Ummm, eggs don’t come out of a chickens ass as far as I know.
Oh, and we get our foods from many animal sources. Humans have been milking cows and goats for a long time.
In addition, we are the only species that mixes foods together, aka recipes.
Last I heard, the human species is not inherantly vegitarian or carnivorous, we are omniverous…sorry to some of you vegitarians, I mean no respect. Bears are the best example I can come up with that eats animal products and plant products.
We use our brains to cook food via flame, mix various ingredients to make bread, cakes, pasta etc. Other life forms don’t have this capability.
If it were so strange that we drink milk, why wouldn’t it be any more strange that we cook meat and vegies? Even mix ingredients to make a creation not known to other species?
Come to think of it, what makes it so bizarre that we drink the milk from cows, but it’s not bizarre that we eat their flesh? Anything in cow milk is going to be a naturally occuring substance on a molecular level found in the animal’s blood or tissues. Other animals don’t drink the milk of different species for the sole reason that lions and wolves and polar bears don’t farm livestock.
Besides which, everyone’s heard the stories about some orphaned kitten who’s raised by a new mother dog or a piglet raised by a sheep or whatever. Presumably, this includes nursing.
“I guess one person can make a difference, although most of the time they probably shouldn’t.”
Actually, the only people who originally drank a lot of milk were anglo-americans and middle easterners, because they depended on hooved animals that gave milk. While milk may be perfectly nutritious for us people up in northern climates, there are a lot of people who just cannot digest the stuff because they were in climates such that they did not rely on milk protein. You certainly don’t need milk (which is just particles of fat suspended in water) in adulthood. But, we drink it anyways.
Chinese folks are bound to be grossed out by cheese because Asia largely does not have or use cheese! I imagine it's the same reason why I'm so grossed out by Sushi. I realize it's safe and tons of people enjoy it, but it's so *foreign* to me that it stands out as really odd.
I first noticed this Asian/cheese thing when my Filipina girlfriend and I were driving home through a Vietnamese neighborhood. We were planning to make cheeseburgers for supper, but alas I had no cheese singles at home, so I suggested stopping at one of the myriad grocery stores and purchasing some. She laughed her head off, (and hurt my feelings a little, I might add) because Asian groceries **NEVER** have cheese. Even in the middle of Nebraska. I couldn't believe this so I called all the overtly Asian stores in town, lo and behold! NO CHEESE!!
Boy are they missing out!! (tofu on a cheeseburger? get real!)
Not quite true… the Mongel (sp?) tribes of northren Asia traditionally have depended on mare’s milk as a major part of their diet. Because of their extreme isolation many still consume a diet almost entirely based on milk and milk products. (although their dependence on horses and nomadic lifestyle is the reason )
“If we knew what we were doing, it would not be called research.” - Albert Einstein
Sorry it took a while, but I wanted to research this before I reposted. Chickens only have one orifice (called a vent) from which both eggs and excreta emerge. I looked all over the web but funnily enough,there aren’t any chicken ass websites to point you to. I guess books are still good for something.
Well, I don’t eat frosted flakes. But I put either rice milk or soy milk on my dry cereal. Use it for cooking too. Which one I choose depends on which one goes better with the overall flavor. For instance on frosted shredded wheat cereals, I like vanilla soy drink better. On Life cereal I like original Rice Dream better. There are also milk-substitutes made out of almonds and oats. I don’t really like the taste though.
I use either soy drink or Rice Dream for dry cereal and cooking depending on the flavor of the meal. For instance, shredded wheat tastes better with vanilla soy and Life cereal tastes better with Rice Dream.
Well, I’m not a guy and I don’t eat frosted flakes ;), BUT I use either soy drink or Rice Dream on my dry cereal. WestSoy vanilla is better on shredded wheat while Rice Dream original is better for something like Life cereal. I don’t care for the taste of oat milk and almond milk but that’s another option for people that do.
I don’t eat Frosted Flakes either due to allergies. I can eat plain puffed rice, amaranth flakes, or plain puffed corn. I wet it with apple juice or rice milk.
My first job was in an egg farm. The job? Walk up and down a 3/4 mile aisle, and collect eggs all day long. There were 4 rows of chickens on each side.
I have seen eggs that would scramble your brains. There’s the unusually small eggs, the leviathan variety, the kind that don’t have a complete shell on them. (those were pretty freaking gross, I might add)
At least 50% of these eggs had a fecal deposit on them. It’s not that the eggs lay beneath the chicken for any amount of time, either. They would immediately roll down to an area where they would collect untill the gatherer, yours truly, would collect them.
My, how nasty a freshly laid egg is. Wet. Hot. Poop on it. Made me want to yark up omelets from years past.
After I collected the eggs, they were taken to a place where they were cleaned, then refrigerated before shipment. This refrigerator room was where I would eat my lunches to escape the sweltering Florida summer heat. At times I feared that a stack of them would fall over atop me, causing cholesterol poisoning via transdermal absorption.
In short, the only eggs I’m going to eat are the ones that come wrapped in foil that says Cadbury. I’m no longer fond of chicken either, but that’s another story.
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I guess books are still good for something.
due to allergies. I can eat plain puffed rice, amaranth flakes, or plain puffed corn. I wet it with apple juice or rice milk.