More Than Meats the Eye June 23, 2009
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I'm pretty excited about the release of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen tomorrow, since word on the street is that the movie has a positive animal rights message in it. There's even a scene set in a butcher shop where Megan Fox's and Shia Labeouf's characters learn that every animal you eat had a story. We hear them on that.
In honor of the release of the movie, we're transforming (hah!) the classic Transformers tagline into "More Than Meats the Eye," for the title of our top-five list that takes a closer look at the meat industry. Most people never take an up-close look at the food they're eating. I mean, seriously, who wants to think about their food actually looking like this (even though it does)?:
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Want seconds of this fatty blob of nastiness? *Shudder!* Anyway, here are the top five foods that I think are "More Than Meats the Eye":
1) Jell-O: How does Jell-O stay firm but wiggly? You can thank gelatin (aka the ground-up skin, intestines, and bones of animals) for that jiggle. Who doesn't like bones in their fruity snacks?Do some of these sound a bit ... unappetizing? Try vegan versions! Grab soy milk the next time you hit up the grocery store or give a homemade snack cake a whirl. You can still enjoy all the flavors you love while cutting out the cruelty and crap!
2) Hot Dogs: These are made from mechanically recovered meat, which Wikipedia describes as, "a paste-like meat product produced by forcing beef, pork, turkey or chicken bones, with attached edible meat, under high pressure through a sieve or similar device to separate the bone from the edible meat tissue." If you're in the mood for tails, bones, and anuses topped with relish at a ball game, steer clear of the veggie dogs, since they're mostly just made of plain ol' boring soy protein.
3) Milk: Pus doesn't exactly conjure up the most pleasant of images, but if the idea of a tall frosty glass of pus sounds good to you, by all means, feel free to down a glass of milk. That's right, milk can legally contain a somatic cell count (that's pus, people) of up to 200 million per liter.
4) Twinkies: Where does that fatty flavor come from? Beef fat, of course! Sponge cake + creamy filling + cow fat = the classic truck-stop snack. Yum.
5) Cheese: Rennet, found in many cheeses, comes from the stomach lining of slaughtered calves. I personally try to avoid baby cow stomach on my nachos, but maybe that's just me.
Which foods do you think are "More Than Meats the Eye"?
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Comments
Oh god stop with the puns. :(
Even if they work just no.......no puns. T_T
Posted by: Pepsi One is Fun at June 23, 2009 7:43 PMtwinkies have beef fat??? lame.
Posted by: cody at June 23, 2009 8:36 PMHahah, you're vocabulary is entertaining. Nicely written(=
Posted by: Jessica at June 23, 2009 11:06 PMwhoa.I didn't not know about these things.I literally almost threw up.I don't know what to eat anymore.=/
Posted by: seri at June 24, 2009 10:41 AMWhoa I'm glad I'm a vegetarian, and I stopped drinking milk...but I used to be a big cheese fan. But I just read and I got veryyyyy sick feeling. Seriously, I'm going to do everything I can to avoid cheese now.
THANK YOU for posting this!
Oh my gosh, that is the most disgusting picture ever!! I just did a video on vegan marshmallows and how disgusting gelatin is. But all I need to do is flash that picture to turn people off of gelatin and gross animal products for life.
Unfortunately I keep finding out that animal products are hidden in things that I never expected... for example gelatin is in photographic film, on glossy paper and playing cards, etc.
Posted by: Michelle Taylor Cehn at June 24, 2009 1:45 PMI don't eat Twinkies, but I thought they had replaced the fat with cellulose gum...
Posted by: Kaitlin at June 24, 2009 1:54 PM
I've been vegan for over a year now oh my gosh I STILL almost vomited.
So gross.
yay!
vegetarian here!
and i'm so glad!
veggie dogs/burgers are VERY yummy
and soy milk is better than regular
HECK YES TRANSFORMERS!
PS for the Rennet thing, try your local health food store for some rennet free cheese for those who arent ready for a big commitment like veganism. I did that for a year.
Stupid gelatine. There's gelatine in my new anti depressants. I'm so upset. I was doing so well with my veganism, too. :(
Posted by: at June 24, 2009 7:47 PMEwh, for a typical fat kid,
I'm never eating twinkies agaim.
yuckk.!
i am allergic to diary products and a vegetarian soon to be vegan, i thank god i am. this is horrifying
Posted by: jordan at June 24, 2009 7:57 PMI just thought I'd say that most cheese(where i come from anyway) is rennet free! I've never seen many that aren't, and I always check! Yeugh to the rest though!! Thank god I knew about the ones that would affect me already though!! Been a veggie since I was 3!!
Posted by: xxchilloutxx at June 24, 2009 8:18 PMomg these facts are really interesting. and i like that peta approves transformers 2 cuz im dying to see that. im trying to go vegetarian, starting by drinking vegan milk, which actually tastes awesome. Rock on PETA!!
~ m3
Oh no...Jell-O too?
Oh god NO!
...It's ok, I never really have it anyway so not having it again will be just fine.
And I don't like the rest of those things anyway ('cept milk, but I can rely on soy milk for that).
+D
-barf-
Posted by: payton at June 24, 2009 8:23 PMi'm so loving how, below the picture of meat, theres a link for "fast food" XD
WIN!
God I just ate a taco (made with morning star meat, of course!) but since I had cheese on it, now I feel like throwing it back up. Man I want to be vegan but it's so damn hard.
Posted by: lady c at June 24, 2009 10:26 PMI'm a vegetarian!I try being a vegan,but i can't find stuff like soy cheese.
And i tried Silk Soy Milk Light,but I like the original better.
But it's sorta hard being a vegetarian though.There's no other veggies where I live,so in turn,not many vegan foods.
My "friend" was trying to be a vegetarian,but she eats meat soooo many times a day.And this one dude convinced her that being a veg is a waste of time, and we don't save animals.She's been mean to me all my life.Literally.We've known each other since we were 1!
Sorry for the random stuff...
It happens.
A lot
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Mechanically recovered meat is why my kitty only get the food with real chicken. She deserves better.
I believe more people would go vegan if they knew about rennet. Poor baby cows. :(
Posted by: at June 23, 2009 6:48 PM