Under the Wire

Still waiting

 

August 24, 2022



I have often said everything I know about people I learned from a cow. Today, however, I am writing about something I doubt even a cow could understand.

We all have heard about “Test Tube Meat," the brain child of some who wanted a part of the “huge” profits all of us have been making calving cows and running feedlots the past hundred years or so. They, however did not like the idea of borrowing a few million dollars to buy land, machinery and cattle just to get started and then have the privilege of working 18 hours a day, forever, to collect those “big” profits. Instead they bought a few test tubes, a petri dish or two and decided to make “T-bones from trash.” They are trying to sell the idea that whatever grows in their lab dishes is much healthier than actual, carefully grown, harvested and closely inspected beef and other natural meats.

I get their marketing plan, discredit our product to distract from the questionable origin of their “fake meat.”

Some folks will be OK with the idea of going meatless because it just sounds better for them. “Red meat is bad for you and your kids” they will tell you. Here is where I get plumb confused concerning the human mind.

A television ad running lately has been appealing to dog owners not to feed harmful grain product based pet food to their animals. “Nature intended them to eat meat.” Their dog food, we are told is chuck full of beef, pork, even chicken and fish as they display beautiful cuts of all for pet lovers to admire.

I guess it is OK for them to feed their kids “test tube T-bones” but when it comes to the family dog, hey, they were designed to chew on real, pure and healthy meat, safely and humanly harvested under the watchful eyes of the various meat industries.

Have I missed something here? Feed the dogs better than the kids? Still waiting for cow behavior to explain that one to me.

 

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