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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?
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.
missed first roast!
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Show her your meat!
Keep a copy of TFA for when the cops show up.
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
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.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
and a teetotaler. Do you need more proof? :)
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
...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'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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WTF IS THIS SHI.....oh look at the pretty picture.....mmmm.......BBQ......what was I on about.....ah yes......why do I have to hate M$ so much? And apple closed source is actually good for the users....
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.
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.
"I will trust Google to 'do no evil' until the founders no longer run it." Hello Alphabet.
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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It makes you feel relevant because you have a steak in your future.
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.
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.
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...
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I know plenty of people who claim this and it's for the same two or three reasons every time.
1: They smoke, and have done so for so long that they cannot taste much of anything.
2: They are the people who drown everything in salt, pepper or some other spice so that the natural flavor or the dish gets overwhelmed no matter what they are eating
3: Bad cooking, they grew up with a bad cook and never learned how to do it on their own so now they just ignore the flavor of what they eat without thinking about it.
I was raised a vegetarian and I was the last holdout when we all decided to actually start eating meat. I see where you are coming from.
But you are absolutely, completely wrong. Meat is an expansive world full of an incredible range of complex flavors.
but if you label hot brown liquid "coffee" and make the room smell like coffee, people will generally think it is coffee?
Works in our office. They also have carpet cleaner powder in canisters and label it 'creamer'. Only the best for our employees!
Miller Lite tastes like water that's somehow managed to rot.