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Feeling Upset? Look At Some Meat
Meshach writes "A study out of Canada claims that seeing meat actually calms a person down. From the article: 'Contrary to expectations, a McGill University researcher has discovered that seeing meat makes people significantly less aggressive. Frank Kachanoff, who studies evolution at the university’s department of psychology, had initially thought the presence of meat would provoke bloodlust, believing the response would have helped our primate ancestors hunt. But in fact, his research showed the reverse is true.'" I can see all the "Make Steak, Not War!" protest signs already.
They will show you some very calming asparagus shoots.
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(which of course are not meat, but skin-covered fat.) Much more calming.
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I wonder if it matters if you're vegetarian or not?
beef curtains always makes me feel better
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I'm sure there won't be any dirty jokes made about this at all.
Will looking at some spinach put you into a rage then? It certainly seemed that way for Popeye.
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Show her your meat!
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Of course. Why do you need to be "aggressive" when it's Thanksgiving? You've already got your kill and you are about to chow down. You and the rest of your extended family doesn't have to worry about starving for awhile. You can relax a little. This is about "being fat and happy" rather than "fight or flight". Of course "plenty" is going to be relaxing.
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...was just trying to make us all feel better? That was nice of her.
It makes perfect sense. If you can see meat then the hunt is over.
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"I am a meat popsicle."
I've got a bone to pick with that pork-barrel study, but after we chew the fat together, I won't have a beef with them anymore - unless they're too chicken, in which case something fishy may be going on.
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Let them eat steak.
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Meat is a conspiracy by the Freemasons and the Illuminati to calm down the sheeple population so that they don't protest against our reptillian overlords. See www.flouridewater911vaccinemoonlandingtruth.com to be enlightened; free your mind, bro.
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I'm gonna go and open Facebook account now.
Basically, the researcher made a completely arbitrary "evolutionary" assumption that the view of meat provoked "blood lust", despite any evidence to that. And then he stood corrected after wasting funds on that largely irrelevant issue. Blood lust didn't help our ancestors hunt, hunger did. It would seem way more logical to most people - except to that researcher, obviously - that the view of meat would calm them, since it meant "dinner's (almost?) ready".
The view of meat could provoke anger with some people like veggie activists, but this has nothing to do with our ancestors hunting for food, IMO.
Is this why I don't get frustrated playing Super Meat Boy?
By the time you turn an animal into meat, you don't need to fight or run any more as long as there isn't to much competition within your group.
Omigod. You're serious then. They're made out of meat.
if I show people my meat, they will get upset. Well, some of them...
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Once you can see MEAT, the hunt is over. Time to calm down and eat. Makes sense to me. We're not jackals, who fight for carrion; or lions who compete for who gets to eat the kill. We're a cooperative species, so once the hunt is done and the meat is out, time to stop producing adrenaline from the hunt and get to the business of sharing the meat out to the group.
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Hitler was a vegetarian.
If the French had gone to the Rhineland with slabs of meat, WW2 could have been averted.
You don't see the raw meat until after you've caught and killed the animal and are ready to eat. Bloodlust is not appropriate at that point. He needs to redo the experiment with images of prey animals running away.
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The Obama Administration announced today that the next Palestine-Israel peace talks will be held in Cobber's Butcher Shop, Dayton, Ohio! "We welcome the opportunity of the Israelis and Palestianians to gaze on calming meat and embrace a new era of cooperation," the President said Wednesday.
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If our primitive ancestors were seeing meat, it meant hunting was done, and they didn't have to worry about getting trampled by a wooly mammoth for a few days. Talk about your stress relief...
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Fraud? That is a nonsense article that seems to me to be a public relations commercial for the meat industry.
Finally, all those stale motivational posters will be replaced by deli shots.
Table-ized A.I.
"Bacon is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy."
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I knew those whirled peas advocates had it all wrong.
Seriously, though, even just visualizing a good steak a minute ago calmed me down. I'm thinking this might actually be a tactic known as "distraction through hunger". It works for angry dogs too. Maybe the brain can only handle one primal urge at once.
Certainly, seeing meat "could have" caused bloodlust, and certainly that's the easier hypothesis with which to start testing, so I'd have done the same thing. But it certainly makes more sense that it'd be calming.
When seeing a wild turkey, bloodlust would help the hunter. After killing it, and stripping it, now staring at the meat, the hunting is done, the bloodlust isn't required. What's more, we need to turn into digestive mode -- which in humans is a very energy-intensive task.
Not to mention, there are only 3.5 requirements for human nourishment. Meat covers one of them. That's quite satisfying.
I'm a vegetarian, you insensitive clods.
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It makes you feel relevant because you have a steak in your future.
vegetables are what is used to actually give taste to REAL dishes, even for dishes made with meat. because, meat, always tastes like, well, meat. you have to have vegetables to make something different out of it.
think : its no different than eating potatoes all the time. same and same. but, we are conditioned by the society to think that we are actually eating well, because, well, we are eating meat. this is reminiscent of the earlier centuries in which meat was hard to find, and therefore considered a richness in the table. its not like that anymore.
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My wife & I have often found shopping for meat can be... well... arousing... Maybe we're not just freaks after all!
"Feeling upset? Look at some meat!"
I used that exact line on my wife last night.
*zzzziiippppp*
thats what i was trying to say.
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Fleeing meat is much more appropriate
Surprised this isn't modded higher...but then again you put the word evolutionary in quotes, so the typical slashdot defense mechanism in people prevented any positive modding.
The article is very short and only gives the sample size, which in my opinion is too small (82). I'm curious to see the raw data and how "persuasive" it was in determining this conclusion. Additionally, other reasonings could be used. I wonder if some of the men used in the study simply enjoy barbequing and they attribute images meat to this.
