Our effective ban on horse slaughter makes even less sense than India’s on cattle slaughter. If you’ve been to India, you know that cattle there are like stray dogs, except bigger, more numerous, and more destructive. At least they have primitive superstition as an excuse.

The answer?

“Oh, don’t worry, they’ll f@&#ing tell you. Over and over and over again.”

I guess my point here is that I actually like eating animal meat, and I’ve never actually met an old vegan. In my experience, vegans are pale, sort of green colored, and do not look all that healthy. I have relatives who ate steak and potatoes their entire lives who lived to their 90′s. And, like I said, I’ve never met a vegan that old.

I don’t know if you are one or not, but as far as eating animal fats and the like, I think I’ll stick to it and let you have your tofu.

Between that and food stamps, starvation isn’t an issue. Now, this is a good thing and discontinuing them isn’t a smart idea, but the basis for them is most certainly corporatist, corporate welfare.

Leon, the thing is, there’s a story about why white bread. “Corporatism” is a thing, but by itself it doesn’t explain *why* white bread versus wheat bread. Corporations, including when working with government, are perfectly happy to sell something that is expensive to make and charge more for it, particularly when the government can outlaw the cheap versions.

It’s like answering “the government” or “the market.” It’s a mechanism, but it’s not the story.

Moreover, the premise that there are more cases of food poisoning, etc. today is bunk. What’s happened is that mass cases have become NEWS, rather than the deaths waved away as something inevitable in society – the same way “plague” was waved away in the middle ages.

I really should read Cowen’s book, I’ve heard a lot of good things about it.

#13 Sean D Sorrentino: De gustibus non est disputandum, I guess.

Occasionally pumpernickel is pretty nice. Mostly though, non-white bread is crap. If I wanted to chew tree bark, I’d go outside and gnaw a tree.

All of life is merely “slow death”.

Yeah, and death at a young age was pretty much the norm in the old days, thanks in part to their dietary habits.

Not sure but I see a food truck downstairs. Time to go.

Neigh, I almost did die a slow death.

Yogurt. Walk with swagger, friends!