Moving to the west from asia, I've noticed a lot of your meats are prepared and processed so that they dont actually look like animals anymore. In the groceries, in restaurants, etc.
Which probably makes it easier for the meat industry to keep mistreating farm animals.
I’ve been vegetarian most of my life except for a few years of eating chicken when I was like 18. Even as manicured as our meat tends to be it still freaks me out thinking about what it actually is and how cutting up someone’s thigh into particular cuts and then putting it in a plastic box isn’t any different imo.
People can eat what they want but im always surprised when people are grossed out by certain types of meat like horse or dog or even chickens feet like ?? it’s no different I think people just need a certain level of moral superiority and detachment but it doesn’t make sense to me
This is also something I don’t understand. It’s a huge double standard when I talk to people about their meat eating habits.
I live in a country where pig, cow and chickens are the main meats, but when it’s brought to people’s attention that sheep, horses, dogs, rabbits, pigeons etc are also eaten in other countries, suddenly it’s some sort of affront to eat those animals.
Yet, when I explain other people find eating pigs or cows disgusting, it becomes “Why not?They’re delicious.”
Chopping up a person's thigh is a little different. Human meat contains chemicals that cause active damage to the brain of animals that eat it. Unfortunately, it's slow acting enough it doesn't serve as a defence mechanism against short-lived species of predators.
It’s still flesh of a living being is my point. It would feel absurd to see human thigh steak on the shelves which is how it feels to me seeing raw meat idk im not preaching just talking about my perspective
Horse is poisonous if not cooked, prepared, or raised right. Dogs are a animal we created through years of breeding of course we would be emotional about that.
Chicken feet is very popular in Asia and Africa. For me ot just doesn't taste of much and not great nutritionally.
Cognitive dissonance is a powerful thing. Same reason smokers can still smoke cigarettes even though they know it's killing them. The fact that most meats go by a different name from the animal it comes helps too.
The names being different is mostly just an accident of language and class. Animals named after the native Britons working with them, the meat named from the mostly French lords eating it after the Norman invasion.
I eat mostly plant based, I don’t have milk or cheese in my house but I do eat eggs for protein reasons. Byproduct industry is horrific and im inclined to agree with you but im not a vegan or 100% plant based so to claim that would be disingenuous.
That goes the other way as well. We definitely try to make our meat not look like corpses, by removing the heads etc. But if you say do any anatomy, you really quickly shift from that being somebody's body, to that being an interesting pile of meat (bones, nerves, sacks, stringy bits etc etc) - it's definitely not a person.
I agree it's odd how we treat different animals, but the big one is cannibalism.
Most people think it's different killing a person or a chicken - but after they're both dead, it's all just meat. Right?
That’s very true, it’s all perspective and I find it very fascinating everyone has their own.
I don’t really feel like there is much difference meat is murder yadda yadda but that’s not the world we live in and im accepting of the fact that people want to and feel they need to eat meat.
I'm a meat eater and whilst not considering it murder, do find it all very odd.
My cat used to bring in mangled animals, and it made me question both how my gorgeous boy seemingly enjoyed torturing other animals, but I then when I had to humanely dispatch them - I then realized that after a lifetime of meat eating, I'd never killed anything larger than a wasp.
Started to think maybe meat eaters should be made to kill, before they could eat meat - but that then gave rise to a vision of middle class families taking their kids into the hills with a bolt-gun, to "pick their own lamb"
My ex who i still talk to, comes from a family of goat farmers. He lives in Greece in the mountains, so their standard of care for livestock/farm animals is very different. Theyre very cruel over there towards animals and he has seen all of that, even cried to me about watching them cut their guard dogs ears/tails and how he had to slaughter a baby goat himself on more than once occasion. He also watched his grandpa shoot a wild dog for being close to the property. But he still eats meat, it's interesting how people can go through things like that and be so traumatised by it, but continue to contribute to it. I never hold it against him though, he has a lot of respect for animals and a better appreciation for meat and dairy because of the things he has been through/ seen growing up as a little boy
And they think all kinds of processing is the same. Some meat is actively carcinogenic... Bacon and most cold cuts are treated with nitrite salt to preserve. Vegetarian food being processed is not nearly on the same ball park. Even if you grind something that is already being processed. Most of the time is being pureed, and vitamines like B12 added. That is the big processing in vegan food... Not nearly similar to dipping it in cancer-causing stuff
I agree the "I don't want to think about where it comes from" people are stupid, but are you seriously suggesting Asia is better than the west in terms of animal rights?
100%... Probably a lot of population would think meat comes from the supermarket and I'm not even joking. If you ever try being vegetarian you realize how few people care what goes into their food. Let's just say even if I stop being vegetarian I will never eat nuggets and sausage for sure.
As a chef, I often wonder while chopping up chicken wings how many people would refuse to eat them if they were shown it before being prepared. Not me, I fucking love chicken wings.
I had a housemate back in the day who would fill the fridge with chicken breasts (he was doing atkins before keto was a thing). We suggested that buying whole chickens would save him a bunch of money. He admitted he didn't want his animal meat to look like, well, an animal.
