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posted by takyon on Friday July 17 2015, @11:35AM   Printer-friendly
from the bacon-is-natural dept.

Scientists are currently cultivating a marine plant that's packed with more nutrients than the trendy green superfood kale. And it naturally tastes like bacon.

Bacon-flavored crackers. Bacon-flavored salad dressing. These are just two of the savory treats that have been created so far using the domesticated strain of dulse (Palmaria palmata), a kind of red algae, or seaweed, that typically grows in the waters along northern Pacific and Atlantic coastlines.

I wonder if this will pass muster with my kosher- and halal-observing friends.


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2015, @01:42PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2015, @01:42PM (#210417)

    I've found that many people are strange in their own way.

    Being too strange is like trying to define the obscene: you know it when you see it.

    While I agree that some religious beliefs or observations can appear to be quite illogical in our present era, some of the practices are rooted in what was sound advice at the time. I say some because I am ignorant regarding much of the topic...

    Many scavenging creatures would eat things that would make a person sick, or lived in conditions that could spread illness, or otherwise required much in the way of careful treatement that a typical uneducated commoner would have had a hard time fulfilling while keeping safe. People still die from eating pork that was not cooked properly. It could be argued that the nitrites and such used in bacon preservation has made the practice of eating pork worse, despite the advances in husbandry.

    The comment about what happens in slaughterhouses, and how the animals are raised/farmed--those are moral questions as well, and having owned pets, it is saddening to know that animals are not only eaten, but treated poorly before they are killed--and the killing may not be done in a humane way, either. Killing in and of itself is not very humane in the context that the animal is healthy and was born to die.

    I am no vegetarian, but I do consider the plight of animals before I eat their nicely packaged remains. And sometimes, my pets join in the eating... ignorance is bliss. But when it comes to undercooked pork, and the health problems resulting from improper treatment of the food (at any stage of the preparation process--from cradle to crave...), it could be argued that the prohibition is not a bad one. It is the context in which they adhere to it that is of most question to me, at least.

    Hippies are called wackos, extreme right wing bloggers are wackos, far left progressives are wackos -- we're all wackos. Some wackos are worse than others!

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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday July 17 2015, @04:28PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Friday July 17 2015, @04:28PM (#210493) Journal

    Being too strange is like trying to define the obscene: you know it when you see it.

    Walmartians.

    Ugh, ewwww + lol=Walmartians.

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