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.

Comments

Re:Go tell that to PETA

[lordmetroid]

A calorie is only the same as the next calorie if you put it a substance on fire. In the body however, substances are not lit on fire, instead different substances have different metabolic paths. Alcohole is metabolized in the liver and requires you to expand energy in order to dispose of the poison and turn it into the harmless fats that can be stored on the outside of your belly and other fatty tissues.

Re:ironically

[geekprime]

You cannot taste the difference between different kinds of meat? beef pork lamb etc...!?

Let alone the difference between a flank steak and a porterhouse?

Really? Wow!

I can tell you that there is an obvious difference in the flavor of the meat on the two sides of a porterhouse steak.
Is there a test for tastebuds? I think you may be missing something.

Re:ironically

[malakai]

WTF, have you HAD lamb? Lamb taste nothing like beef ( I won't even argue on grain vs grass fed, but blind fold me and I'll tell you the difference ).

If your saying you can grind up lamb, pork, beef and hide them inside stews with enormous amounts of spices, after perhaps you boiled the crap out of it, then yeah.. you win.. you can't tell the difference. But guess what, I can do the same thing with vegetables, fish, chicken, old leather shoes.... I can over cook and improperly pair bell peppers in a dish and you won't be able to tell what's a piece of pepper and what's a chunk of celery. All that'll remain is some sort of celouse like material.

moreover, meat always has the protein taste undertone, and dominates any food it is put into

Let's talk about what doesn't dominate a food it's put into. Fish? Dominate. Root vegetables? Dominate. Gourds? My god, try and sneak a little pumpkin into something.

Moot point really being taste are such an individual trait. Also I think environment plays a huge role in this. What you were fed as a child, what you choose to eat later in life, what meal your mom made you after your dad left home. My only suggestion to this whole argument is don't take such polarizing stand on something so non-determinable...