I’ve heard this before, but pus is just white blood cells. I’d be concerned if there wasn’t some white blood cells in milk. Granted, if they’re higher than average then that means the cow is unhealthy but there still has to be some or infection would run rampant prepasteurisation.
Fun fact, every dairy at the point of admission tests for both antibiotics and somatic cell count as a critical control point. If there are significant white blood cell counts in the milk it gets picked up at initial testing and refused.
Somatic cells are supposed to be in milk, hell they are supposed to be everywhere, Even in healthy animals. If mammals didn't have white blood cell counts in their milk they'd all die of severe mastitis the second they started lactating. Its one of what I consider to be the really shitty and insipid vegan arguments to go "omg pus in milk" when the legal maximums are significantly below the levels you would expect in cattle with actual udder infections, and are more in line with "the cow might have a cold" Its up there with the dishonesty of the meat industry as arguments go, with the industry often trying to sanitise and hide all the actual biology meanwhile some vegan groups point to perfectly normal white cells counts in cows milk and significantly dramatize what it actually is
And even if it wasn't modern processing techniques mean none of it ends up in the bottle by the end, Pasteurisation would kill whatever was causing the high white cell count regardless and modern filtered milk is quite literally pushed through ceramic filters so small that the actual bacterial and white cells themselves are filtered out with basically only the water and milk proteins getting through.
Unless you are drinking it straight out of the bucket at the farm and deliberately ignoring obvious signs of severe sickness nobody is drinking "pus" in cows milk. There are plenty of solid arguments they do have if they want to come after the dairy industry without resorting to ridiculous alarmist hyperbole based on biological inaccuracy and fear mongering
I personally don't trust corporations to do the right thing. Your local small farmer might have a moral compass but some large organization doesn't care at all.
Good news you don't have to trust corporations or morals. Just the basic self preservation instincts of the senior staff at any given dairy.
The structure of the UK dairy sector means the only two real players left are in a massive competition with each other over quality anyway. But the law and people's careers means "trusting the corp" isn't a relevant problem.
When it comes to food safety law the buck doesn't stop with the heads of corporate, but with the senior leadership on the site that produced that food item. So while the senior heads at say Arla might be more than happy to put profit over people. The site lead at Amsbury isn't going to risk serious prison time to make global happy. Equally the site quality manager knows it's the absolute death of his career if the site starts dumping infected milk here there and everywhere.
The law is set up this way on purpose for that exact reason. It's puts the true responsibility for food safety not with corporate but with the actual factory making it. And because then there's no way to duck that responsibility and site leads are ultimately big fish on their own site but small players in the overall organisation they aren't going to put the head above the parapet for a few thousand litres of lost production every few months.
Honestly think it’s just a getting used to it type thing, I love a cup of tea with oat milk now but definitley didn’t when I first stopped drinking dairy.
You're absolutely right. Now, tea with oat or soy milk just tastes like tea to me, it tastes like what it's supposed to taste like. My wife still puts dairy milk in her tea and the smell of the milk is overpowering.
I prefer almond in tea and coffee, much better imo.
What happens is starch gelatinisation. To make it short, hot liquid cooks the starch making it thicker and more gel-like. This process also alters the taste. Think of how different raw oats and water are like compared to porridge.
Oats are very starchy, so in hot chocolate or porridge that starch gelatinisation works great, combines with everything and emulsifes very well.
But in tea, this doesn't work as good. The proteins holding the oat milk together actually become denatured due to the acidity, the heat can also speed up this process. Which can cause curdling quicker. So you'll get that gelatinised starch coating your taste buds instead of it emulsifying with the tea, making everything taste a little off.
Because of this, it's also why oat milk will have more stabilisers than other plant based milks and will curdle in tea and coffee quicker.
And it's basically because it would be completely impractical and not really possible to actually remove all of it, like food would need to be made in a quarantine lab.
And if that's not enough you can try crippling emotional guilt and excessive-to-devastating of empathy, with a good dollop of shame, all from a mental health condition. It's ~~killing~~ working for me!
Same, I was always a bit fussy with meat and told my parents I wanted to be vegetarian when I was about 6. We kept eating meat as a family but I distinctly remember seeing a vein in a bit of lamb and that was it. Never ate lamb again.
When I moved out I finally went vegetarian, and am now vegan.
I had the same story and then I also found out ham came from pigs and that was it. Jam sandwiches from then on and I put all the other kids off their ham butties so some parents were a bit annoyed. Still ate little bits of meat here and there and went veggie at 9 and haven’t eaten meat since.
animal juice as it had blood and all sorts pumping through it! mmmmmm yummy! also that's why im a vegetarian of 25 years and i dont even wear sandals or nuffin🤣
Not really, just pull it out and eat the steak. It's exactly what the butcher already did anyway, they just missed a spot. Maybe don't eat so much meat if you can't face the reality that what you're eating is the chopped up body of an actual living, breathing animal.
I already barley eat meat as it is so I’m doing fine there, I understand what an animal goes through going into a slaughter house but I can’t even begin to imagine the terror they must feel in their final moments walking to their death, I also wouldn’t harm a fly and often spend upto 5 minutes trying to get a single fly out my room, stood on a snail or slug? I will feel terrible and my mood will be ruined, but for me to be put off by a big vein in a steak is what unacceptable?
