No more Fois Gras served in WDW restaurants..

[rani8600]

There is something in meat that makes people grow taller. All those countries where they eat little to no meat...the people are short.

If you go to Chinese cities now, you can see the difference all around. All the older people are short. The younger a group, the taller they are. As the country began making money, they could afford meat. It is really fascinating to see the impact it had all around, just looking at people. In about one more generation, they'll be as tall as Americans.

You can eliminate meat and be totally healthy, no doubt about it. But if a population wants their children to grow tall and strong, they must include meat in the diet.

this us about amount of calories not meat eating. I would recommend a book called The China Study this is the results of a 30 year study on the people of china. the scientist have explored all of the areas of nutrition and activity to get to some real results. because the country is mostly racially homogenous they were even about to account for that. it is really interesting and the scientist who started the study was originally working how to increase animal protein into the diets of poor countries. He was shocked by the results that higher levels of animal protein did not solve the problems he thought it would and in fact only introduced new ones

 

[jakeman]

If animals didn't want us to eat them, they wouldn't be so tasty.

 

[Tomi-Rocket]

Good.

 

[bubbles1812]

I love that show! And Ron and his love of all things meat!

Also...omnivore and proud of it!

 

[Phonedave]

These animals managed to live very well in the wild before mankind decided to "domesticate" them. A good example is the turkey. This animal has lived in the wild for thousands of years and still does. I see wild turkeys on my way home from work (I live in new jersey, not the country). The same can be said for the wild boar, also known as a pig.

Wild Turkey is far removed from domesticated turkey. A domestic turkey would not do too well in the wild. They also have quite different tastes and textures - having eaten both farm raised turked and turkey that 24 hours prior were running around the woods of New Jersey.


-dave

 

[Phonedave]

Liver is really good.
Tripe - only if it's in some Pho

Eh, you can keep the liver.

Tripe with tomatoes (and carrots, it sweetens it)

Beef heat is good, as is tongue.

Trotters - not really an organ, but a pain to eat.

Cheeks - excellent. Roasted filsh heads - awesome to pick the meat off of.

And as for the "organ" that was originally alluded to, yeah I have eaten that as well - Soup #5 at a philippino hole in the wall restruant in Atlantic City while watching people with thick speaking accents do spot on renditions of Neil Diamond Karioke.

-dave

 

[hellowonderland]

I am being good but you make it so difficult.

LOL... OMG, usually I catch all the "That's what she said's". Ooops.

 

[hellowonderland]

If you want to multi-quote...you can start to reply to the thread and just hit reply on each post you'd like quoted in your post. It will autopopulate in the box below started for your reply. You can also launch that box by hitting reply on the first post you want to quote and then reply again on the next post you wish to quote- and so on. So I hit reply on Uncle Lupe's post first and then hit reply on hellowonderland's post. Hope this helps.

Thanks!!!!

I wanted to learn that before I did a Trip Report, so it's really helpful.

 

[Uncle Lupe]

LOL... OMG, usually I catch all the "That's what she said's". Ooops.

That's awesome. We discreetly have a lot of fun with that at work. I think that my brain hit 16 and just said, "I'm done. Enough maturity"

 

[rani8600]

I don't have any proof such as medical journals to back up my vitamin deficiency claim but all I know is both of the people I know well who are vegetarians were told if they wanted to have a healthy pregnancy they would have to eat meat or subliment with a ton of vitamins. Both of them choose to eat fish and poultry for the sake of the baby. One of them wasn't 100% vegetarian all the time but the other was so it was harder for her. She actually had a hard time getting pregnant when she was on a vegetarian diet because no matter what she ate or how many nutritiousness she worked with she just wasn't getting the right balance of things in her body. Maybe this is just these two women as I'm sure there are probably loads of women who have children while they are living a vegan or vegetarian life but the two woman in my life who did this before children choose not to take hoards of synthetic vitamins and just to eat all organice and as humane as possible fish and poultry. Also the one male friend I have who is vegetarian was told by his doctor that due to his previous medical issues it was not a smart choice but then when he started being vegetarian they had to prescribe him all kinds of shots of vitamins to make sure his issues didn't come back.

non vegetarians also have to supplement. All mothers to be are recommeded pre-natal vitamins. Veggie ones are just balance a little differently with more of some and less (yes less) of others. Veggie ones are all from plant based sources as well.

 

[flavious27]

This might be old news, but V&A called me today to find out my parties preferences. When I informed them that none of us wanted Fois Gras (because its a hideous & Cruel practice), they informed me that its now longer served on WDW property!

Good for you Disney, good for you!

Which means that none of the resorts in the US serve it. The way that most foie gras is produced is as bad as how ortolan is prepared.

 

[Weather_Lady]

Which means that none of the resorts in the US serve it. The way that most foie gras is produced is as bad as how ortolan is prepared.

Having no idea what an ortolan is, I googled it. All I can say is, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Ortolan

Seriously though (having also had the poor bird which I'm sure is what you were REALLY referring to brought up in my search results), that's hideous.

 

[flavious27]

Having no idea what an ortolan is, I googled it. All I can say is, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Ortolan

Seriously though (having also had the poor bird which I'm sure is what you were REALLY referring to brought up in my search results), that's hideous.

The radio show This American Life talked about it, and yeah that is the bird you saw.

 

[Phonedave]

Which means that none of the resorts in the US serve it. The way that most foie gras is produced is as bad as how ortolan is prepared.

Ortolan is an endangered protected species - duck is not.

The whole idea of drowing it in a snifter of brandy is up for debate - I honestly think that would be a wast of good brandy. There is a lot of easier ways to dispatch a bird.

After reading Anthoy Bourdain's description of eating Ortolan in "Medium Raw" it has been something I would like to try. However, unless it was somehow sourced from sustainable means, I will pass on it. I am the same way about fish. I have no problem putting a fish in my stomach, but while I love grouper for example, I rarely eat it because of the overfishing. The only time I have eaten green sea turtle (another endangered species) is on the Cayman's where they raise them - half get released to the wild, and half are used for food. That is something I can accept. If there was an ortolan farm somewhere, I would be trying them.

-dave