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467/63 "2017-08-24T22:32:53Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > I presume you meant “wurst”, there. Ashes to ashes, dust to a dusting of seasoning rub. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467/64 "2017-08-24T22:45:42Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > Wild turkey are some kind of idiot savants, though. > > I’d like to remind you that the director of both Babe films is also the guy who made a movie series featuring torture, murder, and rape; people being kept as blood and milk puppets, a dwarf using a giant mentally challenged man as locomotion, hacksaw on ankle action, and horror of horrors, Mel Gibson. “The Cars That Ate Paris”? 😕 😛 ---
**Author:** ![HMS\_Irruncible](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hms_irruncible/32/7394_2.png) [@HMS\_Irruncible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HMS_Irruncible)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2017, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467/65 "2017-08-24T23:39:11Z")
Also, it’s better to eat an animal who is saved rather than one who still seeks salvation. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467/66 "2017-08-25T01:14:22Z")
> [@thelurkinghorror](#): > > . . . Nicotine…? Like a heart attack? . .l. Yes. To be clear, he was claiming that a dart full of nicotine would kill a steer quickly. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467/67 "2017-08-25T19:13:26Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Apparently people used to do things like this; there’s a scene in “To Kill A Mockingbird” where Atticus helps some neighbors remove furniture from their burning house. No, they don’t attempt to put out the fire; they throw furniture out the windows. :smack: Keep in mind that public fire hydrant systems are localized mainly to towns and cities, always have been, always will. When our house burnt down 2 years ago, it too _7_ towns worth of tanker trucks to haul the water out to keep the barn from burning. House was a giant soot and detritus ‘snow globe’ but the barn was fine. [yup, you shove high pressure water hoses in all the openings, everything just turns to a giant whirl of soot, embers, household goods and water … when done, the next day the whole inside of the house was pretty much 3 feet deep in yuck. I have pictures of it.] Back in the depression, sometimes even the towns didn’t have fire hydrants, nor really fire trucks. To save your belongings you took them out of the fire … since you can’t save the structure, you save what you can. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2017, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467/68 "2017-08-25T19:58:46Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > Yes. To be clear, he was claiming that a dart full of nicotine would kill a steer quickly. Ah, I missed the “permanently” part of the post, and wasn’t sure if it was to spare public outrage due to death or due to shooting it. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [August 26, 2017, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467/69 "2017-08-26T03:36:47Z")
> [@aruvqan](#): > > Keep in mind that public fire hydrant systems are localized mainly to towns and cities, always have been, always will. When our house burnt down 2 years ago, it too _7_ towns worth of tanker trucks to haul the water out to keep the barn from burning. House was a giant soot and detritus ‘snow globe’ but the barn was fine. [yup, you shove high pressure water hoses in all the openings, everything just turns to a giant whirl of soot, embers, household goods and water … when done, the next day the whole inside of the house was pretty much 3 feet deep in yuck. I have pictures of it.] > > Back in the depression, sometimes even the towns didn’t have fire hydrants, nor really fire trucks. To save your belongings you took them out of the fire … since you can’t save the structure, you save what you can. In the days before most people had insurance, that may have seemed to make sense, although at a cost of a lot of lives back in the day. Several months ago, I had a conversation with a man who, years ago, lived in an apartment building which caught fire and he had to be restrained from going back in to retrieve a jar containing about $1,000, all the money he had. It turned out that his unit wasn’t damaged, and he didn’t know that the Federal Reserve has a department of people who examine damaged money and replace it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/eating-animals-that-were-saved/794467.md?page=3)