To add your reply is funny trying to imply I have no sympathy for the animal I eat, respect for its life or knowledge about how it’s raised and slaughtered
It's just odd to say you don't want steak because its vein reminds you of the animal but will carry on eating chicken and turkey as if a dead chicken is any different to a dead cow.
Where did I say I don’t want steak because the vein reminds me of an animal?
You can tell I never said that because I look at a bit of meat and think of the animal it once was I don’t need to see a vein to think of an animal?
I said this has put me off steak, at no point did I said “this vein reminds me this steak was once an animal”
And like I said as soon as I eat a bit of chicken and come across something like this or a large blood vessel or a tumour or something then that’ll be the last time I eat chicken
The part where you say 'I’m done with beef now as well, let me keep chicken and a bit of turkey' under an image of a steak with a vein.
It's an interesting level of ignorance to be in where you're fine eating a dead animal up until the point you're reminded visually of what it is you're eating.
Like, what did you think it was before you saw the blood vessel in a chicken breast.
Every piece of chicken you've eaten has had blood vessels in it, they just get removed before you get it, so you're fine eating dead animals as long as you can live in ignorance and ignore the yucky parts
I bet you’re happy that the story about the lady who ordered fried chicken and later discovered that what she thought was mayonnaise was a pus-filled tumor, was not in fact true.
Ah yes, the helpful reminder that you're eating the flesh of an animal that used to have blood flowing through it while living life as a confined meal-growing subordinate before it's existence was terminated to feed people who feel queasy when they find these reminders - Bon appetit.
Nah, you can get it from undercooked beef as well, it's just less common. If I remember correctly, very rare steak and steak tartare are classic vectors (although the risk is lessened if it's been frozen first).
I agree that's not a worm though. You don't get full grown tapeworms in ordinary meat. The adult worms live in the guts of the animal. It's their larvae that burrow out into the muscle tissue and form tiny cysts, so infected meat wouldn't look like this. That's a blood vessel.
Yeah, not a bad shout. I figured there's also a higher chance of it being an intercostal artery (which aligns with ribcage) but there's no reason it couldn't be rump
During the second stage of the cows lifecyle, (the first being the incubation stage of course), the bovine gene seeks and destroys, searching for a living host to spread its young.
This process normally takes 2 working days, depending on traffic, and if lucky, a host, such as yourself, is chosen. The larval cortex secreets a special pheromone to check if you're older than 18, and if you're using a VPN. Returning negative the larval cortex withers and dies out of sheer boredom of reading this comment. Returning positive, the larval cortex attaches itself to you, thus turning you into a herdable sweetpea, longed after by yorkshire farmers.
I had that same thing happen to me last night in my steak. Horrid to see. It looked like a slimey, snotty Worm but was just a blood vessels that was not taken out by the butcher. Still ate the steak. I'll let you know if that was a bad idea.
It's a piece of dead flesh what do you expect.its a bit like a head in a nugget box its chicken made to look like something it isn't.this is a bull chopped up to look like a piece of shit.
On a scale of Aliens to Alien Resurrection how good/bad is it? I’m so close to being done with the franchise as a whole after the cringe of Romulus, is it really worth the time?
It's not short on the cringe dialogue that Romulus had plenty of, but it also has plenty of cool scenes like Romulus.
Honestly, take it for Action Pop-Sci with a smidge of contemporary drama and you wont be disappointed.
If you treat it like something that should have thoughtful dialogue or High Quality Sci-fi you'll be disappointed.
It's a bladerunner Alien mashup with the best of both and little of what pioneered the genres.
The imagery and graphical inventiveness is where it shines imo, but it falls short in terms of interactions.
My favourite moment as to why it's just too modern and blegh is one moment where one "woman" is talking to a guy. He mentions his hero was a "Mr"
She scoffs. "Mister" She repeats. End scene. Five episodes in, and there has been no more touching on anything to do with feminism. Just rather inexplicably she scoffs that this male character has a male sports hero, but, if you understand who exactly is scoffing it makes way less sense than it would otherwise, which still makes no sense. That's the level of writing we're working with. I have no issue with exploring that kind of thing, but they don't. It's weird pop drama shit that doesn't seem to belong in world but may appeal to modern viewers. Just be ready for a lot of that stuff.
It's kind of fun if you can turn your brain off. Just more Romulus.
It's also weird and kind of cringey just because of the set up. Not much a spoiler because it's clear in episode one but >!Several of the main cast are adults mimicking the behaviour of children and it's just... Well I imagine it's a challenging ask.!<
Asked my boss (butcher with 30+ years experience) he says it’s an injection site from the cow and the body has tried to defend itself and it’s now full of shite.
Serious question - I'm a lifelong vegetarian so I've no idea, but is this something that like...often happens? You find bits and bobs like this in your meat? Surely butcher error is a common-ish thing so...hmm!
Like yeah sorry, genuinely asking because I have no idea haha.
Its not that common, as butchers aren't taking these bits of meat for aesthetic reasons but for quality.
As you can imagine compared to the actual muscle large blood vessels and sections of connective tissue aren't good to eat, its tough and carry's very little in the way of nutrition or flavour. The whole reason we have cuts and professional butchery is because skilled butchers can remove all the crappy bits while preserving as much of the good stuff as possible.
