PETA releases statement opposing Pokemon

[Herpestidae]

People have eaten Pokemon. There's a whole ritual with the bones once you're done so you can honor them properly.

Though, as the majority of Pokemon have been shown to understand English, I'd probably go vegetarian myself because I'd see it as halfway to cannibalism. There are berry trees all around, and at worst, I'm asking a Tropius or something for some fruit, and it can choose whether or not to give them to me.

No, wait... fruit are basically Plant eggs, aren't they?

And while I'm at it, I wonder if people eat Cherrims? That would be terrifying, actually.

[Coidzor]

Originally Posted by The Glyphstone

Quite possible, they also use them as weapons it seems.

That's why they're delicious with leeks. They're always close at hand and whoever kills a farfetch'd to eat it appreciates the poetic justice of simmering the buggers with their own weapons that they presumably bruised them up with.

[Frozen_Feet]

Originally Posted by Lord_Gareth

They don't just use them as weapons - they use them as swords, and they hack down trees with them.

As far as I'm concerned, Farfetch'd is actually a god.

Obviously, their leek swordsmanship is a survival mechanism - once upon a time, a Farfetch'd decided it didn't want to get eaten with leek, so it grabbed the leek and beat the hunter. It became the primogenitor of the modern strain of the species. Several thousand generations later, it's become an instinctive to the species, so whenever they see a leek, they enter a berserker fury and beat everything down with it.

[The Glyphstone]

Originally Posted by Coidzor

That's why they're delicious with leeks. They're always close at hand and whoever kills a farfetch'd to eat it appreciates the poetic justice of simmering the buggers with their own weapons that they presumably bruised them up with.

Unless it's the other way round - the Farfetch'd know their culinary complement, and deliberately carry it as a boast of bravado - they're so confident in their martial ability that if they lose, they'll give you the perfect side dish to eat them with.

[Coidzor]

Originally Posted by The Glyphstone

Unless it's the other way round - the Farfetch'd know their culinary complement, and deliberately carry it as a boast of bravado - they're so confident in their martial ability that if they lose, they'll give you the perfect side dish to eat them with.

Well, no, you'd have to have more than one leek to have a proper side dish, so there's it's taunting you with the prospect of having to hunt up some more leeks unless you mean to use the leek solely as a way to bring out the farfetch'd's flavor or for stewing.

[Karen Lynn]

Now I'm planning a Pokemon diner. Thinking Tauros steak, Miltank milk, a side of Roselia salad with a Sunkern garnish...

[The Glyphstone]

Originally Posted by Adrian Korvedzk

Now I'm planning a Pokemon diner. Thinking Tauros steak, Miltank milk, a side of Roselia salad with a Sunkern garnish...

Throw in some grilled Oddish slices and a Vanillish for desert.

[Karen Lynn]

Hadn't even thought of that! Make some Miltank cheese, top the Tauros steak with that and grilled slices of Oddish and Foongus... Soup of the day can be Farfetch'd, Oddish, leek, and potato.

Drats... now I'm hungry...

[The Glyphstone]

Originally Posted by Adrian Korvedzk

Hadn't even thought of that! Make some Miltank cheese, top the Tauros steak with that and grilled slices of Oddish and Foongus... Soup of the day can be Farfetch'd, Oddish, leek, and potato.

Drats... now I'm hungry...

We've probably ruined a few childhoods as well...

[Karoht]

Originally Posted by Socratov

Ehm, maybe it's where I live, but in the Netherlands most cows are fed with grass, hay and if thsoe are ngo available on cattlefood. Sure steaks are expensive that way, but oh so good.

But why is corn used then? I can hardly imagine a reason to specifically grom more corn so you can ruin your animals with it.

Short answer: It's cheap. Farmers get more profit by paying less to feed their livestock.
Long ranty answer: Most people on this planet don't have a pallette worth mentioning. Proof positive is the multitude of people who eat at McDonalds on a fairly regular basis. As such, people just don't have an eye for quality.

Also, what the animal was fed is not always labelled on the package. Not all chicken is corn fed, true, but not all corn fed chicken is labelled as corn fed. And if it isn't labelled, most people don't have the curiosity/sense to ask. Most have no idea that corn fed is the lower quality. I've had arguements with people where they insist that grass fed cattle is the lower grade, because "grass has no nutritional value" which is facepalm fodder right there. But as such, the stores and the farmers get away with quite a lot, mostly due to a lack of food education and a lack of interest in where one's food comes from. Which goes hand in hand with why the average person has no idea the environmental effects of modern livestock agriculture. Or the degree to which some animals suffer at the hands of poor owners. People take all these things for granted because we can walk into a supermarket, swipe a card, and walk out with whatever we want.

