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Xavier_On_High posted...

All that offal gets used to make other stuff. The meat industry is actually highly efficient, almost nothing goes to waste.

It's less about the parts going to waste and more about just raising less beef, is what I'm getting at. Hence about going to the olden days when meat was much more expensive and most people could only afford offal. Or would that be unsustainable given the other things the beef industry produces like leather, soaps, cosmetics and pet food?

When my mother was growing up in lower class Liverpool, meat was much more expensive than it was today. As such, her family could only afford the organ meats, such as liver, kidneys and hearts (Mum would always go on about how much she loved Grandma's liver and onions). Now with factory farming more prevalent, muscle cuts are much cheaper and offal is far less popular, to the point that where I live the only way to purchase offal is through a specialty butcher. Now with complaints of how environmentally damaging the meat industry is, would it be beneficial for society to turn back the clock; where factory farming wasn't as big and meat cuts were much more expensive (and people would need to eat things like kidneys, liver and tripe instead)? Or is the only way to scrap the beef/ pork industry all together and eat soybeans and insects or something?

g0ldie posted...

I saw a video of a cat faking its limp so it would be let back inside

video in question

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ih94oEBqPw

This reminds of when my father tried to teach me food etiquette by saying that eating with tools is what separates us from the animals, not knowing that a large amount of animals also eat using tools.