But because biology is never truly consistent there will always be the odd error, either through a mistake on the part of the butcher or just because that particular animal had a blood vessel in an odd place. You just remove it and carry on with your meal (or like I normally do just throw it in your mouth with the rest and get to chewing for a hot second)
Yeah I see. So this isn't really indicative of quality? It's just a mistake that happens sometimes?
Haha I can't imagine actually! But makes sense...you never see a dish of like...fried artery. And now I'm thinking about it...idk, seems a bit surprising? ALTHOUGH yeah, I guess more 'niche' meats tend to be eaten in areas that are often a bit poorer, and are often done so for necessity because of their nutritional content (although cultural tradition tends to trump this need nowadays I guess. Still!).
This might sound stupid of me, but I never really considered a butcher's job to be...getting rid of stuff like this? I guess I've never really thought about it but mmh. I just kinda figured the cuts of meat and stuff that are usually eaten just don't have these bits in them in the first place, and a butcher's job is to just...organise the carcass I guess? That's funny about inconsistent biology too- makes sense.
Thanks so much for the insight! Appreciated :).
Haha I really rate that you just go for it, fair play mate!
As far as I'm aware stuff this large is generally cut out before it even reaches store shelves, but if you are buying from the supermarket you can expect to occasionally find bits of cartilage and connective tissue, sometimes smaller blood vessels, if you buy birds skin on you can often find bits of feather left in and if you buy fish you can expect to find 1 or 2 small bones in each cut. This is all especially true if you buy cheap.
In conversational language, 'rotting' suggests going bad, moulding, etc.
So your technically right, but most people wouldn't think of reasonably fresh meat as being rotten.
And I mean, I would hate to find an artery in my dinner... but i'm vegetarian. All meat looks a little icky to me.
To someone who eats meat it's probably more like finding an apple seed in a pie.
The important part is there's no particular safety risk for OP.
In the context you used, it gave the impression that the meat is rotten and inedible, hence why I questioned it.
Blood arterys are part of animals, it was just bad butchery which happens. It's not particularly pleasant but it's not an issue as its not going to cause you any harm.
Ok so you accept that it is indeed the rotting flesh of a dead animal? And you accept that this blood artery or whatever it is, is gross? And you accept that you misunderstood/misread my initial comment?
With all that in mind, perhaps you’d like to apologise for being arsey with me for absolutely no reason?
Of course it's rotting, it's exactly the same with fruit and vegetables when you harvest them they start to rot. I was a chef for 20 years so I'm more than aware of how the science works regarding food and it's deteriation.
I'm not apologising because like I said the CONTEXT in which you used the term, was geared to a negative connotation making it appear that said meat was not edible. Which is 100% incorrect.
Maybe you should be clearer in how you word your comments in the future because context is everything when it comes to language.
You’re eating a chunk of a dead animals’s muscle and fat but are grossed out that the animal also had blood vessels? How else do you think it lived long enough to be butchered!
Maybe that's something that people should put a bit more thought into before eating it. As soon as people come across something that reminds them the food they're eating is in fact a chopped up body part they suddenly become all squeamish.
The slaughter of animals is so sheltered and hidden away, I think it should be something everyone sees frequently if they like to eat meat. Have always been curious who would continue to eat meat after seeing it.
Hands up I do eat meat but I'm very familiar with the process through my work.
I completely agree with you. The final product we buy whether it be meat, dairy or eggs is so far removed from the horrific process of obtaining it that people don't think twice about it.
I'm not one to blame people as individuals for continuing to pay for it, the whole thing is setup to keep as much of the process as possible from consumers for the very reason you mentioned, a lot of people would be out off (for good reason) and that impacts profits. You have to actively look for it to know a imals have to endure for someone to eat them or the things that come out of them.
Looks like an abscess, when meat is raw and you cut one it splooges everywhere but considering you’ve cooked the steak (and not the well done) looks likes half solidified instead of slpooging. I’m a senior butchers assistant and am training in butchery so I might be talking out my arse but that what it looks like to me.
98thRedBalloon@reddit
...I'm staying vegetarian.
Annual-Load3869@reddit
Me too lmao shocking an animal has animal parts in it
Jaegerbalm@reddit
Moving to the west from asia, I've noticed a lot of your meats are prepared and processed so that they dont actually look like animals anymore. In the groceries, in restaurants, etc.
Which probably makes it easier for the meat industry to keep mistreating farm animals.
Annual-Load3869@reddit
I’ve been vegetarian most of my life except for a few years of eating chicken when I was like 18. Even as manicured as our meat tends to be it still freaks me out thinking about what it actually is and how cutting up someone’s thigh into particular cuts and then putting it in a plastic box isn’t any different imo.
People can eat what they want but im always surprised when people are grossed out by certain types of meat like horse or dog or even chickens feet like ?? it’s no different I think people just need a certain level of moral superiority and detachment but it doesn’t make sense to me
Pmc06@reddit
This is also something I don’t understand. It’s a huge double standard when I talk to people about their meat eating habits.
