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China culls 38,000 pigs as swine fever spreads.
More than 38,000 pigs have been culled across China, state media said Sunday, as the world's largest pork producer scrambles to contain an outbreak of African swine fever.
The disease has been discovered in five Chinese provinces, the official Xinhua news service reported, quoting statistics from the country's ministry of agriculture.
China reported its first case of the disease in August in northeast Liaoning province.
Since then the disease has moved south, with cases discovered as far as 1,000 kilometres (600 miles) away, raising concerns it could infect pig farms across the country.
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(Score: 4, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Monday September 03 2018, @04:59PM (8 children)
You don't need animal corpses to get those things.
Bacon flavored bits ingredients:
Somehow - I just never got used to eating soy flour flavored to taste like charred animal flesh. I'd rather fry up some grasshoppers or something. It's the omnivorous side of my family tree I guess. The herbivore side died out long ago. Maybe that's why we have so little denisovan or neanderthal genetics left?
(Score: 1, Troll) by acid andy on Monday September 03 2018, @05:23PM
Perhaps next time you try out some fried veg you could read through some accident statistics or newspaper articles about ongoing wars. That way your irrational taste for death and suffering could be satiated whilst your taste buds are adequately titillated, Runaway.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 03 2018, @08:14PM (5 children)
Yeah, attempts to make soy taste like meat all fail. I'd rather have a decent Gardenburger, one of the ones that doesn't try to hide that it's soy, potato, and other vegetables.
Of course, one must then put bacon++ on it, lest one be suspected of being a vegan incel. Or worse! An MGTOW! A traitor to the patriarchy! Something like Chelsea Manning! amirite?!
Trigger warning!
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Monday September 03 2018, @08:32PM (2 children)
Don't know about all of that nonsense. I eat what I like to eat, and never worry about what someone who might be watching thinks. Traitor to the patriarchy? Do some people think like that? Something like Chelsea Manning? You mean Bradley Manning. amirite?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 04 2018, @05:50AM (1 child)
I really mean Bradley Womanning.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday September 04 2018, @07:29AM
Bradley Bitch?
(Score: 2) by acid andy on Tuesday September 04 2018, @12:44AM (1 child)
For some reason chefs and food manufacturers presenting vegan food seem to be obsessed with providing these "mock meats". I can see the idea might appeal to someone that enjoys meat but wants to transition to a vegan diet and wants to use them as a sort of temporary meat surrogate. I think there are a lot of fad dieters and hipsters that do the vegan thing now in a casual or temporary way to try and look cool, lose weight, or improve health. My own view is that if you want to become vegan permanently, you're just going to give yourself a hard time if you try and kid yourself these things are like meats. Better to just enjoy foods and their flavors on their own merits. Your palate soon changes. I would almost certainly vomit if I ate meat now. So, for vegans like me, the idea of mock meats is nausea-inducing -- and for meat lovers, they're likely to be a poor imitation. So, yeah, maybe it's better for everyone to just drop the pretense. Lab grown meat will fill the gap.
If a cat has kittens, does a rat have rittens, a bat bittens and a mat mittens?
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 04 2018, @02:14AM
The real tragedy of people who eat mock meats just to be hipsters is that they're missing things that are so much better.
For example, why screw around with fake hot dogs? That has to be the most disgusting mock meat I've ever tried. Instead, they should grill up some carrots and have carrot dogs. Not totally unlike a hot dog and so delicious, especially with salsa or even just mustard and relish.
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Monday September 03 2018, @08:56PM
That particular product seems to be "smoke flavored" in the hope that the burned taste will be evocative of burned meats. I don't detect much in the way of animal flavor except indirectly (the product smells almost, but not quite completely, unlike bacon, and scent is an important cue for flavor).
In order to get the right combination of things to make something taste like bacon, an essential step at our current state of the art in food science is still "add bacon."
I do see lots of products with misspelled names ("Sour Creme","Dairy Free Cheezecake") that don't contain anything that the name would seem to indicate, and "Bacn pieces" don't disappoint here, as they contain no bacon bits. Heck, they are certified Kosher. In my opinion, these foodlike products aren't a substitute for food.