How often do you eat meat?

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Heh.

But seriously, everyday. I don't know why, but I just can't feel... full without meat at some point in the day. Weird, but I need some form of beef to call it a day.

this person speaketh the truth!

you can't just have that perfect day without letting your teeth conquer a nice piece of meat,period.


OT: US here, and usually 2-3 times a day (yes, a day, i fucking love meat)


preferrably a nice new york strip medium rare with some A1 on the side...

*drools*

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

2) because it's not the healthiest thing to do and I honestly much prefer a nice piece of fish.

Contrary to what the USDA would like people to believe, eating red meat is not unhealthy.

It's actually the cooking process that most of these meats go through that's the issue.

Cooking red meats and fish under high temperatures creates heterocyclic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Which have a confirmed correlation with cancers.

Luckily for me, I eat my red meat blue and my fish very undercooked or completely raw.

But besides that, red meat has a high fat content, especially the higher quality it is. (Ever heard of marbling?) So eating red meat isn't as healthy as something like chicken which has a relatively low fat content.

just curious, what is "read meat blue" mean?


never heard of it before, and just curious by what you mean.

 

[Superior Mind]

Usually bacon sandwiches for lunch and one meat serving for dinner. So a decent amount.

 

[dogenzakaminion]

Hardly ever. I eat quite a bit of fish and other sea food but if I eat meat it's coming from a family farm (not a farm that my family owns, a farm that rears animals in a healthy way). Not against eating meat, just against factory farming.

Also, I know fish is technically meat and bycatch is a big problem in the fishing industry but I have to eat something. Plus I live in Norway so finding river caught fish is not hard.

 

[manic_depressive13]

I could eat meat all goddamn day. As my t-shirt clearly indicates,

That's really clever. Maybe I should get one too, to go with my shirt that says "I didn't colonise Africa to give black people their rights."

 

[Treefingers]

As of three weeks ago, not at all. Recently turned vegetarian.

EDIT:

I could eat meat all goddamn day. As my t-shirt clearly indicates,

That's really clever. Maybe I should get one too, to go with my shirt that says "I didn't colonise Africa to give black people their rights."

Totally agree with you there. I hear this kind of reasoning everywhere, and it's a really poor excuse for an argument.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

2) because it's not the healthiest thing to do and I honestly much prefer a nice piece of fish.

Contrary to what the USDA would like people to believe, eating red meat is not unhealthy.

It's actually the cooking process that most of these meats go through that's the issue.

Cooking red meats and fish under high temperatures creates heterocyclic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Which have a confirmed correlation with cancers.

Luckily for me, I eat my red meat blue and my fish very undercooked or completely raw.

But besides that, red meat has a high fat content, especially the higher quality it is. (Ever heard of marbling?) So eating red meat isn't as healthy as something like chicken which has a relatively low fat content.

just curious, what is "read meat blue" mean?


never heard of it before, and just curious by what you mean.

I said I eat my read meat blue. Blue is just a way the meat is cooked. Think rare.... only rarer.

lol yeah woops i had a typo, but you got what i meant

and yum, i love my meat nice and bloody...which you are saying it's a good thing to eat it decently rare? or its bad and you should cook it until it's a fucking rock

 

[iamyourjesus]

It's not a proper meal with out meat.

 

[Apollo45]

Daily. It's odd if I don't have some sort of meat for at least two meals per day, and often it's three per.

The best meat is the meat you kill yourself though. Elk, dove, pheasant, wild boar, goose, duck... Ya, meat is awesome.

 

[Vivi22]

But besides that, red meat has a high fat content, especially the higher quality it is. (Ever heard of marbling?) So eating red meat isn't as healthy as something like chicken which has a relatively low fat content.

This is what I was essentially getting at with my post though. There has never been any study which has shown a link between eating high amounts of fat from meat and diseases like heart disease. In fact, it's fairly clear now that the major cause of things like heart disease and clogged arteries is actually carbohydrates. Sugar and modern wheat being the bigger culprits. Eating a lot of fat won't even make you gain weight, something which is once again caused by over eating carbs resulting in blood glucose spiking and the body being forced to release insulin to store the excess glucose as fat.

