Comments on: Meat Your Menu http://civileats.com/2010/03/01/meat-your-menu/ Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:08:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Food Buzz: Rockin’ the Twitter Feed « Cold Cereal & Toast http://civileats.com/2010/03/01/meat-your-menu/comment-page-1/#comment-5745 Food Buzz: Rockin’ the Twitter Feed « Cold Cereal & Toast Fri, 05 Mar 2010 00:15:22 +0000 http://civileats.com/?p=6769#comment-5745 [...] creates the same amount of endorphins as a 4-mile run for me.  The latest comes from a Civil Eats article about the World Society for the Protection of Animal’s (WSPA) restaurant and grocery store [...] [...] creates the same amount of endorphins as a 4-mile run for me.  The latest comes from a Civil Eats article about the World Society for the Protection of Animal’s (WSPA) restaurant and grocery store [...]

]]> By: Sharon McEachern http://civileats.com/2010/03/01/meat-your-menu/comment-page-1/#comment-5721 Sharon McEachern Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:41:50 +0000 http://civileats.com/?p=6769#comment-5721 I certainly hope that the World Society for the Protection of Animals develops such databases in Europe. I guess the restaurants are judged on whether their meat suppliers treat animals humanely while they fatten them up for slaughter and then on how they actually kill them -- not on whether the restaurants are putting them on the menu. How about establishments which cook lobsters by boiling them alive? So if a restaurant serves dog or cat meat, that's okay? Last week in Italy the national public television network suspended indefinitely 'Beppe' Bigazzi because he advocated eating cat. The Italian chef Bigazzi, a gastronome who has been on public TV daily for a decade, praised the taste of cat stew (aka casserole-of-cat) while on air. It is illegal to kill domesticated animals in Italy. He expounded on cat as "a delicacy," and "a succulent dish," which "many a time I've eaten its white meat" and appalled viewers who jammed the network's switchboard. Oh yes, he claimed cat in a thick sauce is "better than chicken, rabbit or pigeon." Ethic Soup has several good posts on this at: http://www.ethicsoup.com/2010/02/hisssss-italians-outraged-tv-network-fires-chef-beppe-bigazzi-over-cat-meat-stew.html AND http://www.ethicsoup.com/2010/02/ethic-soups-soup-du-jour-head-of-bigazzi.html I certainly hope that the World Society for the Protection of Animals develops such databases in Europe. I guess the restaurants are judged on whether their meat suppliers treat animals humanely while they fatten them up for slaughter and then on how they actually kill them — not on whether the restaurants are putting them on the menu. How about establishments which cook lobsters by boiling them alive?

So if a restaurant serves dog or cat meat, that’s okay? Last week in Italy the national public television network suspended indefinitely ‘Beppe’ Bigazzi because he advocated eating cat. The Italian chef Bigazzi, a gastronome who has been on public TV daily for a decade, praised the taste of cat stew (aka casserole-of-cat) while on air. It is illegal to kill domesticated animals in Italy. He expounded on cat as “a delicacy,” and “a succulent dish,” which “many a time I’ve eaten its white meat” and appalled viewers who jammed the network’s switchboard. Oh yes, he claimed cat in a thick sauce is “better than chicken, rabbit or pigeon.” Ethic Soup has several good posts on this at:

http://www.ethicsoup.com/2010/02/hisssss-italians-outraged-tv-network-fires-chef-beppe-bigazzi-over-cat-meat-stew.html

AND

http://www.ethicsoup.com/2010/02/ethic-soups-soup-du-jour-head-of-bigazzi.html

]]> By: Patricia http://civileats.com/2010/03/01/meat-your-menu/comment-page-1/#comment-5711 Patricia Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:50:28 +0000 http://civileats.com/?p=6769#comment-5711 While I applaud the WSPA for doing this, they are hardly the first. We have maintained a Seattle-focused list for the past EIGHT months and are just a week away from launching our Bay Area list. That said, I'm glad that more and more organizations are doing this sort of thing. Our Seattle based list is <a href="http://www.cooklocal.com/?page_id=1484" rel="nofollow">here</a>. While I applaud the WSPA for doing this, they are hardly the first. We have maintained a Seattle-focused list for the past EIGHT months and are just a week away from launching our Bay Area list.

That said, I’m glad that more and more organizations are doing this sort of thing.

Our Seattle based list is here.

]]> By: t http://civileats.com/2010/03/01/meat-your-menu/comment-page-1/#comment-5709 t Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:12:33 +0000 http://civileats.com/?p=6769#comment-5709 please explain to me how it is humane to slaughter an animal in the prime of its life. humane is putting an animal down from injury or illness when it is in pain and there is no hope for recovery. please explain to me how it is humane to slaughter an animal in the prime of its life. humane is putting an animal down from injury or illness when it is in pain and there is no hope for recovery.

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