I could go on, but then it slowly turns into multples of /rant and that's just no fun. But I'll say this right now. My fiance is a vet. Her boss used to do livestock. I'm pretty sure I could gross out just about anyone here with some of the stories he's told me, and he's only told me the tame stuff.

[Asta Kask]

Anything to do with agriculture is shot through with politics as well, so it's difficult to discuss here.

[Morbis Meh]

Originally Posted by Adrian Korvedzk

Hadn't even thought of that! Make some Miltank cheese, top the Tauros steak with that and grilled slices of Oddish and Foongus... Soup of the day can be Farfetch'd, Oddish, leek, and potato.

Drats... now I'm hungry...

Don't forget the steamed crabby with that tauros steak... mmm surf and turf, with a nice slice of cherrim pie.

Relevant to topic: PETA is crazy and meat is delicious say what you will about being better for the environment but it will not change the fact that meat will always be tasty and I shall enjoy until the end of my days....mmm bacon.

[Starwulf]

So, I read an article last night where PETA actually protested something that WAS pretty nasty >< Some "artist" dude created an exhibit that used live butterflies inside of a sealed, clear room/box/whatever, and around 9,000 of them died(400 died a day and needed to be replaced). Pretty horrific if you ask me ><

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...HV0UYrE0yPwH7Q

[araveugnitsuga]

Originally Posted by Starwulf

So, I read an article last night where PETA actually protested something that WAS pretty nasty >< Some "artist" dude created an exhibit that used live butterflies inside of a sealed, clear room/box/whatever, and around 9,000 of them died(400 died a day and needed to be replaced). Pretty horrific if you ask me ><

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j...HV0UYrE0yPwH7Q

Female butterflies lay around 100 eggs, for insects 9000 isn't much because they have ways to survive on by virtue of procreating faster than they can be killed. Art for art sake, pianos have been burned while being played in the name of music, and people haven't protested for ants or cockroaches deaths for less glorified purposes, it just happens butterflies look more beautiful so people can say "that's wrong".

And that's without considering that butterflies have a survival rate of 2% on the wild, which means they would have died anyway out there.

[Socratov]

Originally Posted by Karoht

Short answer: It's cheap. Farmers get more profit by paying less to feed their livestock.
Long ranty answer: Most people on this planet don't have a pallette worth mentioning. Proof positive is the multitude of people who eat at McDonalds on a fairly regular basis. As such, people just don't have an eye for quality.

Also, what the animal was fed is not always labelled on the package. Not all chicken is corn fed, true, but not all corn fed chicken is labelled as corn fed. And if it isn't labelled, most people don't have the curiosity/sense to ask. Most have no idea that corn fed is the lower quality. I've had arguements with people where they insist that grass fed cattle is the lower grade, because "grass has no nutritional value" which is facepalm fodder right there. But as such, the stores and the farmers get away with quite a lot, mostly due to a lack of food education and a lack of interest in where one's food comes from. Which goes hand in hand with why the average person has no idea the environmental effects of modern livestock agriculture. Or the degree to which some animals suffer at the hands of poor owners. People take all these things for granted because we can walk into a supermarket, swipe a card, and walk out with whatever we want.

I could go on, but then it slowly turns into multples of /rant and that's just no fun. But I'll say this right now. My fiance is a vet. Her boss used to do livestock. I'm pretty sure I could gross out just about anyone here with some of the stories he's told me, and he's only told me the tame stuff.

it's not about what's on the packet, but what I see them eat (around my house, farms in the enighbourhood, etc.)

Originally Posted by Morbis Meh

Don't forget the steamed crabby with that tauros steak... mmm surf and turf, with a nice slice of cherrim pie.

Relevant to topic: PETA is crazy and meat is delicious say what you will about being better for the environment but it will not change the fact that meat will always be tasty and I shall enjoy until the end of my days....mmm bacon.

hmmm and true, very true, hmmmmm bacon...

[Anarion]

Originally Posted by Socratov

hmmm and true, very true, hmmmmm bacon...

What would you call the equivalent from a tepig? tebacon?

[Xondoure]

Originally Posted by Socratov

it's not about what's on the packet, but what I see them eat (around my house, farms in the enighbourhood, etc.)

hmmm and true, very true, hmmmmm bacon...

Well you wouldn't really see all the cows that are locked up in meat factories with barely enough room to lie down now would you? The cows grazing peacefully out in the fields on the other hand are not only very visible, but make the entire area smell like cow pies.

[Katana_Geldar]

Cow pies = beef pies
Beef pies = good

From what I recall, corn is subsidised in the US to the point where it's rhe only viable thing economically in some areas.