Eating a high fat diet (as the USDA would define it anyway) is not bad for you. In fact, animal fats are pretty essential to proper brain function. The idea that eating a high fat diet is bad came about during the 60's with the McGovern committee. But their dietary recommendations (which became the recommendations of the US government) weren't based on good science.

As to the issue of the cooking process producing compounds that have a correlation with increased rates of cancer, I have heard this before (including the claim that it's not an issue if you don't overcook meat) but I'm not familiar enough with any of the actual studies showing it to really comment on whether or not the claim carries any real weight. The thing is, as I'm sure you know, that correlation does not necessarily mean one thing causes another, and there is a lot of bad science that crops up again and again in the field of nutrition.

 

[Quaidis]

I have pondered eating less meat in my most recent life. And I have changed my breakfast into more vegetarian things such as oatmeal. But meat makes up most of my life.

Tomorrow I'm going to eat a blood and tongue sausage sandwich =D



I have yet to be in Australia, but if you go to Poland, most people eat meat all the time, all meals. You can get sick of meat there after a point.

 

[Evilbunny]

This thread could use a poll, but I eat meat 1-2 times a day. Usually for dinner but sometimes also for lunch rarely for breakfast. Although when I was in college I'd eat bacon for breakfast almost every day I don't know how I didn't get fat.

 

[kickyourass]

Almost everyday, the only thing better then a perfectly ripened melon is a well cooked hunk of meat (That sounded FAR less suggestive in my head).

And just to rain on everyone's parade stay on topic, people who gloat about how much meat you eat are really annoying and immature. We get it, you love eating animals, no need to boast all day about it.

I agree people like that are almost as annoying as the vegans who seem to think they're shit's made of gold just because they don't drink milk.

 

[Zarkov]

Seeing as I can only get meat from pigs, no. I mean, you punch the pigs and... poof bacon.

Thus I grow wheat to survive on this island.

 

[TheTurtleMan]

I eat meat every day if I can. Usually I only eat it for dinner because while a big juicy burger is better than a pb and j, it takes a lot longer to make, unless you go fast food but I don't consider that meat to be too healthy.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

2) because it's not the healthiest thing to do and I honestly much prefer a nice piece of fish.

Contrary to what the USDA would like people to believe, eating red meat is not unhealthy.

It's actually the cooking process that most of these meats go through that's the issue.

Cooking red meats and fish under high temperatures creates heterocyclic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Which have a confirmed correlation with cancers.

Luckily for me, I eat my red meat blue and my fish very undercooked or completely raw.

But besides that, red meat has a high fat content, especially the higher quality it is. (Ever heard of marbling?) So eating red meat isn't as healthy as something like chicken which has a relatively low fat content.

just curious, what is "read meat blue" mean?


never heard of it before, and just curious by what you mean.

I said I eat my read meat blue. Blue is just a way the meat is cooked. Think rare.... only rarer.

lol yeah woops i had a typo, but you got what i meant

and yum, i love my meat nice and bloody...which you are saying it's a good thing to eat it decently rare? or its bad and you should cook it until it's a fucking rock

Definitely don't cook till it's a rock.

Raw meat (especially red) contains a lot of creatine which, when consumed, is linked with helping memory and cognitive functions.

When you subject natural creatine, like that found in meat, to intense heat. It transforms into heterocyclic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. Which are basically carcinogens.

So the more you cook a piece of meat, the more of these carcinogens you consume.

So on base logic, the rarer you eat your red meat. The better. I'm just highlighting that because cooking white meat rare has it's own issues. Pork and chicken don't have to be well done per-sey. But rare isn't such a smart idea.

Most fish can be eaten completely raw, like a good piece of steak if you so choose, but I'd consult some cookery books on that. It's kinda seen as a little risky if you're not all that familiar with fish preparation.

I like cooking, so I read up on a lot of this sort of stuff.

ah i see, yeah i knew that about chicken but i wasn't sure about red meat, which is thankfully good as i love having my meat still bloody/tender, so all the better reason for me to be eating it rare.

plus better amounts of creatine sounds good to me, goin to the gym every day can only help that cause.

unfortunately i have never liked fish (i might someday..i've had some surprising changes with my taste buds as of late) but i love to fish, so usually i go fishing and will bring back 4-5 fish for the family and then i'll get a new york strip from the market and cook that for myself.

anyways, thanks for clearing that up, people always used to get mad and say eating it rare was bad.