Who is Gabriella Cilmi? To some, she is completely unknown. To others, she is an Australian music star. And to the most important, she is a meat-lover. While on tour with Leona Lewis, Cilmi is having herself a difficult time. It’s not because of the stress of touring, the rigors of performing or the constant pressure to keep here fans happy. No, her difficulties are much more important than that.

The reason is that Leona Lewis is putting on a vegan tour. That’s bad news for the whole world, but especially for Cilmi. She reportedly told Mirror.co.uk, “I’m from an Italian family, we love meat so I’ll have to smuggle in some salami or something.”

Italian family or not, I like the sound of what she has planned. There’s nothing worse than a world where a young singer can’t get a good salami into her diet. In her most popular song, Sweet About Me, she sings “There is nothing sweet about me.” Sounds like a pretty good unvegan to me.

So for loving meat, and standing out against the injustices of a vegan tour, Gabriella Cilmi, you are a true Unvegan Hero.

(via Mirror.co.uk)

Have you ever wondered what the carbon footprint of your food is? No? Me neither, but apparently some people do. Fortunately, the University of New South Wales in Australia has found that red meat is quite the carbon-efficient food, bringing one more bit of great news from the world of meat-eating.

Sadly, this bit of news doesn’t apply to all red meat, as a majority of Australian meat is grown on real pastures and and all that sort of non-factory farm stuff. Yet, it is proof that meat done right can prove those pesky vegans wrong about their crazy claims about how meat harms the environment.

And carbon efficiency is only a part of it. According to the article in Queensland Country Life, “Most people were not aware that the livestock sector was the only production industry in Australia to have reduced greenhouse emissions since 1990.” That’s pretty incredible, considering how greenhouse gases remain such a hot topic (pun intended) and many people blame livestock.

So thank you to Australia for helping to prove that meat is not only incredibly delicious on my plate, but still good for the environment.

(via Queensland Country Life)

Everyone knows about wine pairings. It is a mostly pretentious way for restaurants to sell their expensive wines in conjunction with their dishes. Even for those who avoid those pairings, any good eater or drinker knows to match red wine with red meats and white wine with white meats and fish. But enough about wine, where has beer ended up in this alcoholic conversation? Fusion Brewing in Australia has tried to answer this question with a beer made specifically for drinking with red meat.

Named Prime Beer, this beverage quickly elicits thoughts of a delicious prime beef. According to their website, “Other beer products claim to go well with meat however none were created from the start specifically for this purpose.”

Unfortunately, living outside of Australia has precluded me from tasting this beer, but I’m sure it is pretty awesome. Not only is it supposed to be good with beef, but they claim it will go well with kangaroo! A beer good enough for kangaroo is a beer good enough for me. After all, just about anything inspired by meat is sure to be amazing.

(via prweb.com)

The study compared butchers who eat a lot of red meat to average non-butcher people and the results reflect well upon red meat eaters.

Here are the best findings of the report:

Butchers report eating red meat more often than the average person, consuming 3.4 serves a week. Butchers are:

• Having more sex: Butchers report having sex 60pc more than the rest of us, averaging over 100 sexual encounters a year, while the national average is fewer than 70.
• More energetic: More than half of all butchers report they wake up feeling energetic, compared to just a quarter of the rest of us.
• Healthier: Over 50pc of butchers have had no time off sick in the past year compared to only 18pc of Australians. For those who did fall ill, they took an average of 1.1 days sick leave a year compared with 3.2 days for the rest of the population.
• Laughing more: Butchers appear to have the last laugh with three out of five saying they have a fun work environment. Fewer than one in four Aussies describe their workplace as “good fun.”

That’s enough to convince me to go out and get a steak, with a side of libido.

(via The Border Watch)

A new ad for meat has been making its way over the internet all the way from Australia. The star of the ad is none other than Sam Neill, the dinosaur-killing star of Jurassic Park. It kind of makes me wonder what dinosaur meat would taste like. Also, would it be red or white?

In the commercial, Neill touts red meats for their “omega-3s, zinc and iron.” These are all important nutrients that I would like to have in my body. As the meat is being cooked, it draws the attention of everyone in the neighborhood. I’m pretty sure the “scent” of a veggie burger wouldn’t have that effect.

For showcasing the importance of red meats and protecting the world from dangerous dinosaurs, Sam Neill, you are a true Unvegan Hero!

According to the study, “vegetarians had bones five percent less dense than meat-eaters.” It was even worse for vegans.

I don’t know about anyone else, but that five percent really comes in handy for me in my life. When I play sports I don’t have to vegetables making my bones more brittle and breakable. And also I don’t have to worry about osteoporosis so much and vegans do.

All this writing is making me hungry for some bone-strengthening meat.

(via Yahoo! News)

Thanks for sending me this, Dad!