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« Reply #60 on: May 08, 2008, 07:24 » |
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The father of Arthur Conan Doyle got it all right, while staying at the asylum. Watch his drawing of a somewhat fiendish squirrel. (scroll down - accompanying text in German.) No,,, that guy's not sick at all. It's like something out of Struwwelpeter. |
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Suzanne
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« Reply #61 on: May 11, 2008, 16:41 » |
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Even as a vegetarian, I couldn't agree more... The ultimate ethical meal: a grey squirrelIt tastes sweet, like a cross between lamb and duck. And it's selling as fast as butchers can get it It's low in fat, low in food miles and completely free range. In fact, some claim that Sciurus carolinensis - the grey squirrel - is about as ethical a dish as it is possible to serve on a dinner plate.
The grey squirrel, the American cousin of Britain's endangered red variety, is flying off the shelves faster than hunters can shoot them, with game butchers struggling to keep up with demand. 'We put it on the shelf and it sells. It can be a dozen squirrels a day - and they all go,' said David Simpson, the director of Kingsley Village shopping centre in Fraddon, Cornwall, whose game counter began selling grey squirrel meat two months ago. Read on |
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Suzanne
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« Reply #63 on: Jun 14, 2008, 22:44 » |
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Can it get any more apocalyptic than this?!  Apparently, it can:  Mario Ybarra Jr.'s Black Squirrel Society(on show at Lehmann Maupin, New York, June 24 - Aug 8, 2008) |
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Suzanne
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« Reply #64 on: Jul 17, 2008, 15:40 » |
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Suzanne
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« Reply #66 on: Aug 14, 2008, 13:25 » |
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Hmm.. I'm not sure whether I can really endorse the consumption of so-called "vermins" like rats and squirrels (or methane factories like kangaroos) from my vegan perspective. Particularly when you consider that the biggest pest on this planet is beyond doubt the human race with its destructive hunger for endless expansion and breeding. Maybe the time has come to remove the taboos from cannibalism - the really "ethical" lifestyle.  |
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strumpetwindsock
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« Reply #67 on: Aug 14, 2008, 19:33 » |
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"Soylent green is people! Soylent green is people!"
I remember a few years back reading about a Japanese ersatz bacon made from high-nutrient sewage (human shit, for the laypeople). It was in a magazine; if I could find an on-line link I would post it.
A German friend of mine actually cooked a squirrel over an open fire and ate it the first time she came over here just to have what she thought was a Canadian experience. Normally you'd get locked up for that, though I must confess I have thought of wringing the neck of one of the overfed Canada Geese wandering around town and throwing it in a pot.
I do take your point to a degree Suzanne - I agree that factory farming is the devil's work - the last thing we need is to grow even more hectares of soy to turn cattle into burgers. But small scale traditional farming is another thing; there are some places where you gotta eat meat, and in my perfect world you'd be able to keep chickens or a rabbit hutch in your back yard in any city. A lawnmower that you can turn into soup at the end of the season - what could be better?
Although given the vernacular term for human meat - long pig - perhaps you have a point; the undertaker lobby might have a thing or two to say about it, though.
And I've never tried squirrel, but I can't imagine a grain and nut-fed rodent would be too bad. After all guinea pig got its english name from the food source it was replacing, rabbits are tasty, and I have tried stuffed beaver and it is not bad either (and you can hold the obvious joke).
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Suzanne
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« Reply #68 on: Aug 24, 2008, 20:30 » |
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Here's an amazing story (in German only.. sorry..) about a kamikaze, TV-hating squirrel that managed to switch off the national Swiss channel SF during the Olympic closing ceremony. Hehehe.
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Suzanne
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« Reply #69 on: Aug 27, 2008, 23:44 » |
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Here's an amazing story (in German only.. sorry..) about a kamikaze, TV-hating squirrel that managed to switch off the national Swiss channel SF during the Olympic closing ceremony. Hehehe. ... and now in English! (thanks to Klav) |
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Suzanne
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« Reply #70 on: Sep 12, 2008, 20:18 » |
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This woman is utterly creepy (in the ever-smiling Sarah Palin way and I'm sure she's an NRA member as well..) as she shoots a squirrel with her son and turns it into a yummy sandwich for him. Awww.. motherly love US style!  |
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naturalia
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« Reply #72 on: Sep 18, 2008, 21:20 » |
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Awww.. motherly love US style! My countrywomen deeply scare me. Yes, I see the Palin resemblance...maybe she should re-make this video to help further establish her "credentials"??? |
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« Reply #73 on: Sep 23, 2008, 09:08 » |
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« Reply #74 on: Sep 23, 2008, 23:49 » |
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 ...but I've gotta say, it's sooooo unfair to the poor little piggies to compare them with such a !?%^$$##@%&^*%!?!! wretch.  |
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