Am I the only one that saw "McGill University" and thought it said McGrill?
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That's why I always have meat wallpaper on my computer. Unfortunately I tend to eat often.
Great! I can just imagine a new PsyOps tactic in Afghanistan.
Spraying the aroma of slowly simmering meat all over a suspected Al Queda camp. Cover a whole mountainside or carpet (bomb) an entire valley with the sweet smell of roasting meat.
Instead of “Daisy Cutter” munitions, spread dissension among the opposing side by starving them out (or requiring them to get much better mobile kitchens to run their recruiting.)
That’ll drive the enemy mad trying to figure out where the ovens are.
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... unless your a militant vegetarian. In which case it's time to call out the riot police.
Why in the hell would seeing meat prompt bloodlust...as a response to help us hunt? A seriously flawed form logic formed the initial hypothesis. Meat is the result of hunting. First hypothesis should have been that it would have a relaxing effect.
I'm a cave-man. I've been working my butt off all day to put food on the table while making sure I don't end up as food on the table. At the end of my long, arduous day, I unwind while watching my defeated opponent slowly roast over a hypnotic dance of flames. Finally, the meat is done. I can relax and enjoy a good meal.
Sorry, I must be "evolved". This meat does nothing for me.
Calming Images:
A pile of classic arcade game cartridges.
Earth as seen from the mother ship.
Our place in the known universe.
This was a study done on 82 Canadian men; apologies if I don't find the findings immediately appropriate. Maybe women are more likely to find meat agitating? Moreover, it's a really weird study. The conclusion that meat is calming comes from not punishing someone for sorting a meat picture - that's just too far removed from reality.
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Looking at Lady Gaga at the MTV Awards in her butcher shop couture, made me a lot of things... but calm and sedate weren't among them. She should have made her purse out of a barf bag.
I worked in a slaughter house then as a butcher for many years, and it had effects on me I see live stock and I tell how how delicious they're by just looking at it. My friends often come to me to pick a goat or a calf for their quinceñeras because I can pick right. Sometimes I drool but I don't think is a bad thing. When I see cows grazing is when it happens the most.
If you have no tastebuds. Each type of meat has a distinct taste, definitely different from other types of meat. There is a massive difference between say Lamb and Bison, Moose and Rabbit, Venison and Chicken, Turkey and Beef. If you can't taste any difference between them, then either you are completely without with the required tastebuds to make the distinction, or you are letting a moral stand against being a carnivore cloud your judgment. You may choose to be a vegetarian, but its not natural to our species, who are omnivores by design. Personally, the first solid food I ate was moose meat and I have never looked back.
I will grant you that spices and sauces and things like that can dramatically alter the base taste of the meat, but claiming that all meat tastes the same is pure speciousness/bullshit.
Now, as to veggies, I recognize that eating them is part of a balanced diet, but I can't think of a single one that I would prefer to eat over meat, they are always secondary aspects of any meal to me. Not that I eat a lot of meat, its just that for me a meal generally consists of "Meat, plus some other stuff" in the back of my mind.
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"had initially thought the presence of meat would provoke bloodlust, believing the response would have helped our primate ancestors hunt."
That makes no sense.
Why would it be a good thing for are primitive ancestors to want to hunt when they already have caught and butchered meat lying around?
So it is just the opposite, because it would help out ancestors out to get agitated and go hunt when the food runs out.
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Retards are vegetables: they don't work or move.
Plant leaves are herbs.
Plant flesh are meat.
Plant roots are that actual vegetable matter.
Plant seeds covered by sugar is the fruit to entice animals to disperse the plant with a reward.
Stems that dip into the soil, or roots that grow further than fat-storage, is propogation by Layering.
Even the Holy Bible says this to some degree.
Just because it's immobile doesn't mean it's a vegetable; it migrates too.
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I can't speak for anyone else, but I know if -I'm- looking at a nice juicy steak, I'm pretty calm and content. :3
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The way I see it, it seems simple. The hunt is over, the meat is gathered and prepared. Now it the time for calm. No need for bloodlust.
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Sheep are valuable for wool, and are rarely killed for meat(lamb) when goats are available.
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The first solid you ever ate was Moose? Are you... are you Chuck Norris?
Why did he think that hunters need their blood-lust boost AFTER the prey is killed? You dont see the meat BEFORE the hunt mister "scientist"! You see animal before the hunt. The meat becomes visibla AFTER the hunt. Should we laugh or cry?
its not about 'differentiating'. i can differentiate in between them. the thing is THERE IS NOT MUCH TO DIFFERENTIATE. only 4 types of taste. compared to the taste difference in between countless vegetables and fruit ingredients, meat comes up pathetic in variety array.
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Vegetarians are lame anyhow, Eat meat or it will eat you. Vegan = wuss...
How about you just stop pretending you know anything about meat and we'll go on not caring what you do or don't eat?
Well, we could start by admitting you know nothing about me. I'm not a vegetarian, and I don't see anyone else this far down the thread who says that they are either. Why don't you look at some meat and calm down. :P
I eat meat in some form in pretty much every meal, and have my whole life, though the meat selection is largely beef, some chicken and a little pork from time to time. However I live in a small town, on the West Coast, and I'm not certain what a butcher's shop even looks like. I eat fast food, take-away, frozen food, and I have yet to even see "lamb" on a menu anywhere. I imagine it's a fairly unusual thing to eat in my region. Might just be more popular in the mid-west.
By "our point", I also don't mean "vegetarians", I mean people who don't feel we need to see a doctor just for panning the differences of timbre and undertone between farm animals. If you enjoy the tableau, more power to you, just lose the snobbery.
People willing to trade their freedom of expression for temporary entertainment deserve neither and will lose both.