a_lonely_girl MnGirl Thats me! hehe, but the sad thing is, i'm really nice and cute (as told by numurus guys) but i'm just not good with meeting people and dating and all that stuff, because i'm kinda shy and not really good at talking to people at first so they all think i'm werid and stuff. So if you can understand my problem... i live in MN and i'm single, blah, and hmmm i'm artistic, and stuff! talk to me if ya want! :) :) :) 030816 ... tennis star of the 70s write something, express an opinion. i know this place frequently looks like a message board, but usually when it does you can rest assured that there's a good chance it may take a turn toward the mean and cranky side of things when it does that said, though there are no "rules" here other than the unwritten ones that most seem to follow out of form, much of what gets done here is word-play in one form or another, a memory, a dream, a random thought, an attempt to confuse the hell out of people with strange and bizarre ramblings (guilty here, just click on my name and see what i mean when you click the links to the right of it) i'm just happy the lights are back on again, personally. (was born in '85) 030816 ... MnGirl express an opinion? ok, hmmm, i think that animals shouldn't be killed for meat! its awful! 030816 ... oldephebe okay I'll bite on this topic that's sure to brew a roiling kettle of contention I umm pretty ambivalent, about it - I probably couldn't last 30 seconds in a charnel house, but I enjoy ripping ravenously into a well done chunk of meat - mmm mm good. Also there's the whole thing about man utilizing the resouces he's been given to perpetuat and propogate - we got the galvanized temporal lobes and animals got instinct and superior senses and all that and I get the whole not wanting to eat an animal because it was killed by a violent act sure - but ah I likes my steak, and lamb and chicken - I love tearing the meat off the bone - there's some atavistic resonance or echo that unfolds in the old limbic system 030816 ... screwing for virginity i will eat any animal, as long as it didnt have a name. 030816 ... IKC 56-80 my only gripe with meat now is overconsumption and the environmental toll wrought by the meat industry, industrialized cattle raising is responsible for a big chunk of the ecological problems of the last century i'm not vegan or vegetarian and i don't subscribe to the cruelty aspect of the slaughter process (a bullet to the head is a lot quicker and neater than most of us will get when our lives end) but i of have the gripe that a lot of the necessary protein we could be eating ourselves is being fed inefficiently to those big, stupid, ever-so-yummy cows who aren't even supposed to be consuming that much protein in the first place (and making cattle feed out of cattle waste and cattle fragments -esp. spinal tissue- is how we got mad cow disease, just ask the cannibals in the south pacific who were plagued with a similar encephelopathy) i know it's bad for me, but i do enjoy it so. excuse me, i just got done cleaning the fridge earlier today and bought some groceries a little while ago...i need to slap together a nice cheeseburger though, truth be told, i will never eat a hot-dog again as long as i live 030816 ... misstree will rape kill pillage burn and eat babie i agree with ikc, the environmental toll is way nasty. i try to limit my beef consumption both because of that and because it's bad for me, but, well, nothing will ever replace the feeling of rending nearly raw flesh. i don't otherwise discriminate in my food sources; we have a cat named EAFS, emergency alternative food source (though i lobby for emergency to become exotic), and if offered the opportunity would gladly consume human flesh. i still eat hot dogs, after i learned the amount of fecal matter chickens consume i wouldn't eat chicken for about a year and a half... eventually got over it, and now as long as it's dead it's food. 030817 ... shoccolo have to agree with the carnivores here... meat is essention for the production of heme iron, which enables my red blood cells to carry oxygen, so... sorry cows, you lose. i have trouble with the idea of eating horses though. if it's not identifiable meat, please, don't tell me what it is, and just let me enjoy my supper. nothing would be better right now than a bloody-rare base-ball eye of the round with a yorkshire pud & a potato. OH GOD, that's love. 030817 ... MnGirl well, you know, everyone has opinions! :) 030817 ... oldephebe I spent a large part of my childhood in rural PA - where they would shove a rifle into your hands as soon as you turned twelve - any way if any of the neighboors had a good day, killed a 9 point buck why he'd share his kill with his neighboors - venison is the worst meat I've ever tasted - even young or tender venison tasted randy, like what I envision squirel meat must taste like - has anyone ever eaten venison, and if you have - what do you think of it - is there an after taste? does not like venison 030817 ... misstree when i've had it it's had a little bit of an aftertaste, more musky than anything else, and it was very very melty and had, i dunno, a full taste. tastes like bambi, so says the puppycrusher. 030817 ... MnGirl i think that the reason humans like meat so much is not only the taste, but because of the feeling of power, the fact that they think they are at the top. and to me that is a sorry excuse to take away life, its like killing your mother, brother, father or sister. its sick, and i choose to not perticipate. 030817 ... screwing fro virginity no, no, its definatly the taste. "vegitables are not food, vgetitables are mearly food for food" 030817 what's it to you? who go blather from