I live in a country where pig, cow and chickens are the main meats, but when it’s brought to people’s attention that sheep, horses, dogs, rabbits, pigeons etc are also eaten in other countries, suddenly it’s some sort of affront to eat those animals.
Yet, when I explain other people find eating pigs or cows disgusting, it becomes “Why not?They’re delicious.”
Mind boggling.
GaldrickHammerson@reddit
Chopping up a person's thigh is a little different. Human meat contains chemicals that cause active damage to the brain of animals that eat it. Unfortunately, it's slow acting enough it doesn't serve as a defence mechanism against short-lived species of predators.
Annual-Load3869@reddit
It’s still flesh of a living being is my point. It would feel absurd to see human thigh steak on the shelves which is how it feels to me seeing raw meat idk im not preaching just talking about my perspective
GaldrickHammerson@reddit
It's a prefectly reasonable perspective tbh. But I think it's no less bizarre than cultivating the reproductive organs of plants to flavour ice cream.
We're just a bunch of freaks in general tbh! :D
NapalmsMaster@reddit
Vanilla? I was thinking pistachio at first for some reason….then I felt dumb.
Annual-Load3869@reddit
We are!
flippertyflip@reddit
Do any other animals have such chemicals in their flesh?
Annual-Load3869@reddit
Yes
flippertyflip@reddit
Which ones? Apes?
Annual-Load3869@reddit
Livestock and seafood accumulate microplastics and pollutants too!! Shocking!!
flippertyflip@reddit
Not what I'm asking.
maggiemayfish@reddit
That's only if you eat the brain and is caused by a misfolded protein called a prion. It's the same thing that causes mad cow disease.
You can safely eat as much human meat as you like.
edley@reddit
Long pork's back on the menu boys!
DonBonucci@reddit
Leave me out of this
Impressive-Ad-6310@reddit
Horse is poisonous if not cooked, prepared, or raised right. Dogs are a animal we created through years of breeding of course we would be emotional about that.
Chicken feet is very popular in Asia and Africa. For me ot just doesn't taste of much and not great nutritionally.
The_Blip@reddit
Isn't most meat fairly poisonous if not cooked/prepped/raised right?
Impressive-Ad-6310@reddit
Some more than others.
Annual-Load3869@reddit
Right but they eat dogs in other cultures, cows are sacred in Hinduism. The preparation of a horse is irrelevant to my point ultimately meat is meat
Impressive-Ad-6310@reddit
OK great let's start selling dog in the west then
Annual-Load3869@reddit
Sure do whatever you like
JEDI_Baldwin@reddit
Cognitive dissonance is a powerful thing. Same reason smokers can still smoke cigarettes even though they know it's killing them. The fact that most meats go by a different name from the animal it comes helps too.
SpeedyTurbo@reddit
Chicken? Lamb? Pork? Duck? Turkey?
Like what am I missing here? Beef I guess is the only one
paspa1801@reddit
Ah yes my favourite animal, the majestic pork
WorhummerWoy@reddit
Who could forget that nursery rhyme classic "baa baa black mutton"
arenthor@reddit
The names being different is mostly just an accident of language and class. Animals named after the native Britons working with them, the meat named from the mostly French lords eating it after the Norman invasion.
Annual-Load3869@reddit
Certainly! We’re all guilty of it one way or another
Fli_acnh@reddit
Why not vegan? I feel like the dairy industry is worse tbh, it's what got me to go fully into veganism
Annual-Load3869@reddit
I eat mostly plant based, I don’t have milk or cheese in my house but I do eat eggs for protein reasons. Byproduct industry is horrific and im inclined to agree with you but im not a vegan or 100% plant based so to claim that would be disingenuous.
g0ldcd@reddit
That goes the other way as well. We definitely try to make our meat not look like corpses, by removing the heads etc. But if you say do any anatomy, you really quickly shift from that being somebody's body, to that being an interesting pile of meat (bones, nerves, sacks, stringy bits etc etc) - it's definitely not a person.
I agree it's odd how we treat different animals, but the big one is cannibalism. Most people think it's different killing a person or a chicken - but after they're both dead, it's all just meat. Right?
Annual-Load3869@reddit
That’s very true, it’s all perspective and I find it very fascinating everyone has their own.
I don’t really feel like there is much difference meat is murder yadda yadda but that’s not the world we live in and im accepting of the fact that people want to and feel they need to eat meat.
g0ldcd@reddit
I'm a meat eater and whilst not considering it murder, do find it all very odd. My cat used to bring in mangled animals, and it made me question both how my gorgeous boy seemingly enjoyed torturing other animals, but I then when I had to humanely dispatch them - I then realized that after a lifetime of meat eating, I'd never killed anything larger than a wasp.
