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Fuck You Disgusting Flesh Ads! on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

This personal form of activisim I find quite interesting.

Take a picture of yourself giving the finger to stuff you hate, like Steak.

[update: 2/28/08, veganbutterfly removed this most evocative and compelling picture. boo hoo!]

Items from various places [old but interesting]:

• What steakhouses reveal about the weakness of the U.S. economy - Slate Magazine
• craftsteak: simplicity « just hungry.
• Recipes : Gaucho Rib-Eye Steaks : Food Network
• cupcake club: Where’s the beef? ( about a band called Palace Family Steakhouse )

If you’re in Anchorage, eat here!

Originally uploaded by Dan Hershman

And great photography too!

If you have time, take a look at Dan Hershman’s other photos too. They’re nice.

Also, if you have even more time, hike up to Anchorage and let me know how the steaks are at Club Paris.

Moments of Clarity: Do you Wagyu?

“Wagyu” style beef is the U.S.and Australia’s version of babying a bovine to ensure it’s bud busting bodaciousness. Boy that was bad.

More info at the Wagyu/Kobe FAQ.

Less meat, less heat — fewer steaks may save planet - Yahoo News

You may have wondered why we haven’t been writing anything lately.

It’s because what we’re writing about, the lifestyle that we’re promoting, the indulgences we crow about, are just plain DESTROYING THE DAMN PLANET.

So, we’re sorry. Maybe we should hang up our butcher’s hat, and call this whole thing an irresponsible, youthful lark.

Maybe we’ll start up a new page, call it something like Tofu-Bamboo-and-Krill-feed.com.

Or what about those clone steaks??

We are so EFF-ing depressed right now. Except when we think about the absolutely fabulous marion-berry barbecued rib-eye we just ate, and are having leftovers of for lunch today. OH! How sublime total world destruction can taste!

So, in Costa Rica, the primary (if not only) cattle raised is the Brahman, or crossbreeds of Brahman with European beef cattle. This is probably because:

Brahmans have a greater ability to withstand heat than European cattle. They have more sweat glands, and also an oily skin, thought to help repel pest insects. They are also more resistant to parasites and disease.

I’m trying to find research about the qualities of Brahman beef for steak, etc. because I felt differently about it than I do about the steak we prefer here in the States. It also tended to be prepared differently, especially in the Costa Rican Typical cuisine we had; also, when there were steaks prepared in the USian Steakhouse manner, I felt they did not taste as I expected them to.

sorry for the hiatus in writing stuff. I’ve been getting married (yay! grilled flank for the reception — 111% good) and now I’m off to Central America to see how they do steaks down there.

This brief dearth of any substantial writing brought to you by a one-time gig writing something for These Jerks.

Meanwhile, stay tuned for another steak mosaic and maybe I’ll drag something out of the pile of Drafts stinking up the place.

Apparently, cows “want” to walk around in the sunshiny green meadows, and to not be treated like machines.

I wonder if they also “feel resentment” about being cut up and grilled?

Whatever your point of view (and I hope you’re here because your point of view is that you really, really love to eat the bountiful goodness provided for our health and pleasure by God’s wonderous creation, Cattle) … I just want to say, they’re talking about DAIRY cows. It’s DAIRY cows who are trying to band together to demand better working conditions in the production of MILK! This has 100% NOTHING whatsoever to do with the cattle whose sole purpose on this earth is as a vessel for the conversion of vegetable matter into life-giving beefsteak which brings us closer to holiness.

Thank you very much,
The SteakFeed Team.