It's not every country that has acres and acres of corn. A d that corn is done thing we can eat, so the cows are competing with us for food.

[Coidzor]

Originally Posted by Katana_Geldar

Cow pies = beef pies
Beef pies = good

From what I recall, corn is subsidised in the US to the point where it's rhe only viable thing economically in some areas.

It's not every country that has acres and acres of corn. A d that corn is done thing we can eat, so the cows are competing with us for food.

That's interesting. Cow pies are a euphemism for bovine excrement in the U.S.

And, yes, there is perhaps too much corn.

[Katana_Geldar]

They put it in soft drinks too, right? Is corn syrup as ubiquitous as I have heard it to be?

[Coidzor]

Originally Posted by Katana_Geldar

They put it in soft drinks too, right? Is corn syrup as ubiquitous as I have heard it to be?

It is in the majority of prepared foods, soda is probably one of the places, aside from certain baked goods and other confections(I know some use it as a binder(?) for pastry cream and certain kinds of icing), where corn syrup actually makes a certain amount of sense to use it if you've got it though.

[SDF]

Corn syrup has replaced sugar in soda, bread, most sauces and condiments, candy, most sugared drinks (that arent 100% juice), it can be found in many canned good, and processed anything. Its also used for gasoline, and its kind of silly because where they do it in Brazil they are closer to the equator and the delta on corn is much higher. Using US corn you end up using more energy than if you had just used regular gasoline. Its physics or some sciency thing like that.

[Herpestidae]

Originally Posted by Anarion

What would you call the equivalent from a tepig? tebacon?

Tepig is actually useful, though. And probably fire-resistant, to boot.

You'd be making Swinub or Spoink bacon.

Are there any other pig Pokemon?

[thubby]

Originally Posted by Herpestidae

Tepig is actually useful, though. And probably fire-resistant, to boot.

You'd be making Swinub or Spoink bacon.

Are there any other pig Pokemon?

*googles*
spoink and grumpig
*reads article*
psychic bacon?

[Xondoure]

Originally Posted by thubby

*googles*
spoink and grumpig
*reads article*
psychic bacon?

You called?

[H Birchgrove]

Originally Posted by The Succubus

The only problem with that is the acronym "People Eating Tasty Animals" doesn't really apply anymore. Unless you're Hannibal Lecter.

Lets have some fava beans and a glass of chianti to that.

[Karen Lynn]

Tepig bacon.
Fire type. Pig.
Pre cooked bacon?

"I'll take two Blissey eggs, Sunny side up, one Chansey Egg over easy, four strips of Tepig Bacon, a glass of juiced Tropius fruit... I think that'll be it for me."

[Socratov]

Originally Posted by Xondoure

Well you wouldn't really see all the cows that are locked up in meat factories with barely enough room to lie down now would you? The cows grazing peacefully out in the fields on the other hand are not only very visible, but make the entire area smell like cow pies.

I have seen some farms in the area, and I haven't seen that. I'm not sure, but I think there is some law against that in the netherlands (or at least it is heavily frowned upon). On another note, The corn that's grown for livestock purposes is not the corn you love to glaze and roast (that is, it's not sweet corn) andtastes horrible.

Originally Posted by H Birchgrove

Lets have some fava beans and a glass of chianti to that.

I like the way you are thinking

Originally Posted by Adrian Korvedzk

Tepig bacon.
Fire type. Pig.
Pre cooked bacon?

"I'll take two Blissey eggs, Sunny side up, one Chansey Egg over easy, four strips of Tepig Bacon, a glass of juiced Tropius fruit... I think that'll be it for me."

I'd rather have a magicarp, blissey omelette (souffle style), with bits of tepig bacon on the bottom with miltank cheese on top. (this thread is really hazardous for childhoods isn't it?)

[Karen Lynn]

Originally Posted by Socratov

I'd rather have a magicarp, blissey omelette (souffle style), with bits of tepig bacon on the bottom with miltank cheese on top. (this thread is really hazardous for childhoods isn't it?)

It's the only way I operate.

[Xondoure]

Originally Posted by Socratov

I have seen some farms in the area, and I haven't seen that. I'm not sure, but I think there is some law against that in the netherlands (or at least it is heavily frowned upon). On another note, The corn that's grown for livestock purposes is not the corn you love to glaze and roast (that is, it's not sweet corn) andtastes horrible.

I like the way you are thinking

I'd rather have a magicarp, blissey omelette (souffle style), with bits of tepig bacon on the bottom with miltank cheese on top. (this thread is really hazardous for childhoods isn't it?)

I never said we'd eat the same things they do, but growing different crops people can eat is more efficient.