Started to think maybe meat eaters should be made to kill, before they could eat meat - but that then gave rise to a vision of middle class families taking their kids into the hills with a bolt-gun, to "pick their own lamb"
Acceptable-Kiwi-4232@reddit
My ex who i still talk to, comes from a family of goat farmers. He lives in Greece in the mountains, so their standard of care for livestock/farm animals is very different. Theyre very cruel over there towards animals and he has seen all of that, even cried to me about watching them cut their guard dogs ears/tails and how he had to slaughter a baby goat himself on more than once occasion. He also watched his grandpa shoot a wild dog for being close to the property. But he still eats meat, it's interesting how people can go through things like that and be so traumatised by it, but continue to contribute to it. I never hold it against him though, he has a lot of respect for animals and a better appreciation for meat and dairy because of the things he has been through/ seen growing up as a little boy
Super_Shallot2351@reddit
Meat-eaters here genuinely think their food isn't processed
Minimum_Rice555@reddit
And they think all kinds of processing is the same. Some meat is actively carcinogenic... Bacon and most cold cuts are treated with nitrite salt to preserve. Vegetarian food being processed is not nearly on the same ball park. Even if you grind something that is already being processed. Most of the time is being pureed, and vitamines like B12 added. That is the big processing in vegan food... Not nearly similar to dipping it in cancer-causing stuff
Annual-Load3869@reddit
Even without nitrates red meat intake is a huge cause of colon cancer
MasterFrost01@reddit
I agree the "I don't want to think about where it comes from" people are stupid, but are you seriously suggesting Asia is better than the west in terms of animal rights?
Minimum_Rice555@reddit
100%... Probably a lot of population would think meat comes from the supermarket and I'm not even joking. If you ever try being vegetarian you realize how few people care what goes into their food. Let's just say even if I stop being vegetarian I will never eat nuggets and sausage for sure.
AwTomorrow@reddit
But vegetarianism and veganism are vastly more common in the west?
barweepninibong@reddit
of course.. even wrap in plastic and call it funny names. works a treat.
largepoggage@reddit
As a chef, I often wonder while chopping up chicken wings how many people would refuse to eat them if they were shown it before being prepared. Not me, I fucking love chicken wings.
Substantial-Song-242@reddit
Me. I rarely eat meat cuz I know hiw disgusting it is before being cooked, and I will only eat it if it's prepared perfectly.
Basically if I'm eating meat, I don't wanna know I'm eating meat.
I eat chicken breast here and there but other than that, I'm good.
largepoggage@reddit
You’d hate haggis, it is delicious though.
daking999@reddit
I had a housemate back in the day who would fill the fridge with chicken breasts (he was doing atkins before keto was a thing). We suggested that buying whole chickens would save him a bunch of money. He admitted he didn't want his animal meat to look like, well, an animal.
Dependent_One6034@reddit
When I was 7 I was given a gooseberry - I bit it, and it had a worm in - I haven't been able to eat gooseberries or grapes since.
evthrowawayverysad@reddit
Find out how much pus can be in milk. You're 90% of the way there, go all the way!
largepoggage@reddit
I’ve heard this before, but pus is just white blood cells. I’d be concerned if there wasn’t some white blood cells in milk. Granted, if they’re higher than average then that means the cow is unhealthy but there still has to be some or infection would run rampant prepasteurisation.
Fordmister@reddit
Fun fact, every dairy at the point of admission tests for both antibiotics and somatic cell count as a critical control point. If there are significant white blood cell counts in the milk it gets picked up at initial testing and refused.
Somatic cells are supposed to be in milk, hell they are supposed to be everywhere, Even in healthy animals. If mammals didn't have white blood cell counts in their milk they'd all die of severe mastitis the second they started lactating. Its one of what I consider to be the really shitty and insipid vegan arguments to go "omg pus in milk" when the legal maximums are significantly below the levels you would expect in cattle with actual udder infections, and are more in line with "the cow might have a cold" Its up there with the dishonesty of the meat industry as arguments go, with the industry often trying to sanitise and hide all the actual biology meanwhile some vegan groups point to perfectly normal white cells counts in cows milk and significantly dramatize what it actually is
And even if it wasn't modern processing techniques mean none of it ends up in the bottle by the end, Pasteurisation would kill whatever was causing the high white cell count regardless and modern filtered milk is quite literally pushed through ceramic filters so small that the actual bacterial and white cells themselves are filtered out with basically only the water and milk proteins getting through.
Unless you are drinking it straight out of the bucket at the farm and deliberately ignoring obvious signs of severe sickness nobody is drinking "pus" in cows milk. There are plenty of solid arguments they do have if they want to come after the dairy industry without resorting to ridiculous alarmist hyperbole based on biological inaccuracy and fear mongering
Minimum_Rice555@reddit
I personally don't trust corporations to do the right thing. Your local small farmer might have a moral compass but some large organization doesn't care at all.
Fordmister@reddit
Good news you don't have to trust corporations or morals. Just the basic self preservation instincts of the senior staff at any given dairy.
The structure of the UK dairy sector means the only two real players left are in a massive competition with each other over quality anyway. But the law and people's careers means "trusting the corp" isn't a relevant problem.
When it comes to food safety law the buck doesn't stop with the heads of corporate, but with the senior leadership on the site that produced that food item. So while the senior heads at say Arla might be more than happy to put profit over people. The site lead at Amsbury isn't going to risk serious prison time to make global happy. Equally the site quality manager knows it's the absolute death of his career if the site starts dumping infected milk here there and everywhere.
