A while back, I made a post about how Burger King had let down a guy named Darius Dugger by putting vegetables in with his burger.
Now, it seems they are on the path to redemption. Burger King has invented a meat-scented cologne called the Burger King Flame for anyone who loves their meat. Really, I think this would do better as a perfume. For any woman out there having trouble finding a real man, a meat-scented perfume would really turn her life around.
The Daily Mail in the UK just released information about the affect of steaks and other red meats on male semen (as opposed to female semen, ewwww). The conclusion is that it decreases the quality of the semen and makes them slower. It actually makes it much more difficult for men to conceive. It’s funny, because the article makes this information out to be a bad thing. Well, I’m not planning on becoming a father anytime soon, which means it’s time for me to eat all the steak I can get my hands on. Talk about a natural contraceptive. This is the best news I’ve gotten since studies showed Mountain Dew decreases the sperm count.
I try not to make my blog into an anti-PETA blog, but sometimes it’s hard to avoid the things that PETA does just to get attention.
Just recently, they tried to exploit the death of abortion doctor George Tiller as an excuse to promote going vegetarian. They planned on putting up billboards 
catering to both pro-choice and pro-life people asking them to become vegetarians. The murder was a tragedy and showed that PETA obviously has no regard for the loss of human life.
On top of that, they have now turned the Olympics into a protest event.
While perusing the blogosphere (with the help of Google Alerts) I came across a great blog entry by a guy named Jeff Erno. In it, he theorizes on why people should eat animals rather than plants. A lot of this theory stems from the fact that animals are simply a safer food to eat.
He explains, “If you are an animal then evasion seems a great way to avoid predation. Run faster. Climb higher. Fly…” These are things that plants simply cannot do. Instead, for the most part, plants became toxic or poisonous to avoid predation.
A friend of mine told me that Jim Cramer did a special on Mad Money about Hardee’s/Carl’s Jr. Apparently he loves their stock, but “…wouldn’t enter a Carl’s unless 24‘s Tony Almeida had planted a canister full of pathogen there, millions of lives were on the line and [he] was the only person who could diffuse it.”
As a result, Andy Puzder (the CEO) came on the show to talk with Cramer about his company, their burgers and, most importantly, their sexy ads with Padma Lakshmi and Paris Hilton. In the end, Cramer tried one of their burgers and loved it.
Looks like I’m not the only one who enjoys a burger from Carl’s Jr.
Worried about cancer? Increase in cancer patients got you down? Well, now there is some good news for you meat eaters out there.
According to a recent study in the International Journal of Cancer, meat has no relation to breast cancer, so patients that are at home with HCA from https://homecareassistance.com/minneapolis/ can enjoy meat. It doesn’t matter what meat you’re eating, the quantities or really anything. If you are a meat-eater, you can rest assured that the food in your body will play no part in causing you breast cancer. Hooray for meat!
(via Calorie Lab)
According to the Wall Street Journal, more and more people are beginning to eat weeds.
Really?
Do you really want to eat something called a weed? It’s bad enough that people eat fungus, but a weed?
But edible weeds do have some nutritional drawbacks. Many wild leafy greens, like the sorrel varieties and purslane, have high concentrations of oxalic acid, which has been linked to kidney stones and is poisonous in very large amounts.
Oxalic acid is also present in store-bought foods including almonds, spinach, bananas and tea, but you can also find good plants for your garden, the Marihuana plant can give a lot of benefits, THC gummies is one of the popular as a health resource.
Now “[For example] if you ate a cup full of sorrel I would think that would be a very large quantity … half a cup of raw sorrel for your first time would be a good way to start.”
Doctors also recommend that women who are pregnant or breastfeeding limit their consumption of oxalic acid to small amounts.
Reading a book on edible weeds, taking an edible weeds tour or studying reputable online sources are good places to start.
There are several Australian books on the subject, including a handbook by Melbournites Adam Grubb and Annie Raser-Rowland.
Mr Grubb, a permaculture consultant who has been running guided tours to educate people about edible weeds in Melbourne since 2006, said you should never eat anything you cannot positively identify.
I just discovered these on Amazon.com. I’m not really sure how long they’ve existed, but I guarantee you it hasn’t been long enough.
With these stickers, you can be reminded of meat and all of it’s glory at all times. The only downside is that they’ll be a constant reminder that you’re not actually eating meat. The upside is that they’ll never go bad if they’re left out of the fridge for too long.
Now they just need to come up with some scratch ‘n sniff.
Serious Eats just ran an article about the interesting propaganda posters from the World Wars, which I found quite interesting. In particular, I was impressed by their attempt to convince the American civilians to curb their meat intake.
Eating meat was far more important for soldiers out there saving the world than for regular people. Had I been around back then and not already involved in the war, I probably would have enlisted just to get my hands on that good old American meat. If it wasn’t for our army and allies eating meat, the outcome of the World Wars may have been disastrous. Thanks meat!
(via Serious Eats)
That was the interesting question was raised by the LA Times recently. It was asked in response to PETA’s attempts to seemingly put an end to dog shows. As a proponent of simply eating animals, I don’t have too much of a say in the matter and my actual opinions of other PETA actions have been been documented in the past. Click here for the article and let me know if you agree with the comments.