And Now For the News...

[dai bread]

On the other hand, the carnivore doesn't have to spend most of the day eating.

[Giant Communist Robot]

With a carnivore, you have to feed it meat in order to get meat--not efficient. You could just skip a step and not eat the carnivore at all. With browsers and grazers you feed them plants to get meat.

Maybe I'm thinking of a protein source.

[Shapley]

Horses are supposedly less efficient at converting hay to protein. It is said that cows and sheep will put on more weight than horses given the same volume of food.

Cows, having four stomachs, apparently have the advantage. We've discussed cross-breeding them with sheep to produce Shcowps over in the 'Something Different' thread.

What if we were to produce a herd of hows or corses? If we build a better cheval, will the French beat a path to our slaughterhouse doors?

[Giant Communist Robot]

What if we were produce a heard of hows or corses? If we build a better cheval, will the French beat a path to our slaughterhouse doors?

The future is open wide.

[Shapley]

I can't believe I mixfused 'heard' with 'herd'.

[jamiebk]

I don't have an issue with eating horse meat...I've had it before. This isn't new. Years ago when beef prices soared (60's???), horse meat was sold as an alternative for while. It's OK...not very tender though. Meat is meat.

[Haggis@wk]

When I went thru tech school in Witchita, TX we had fried rabbit. Some of the Yankee lads were apalled that we were eating Flopsey, Mopsey and Bugs. I think it's more the environment you're raised in than anything else.

[jamiebk]

When I went thru tech school in Witchita, TX we had fried rabbit. Some of the Yankee lads were apalled that we were eating Flopsey, Mopsey and Bugs. I think it's more the environment you're raised in than anything else.

I rather cotton to rabbit myself....

[Haggis@wk]

I rather cotton to rabbit myself....

Tastes like chicken!!!

[Trumpetmaster]

I rather cotton to rabbit myself....

Tastes like chicken!!!

Yuch... go eat some frogs legs then.....
I was told that tasted like chicken..................

the people who told me that were WRONG

[Haggis@wk]

[Yuch... go eat some frogs legs then.....
I was told that tasted like chicken..................

the people who told me that were WRONG

I remember gigging frogs with my father when I was 5 or so. I remember eating them but can't recall what they tasted like. Dad loved them!

[Shapley]

I think, after you've re-used the grease enough times, even a fried Twinkie will taste like chicken...

Methinks we change the grease more often these days, but back when I was a youngster, they got a lot of mileage out of the grease in the fryer...

[Trumpetmaster]

[Yuch... go eat some frogs legs then.....
I was told that tasted like chicken..................

the people who told me that were WRONG

I remember gigging frogs with my father when I was 5 or so. I remember eating them but can't recall what they tasted like. Dad loved them!

The ONLY time I tried them, I almost threw up the moment I tasted them. OMG..... they have a special "twang" to them....

[Haggis@wk]

[quote="Trumpetmaster]The ONLY time I tried them, I almost threw up the moment I tasted them. OMG..... they have a special "twang" to them.... [/quote]

I think you have to cook them first......

[Haggis@wk]

Hard for me to have sympathy on a TSA agent who accuses another TSA agent of sexual assault. Isn’t that what those guys do for a living?

[Haggis@wk]

The Worst Quackery of 2011: Battlefield Acupuncture


Speechless.....simply speechless

[dai bread]

Acupuncture works. I can't speak for wounded soldiers, but I saw it working on my wife's trigeminal neuralgia.

She would sit at the dining table with tears streaming down her face from the pain. This from a woman who bore 3 children. Her doctor, a middle-aged Caucasian, sent her to another doctor, an elderly Caucasian, who practiced acupuncture. He gave her a heavy dose of it- 3 sessions a week, if I remember rightly, for 2 or 3 weeks. Then the treatment tapered off to a top-up every six months, and eventually not even that. No more pain.

Don't ask me why it worked. I have no idea and as far as I know nobody else does either. But it works. I no longer regard it as fringe or alternative medicine. It is the treatment of choice for trigeminal neuralgia. The only other treatment I've heard of involves cutting the trigeminal nerve, leading to partial paralysis of the face with resultant drooling lopsidedness.

It was interesting when she changed practitioners. The elderly Caucasian was replaced by a middle-aged Chinese (from Singapore). He put his needles into different places from those used by the elderly Caucasian.
Why? That seems to be anybody's guess.

[BigJon]

Because acupuncture works the same no matter where the needles are placed. There are no meridians in the human body, but there are bundles of nerves that control regions of the body. The combination of alternate stimulus to the regional nerves and the placebo effect seems to cause the brain to de-emphasize the pain from that area.

[Haggis@wk]

BS! Any quack using AP on the battlefield better damn sure hope his patents are unconscious and/or unarmed

[dai bread]

Sorry, Haggis. This is one time when I have the personal experience, not you.