The law is set up this way on purpose for that exact reason. It's puts the true responsibility for food safety not with corporate but with the actual factory making it. And because then there's no way to duck that responsibility and site leads are ultimately big fish on their own site but small players in the overall organisation they aren't going to put the head above the parapet for a few thousand litres of lost production every few months.
felix-the-human@reddit
I really hope pus isn’t the missing flavour in oat milk
FourInTheBack@reddit
Milk is the missing flavour in oat milk.
TheThiefMaster@reddit
Oat milk makes great hot chocolate and porridge but tastes a bit odd in tea...
DAAMblueday@reddit
Honestly think it’s just a getting used to it type thing, I love a cup of tea with oat milk now but definitley didn’t when I first stopped drinking dairy.
Kittlebeanfluff@reddit
You're absolutely right. Now, tea with oat or soy milk just tastes like tea to me, it tastes like what it's supposed to taste like. My wife still puts dairy milk in her tea and the smell of the milk is overpowering.
Overlordgaz@reddit
It took a bit of getting used to in tea, but I'm used to the taste now and don't like tea without oat milk now
Vengeful-Sorrow247@reddit
I prefer almond in tea and coffee, much better imo.
What happens is starch gelatinisation. To make it short, hot liquid cooks the starch making it thicker and more gel-like. This process also alters the taste. Think of how different raw oats and water are like compared to porridge.
Oats are very starchy, so in hot chocolate or porridge that starch gelatinisation works great, combines with everything and emulsifes very well.
But in tea, this doesn't work as good. The proteins holding the oat milk together actually become denatured due to the acidity, the heat can also speed up this process. Which can cause curdling quicker. So you'll get that gelatinised starch coating your taste buds instead of it emulsifying with the tea, making everything taste a little off.
Because of this, it's also why oat milk will have more stabilisers than other plant based milks and will curdle in tea and coffee quicker.
katharinelouise@reddit
Unsweetened soya is better in tea imo :)
Spiritual_Weather656@reddit
I'm really glad that pus is the missing flavour, milk has always tasted super gross to me.
evthrowawayverysad@reddit
You can always season it with your own! At least that would be consensual I guess.
SheepishSwan@reddit
There's something disgusting allowed in all food, like a certain amount of rat faeces and insect parts.
Woffingshire@reddit
And it's basically because it would be completely impractical and not really possible to actually remove all of it, like food would need to be made in a quarantine lab.
RowRow1990@reddit
Same.
Posts like this are almost enough to make me go vegan .
a_boy_called_sue@reddit
And if that's not enough you can try crippling emotional guilt and excessive-to-devastating of empathy, with a good dollop of shame, all from a mental health condition. It's ~~killing~~ working for me!
RowRow1990@reddit
Nah you're alright thanks!
SeveralAd2137@reddit
Real, if the idea of meat itself didn’t put me off enough these sort of things are the icing on top
Dragonogard549@reddit
It worries me a reddit post would have been the deciding factor on that either way
MelodicAd2213@reddit
I’m going vegetarian after seeing that
Additional_Tone_2004@reddit
Amen.
richardjohn@reddit
This is actually what turned me vegetarian, huge artery in a steak and ale pie.
I_want_pickles@reddit
Honestly this right here was my first driver towards vegetarianism. 35 something years ago I can still see the artery that turned me.
My brother in Christ if you don’t mind it more power to you but I will take a hard swerve.
Opening-Door4674@reddit
roughly the same timeline for me. School lunch beef casserole, with tubes in it.
"Yeah but it tastes so good" they say.
Yeah, a lot of stuff tastes good, I have options thanks
katharinelouise@reddit
Same, I was always a bit fussy with meat and told my parents I wanted to be vegetarian when I was about 6. We kept eating meat as a family but I distinctly remember seeing a vein in a bit of lamb and that was it. Never ate lamb again.
When I moved out I finally went vegetarian, and am now vegan.
Extra_Actuary8244@reddit
I had the same story and then I also found out ham came from pigs and that was it. Jam sandwiches from then on and I put all the other kids off their ham butties so some parents were a bit annoyed. Still ate little bits of meat here and there and went veggie at 9 and haven’t eaten meat since.
Abquine@reddit
Not sure that's the best plan if you want to avoid eating creepy crawlies 😂
Any-Skill-5128@reddit
Mmm tasty worm
Prudent-Band-1115@reddit
Not good 😜
Anime_Kirby@reddit
That steak so rare it shat itself when you tried grilling it
Extc1233@reddit
animal juice as it had blood and all sorts pumping through it! mmmmmm yummy! also that's why im a vegetarian of 25 years and i dont even wear sandals or nuffin🤣
eagerlift@reddit
Be careful it might grab you
Odd-Goal-7434@reddit
probably a vein if I had to guess, I wouldn't eat it but that's because I'm squeamish, it should do not harm
tattooedmermaid1@reddit
Not me thinking it was a placenta 😂
AstroBlush8715@reddit
Looks like a blood vessel, most likely an artery.
It's not quite been cut correctly by the butcher, but it's not a problem.
Green-Tradition9172@reddit
Not a problem? I would never eat steak again if that came out of one I bought.
AstroBlush8715@reddit
I'm not sure if this is a surprise to you, but animals have blood vessels. You can eat them just like most of the rest of the animal.
The idea that you wouldn't eat a steak ever again simply because a butcher left a blood vessel inside is wild.
It would be like never eating an orange again because you got a piece of pith.
Green-Tradition9172@reddit
I love salmon, natural for a man of jacobean stock. However, I would hesitate to eat one again if I ever discovered a worm growing out of it flesh!!
AstroBlush8715@reddit
Salmon is RIDDLED with worms lol
MyUserNameLeft@reddit
Well a pork pie made me stop eating pork and it looks like I’m done with beef now as well, let me keep chicken and a bit of turkey
SpectralDinosaur@reddit
Pretty safe bet you've eaten plenty of chicken arteries.
MyUserNameLeft@reddit
Yup no doubt I have but seeing one like this and unknowingly eating them are two massively diffent things wouldn’t you agree?
SpectralDinosaur@reddit
No, not really.
AstBraster@reddit
Not really, just pull it out and eat the steak. It's exactly what the butcher already did anyway, they just missed a spot. Maybe don't eat so much meat if you can't face the reality that what you're eating is the chopped up body of an actual living, breathing animal.
MyUserNameLeft@reddit
I already barley eat meat as it is so I’m doing fine there, I understand what an animal goes through going into a slaughter house but I can’t even begin to imagine the terror they must feel in their final moments walking to their death, I also wouldn’t harm a fly and often spend upto 5 minutes trying to get a single fly out my room, stood on a snail or slug? I will feel terrible and my mood will be ruined, but for me to be put off by a big vein in a steak is what unacceptable?
To add your reply is funny trying to imply I have no sympathy for the animal I eat, respect for its life or knowledge about how it’s raised and slaughtered
AstBraster@reddit
It's just odd to say you don't want steak because its vein reminds you of the animal but will carry on eating chicken and turkey as if a dead chicken is any different to a dead cow.
MyUserNameLeft@reddit
Where did I say I don’t want steak because the vein reminds me of an animal?
You can tell I never said that because I look at a bit of meat and think of the animal it once was I don’t need to see a vein to think of an animal?
I said this has put me off steak, at no point did I said “this vein reminds me this steak was once an animal”
And like I said as soon as I eat a bit of chicken and come across something like this or a large blood vessel or a tumour or something then that’ll be the last time I eat chicken
AstBraster@reddit
The part where you say 'I’m done with beef now as well, let me keep chicken and a bit of turkey' under an image of a steak with a vein.
It's an interesting level of ignorance to be in where you're fine eating a dead animal up until the point you're reminded visually of what it is you're eating.
Like, what did you think it was before you saw the blood vessel in a chicken breast.
Every piece of chicken you've eaten has had blood vessels in it, they just get removed before you get it, so you're fine eating dead animals as long as you can live in ignorance and ignore the yucky parts
MyUserNameLeft@reddit
If you read my 2 reply’s above this you’ll see what you’ve just asked I already answered and gave reasons to my choices
spaded131@reddit
You know chicken also has veins...
MyUserNameLeft@reddit
Yup and when I see one like this in chicken I’m eating that will be the last time I eat chicken but until I see it I’m fine
spaded131@reddit
Would rather you just stop now, and that's from.l some who eats meat.
People are way too comfortable with the separation of food and where it comes from
MyUserNameLeft@reddit
Might be true for some people but definitely not me, I just don’t find a vein in my food particularly appetising
spaded131@reddit
But you are eating an animal, ...
MyUserNameLeft@reddit
From the moment I start cooking meat or looking at it on the plate I’m aware it’s an animal…
DualWheeled@reddit
Heaven forbid the dead animals you eat contain parts of dead animals
MyUserNameLeft@reddit
God forbid a person is put off by something other person is not,
SheepishSwan@reddit
I'm sorry to tell you that turkeys and chickens also contain blood vessels.
MyUserNameLeft@reddit
Yup but unknowingly eating them and seeing one like this are two completely different things
Willr2645@reddit
purpleflavouredfrog@reddit
I bet you’re happy that the story about the lady who ordered fried chicken and later discovered that what she thought was mayonnaise was a pus-filled tumor, was not in fact true.
beeurd@reddit
God, is that story still going round? I first heard it like 30 years ago.
curiouspuss@reddit
Why did I have to read this before bed, no spoiler tags, nothing...
beeurd@reddit
I'm confused as to whether you're upset that you read it before bed or upset because the story wasn't true.
Vengeful-Sorrow247@reddit
Your name is almost too on the nose
SkulkingJester@reddit
Man just cut it out and eat it. God forbid meat looks like it’s actually come out of a real animal. Blend that shit into nuggets.
TowJamnEarl@reddit
I thought we were talking about the gold.
Mr-Briggs@reddit
Looks like light reflecting off fat
foxprorawks@reddit
I think it's from gold-fed cattle.
ScottMLD@reddit
Looks blue to me
Mr-Briggs@reddit
A bit like this old thing
youngmaster0527@reddit
Not again :(
Mother-Cantaloupe-57@reddit
It's looks white and gold for the first time. I always thought it was black and blue 😂
psychonumber1@reddit
youre not going to believe this... i never saw blue until now.
ScottMLD@reddit
NickyDeeM@reddit
Have you been watching me?
FormerDonkey4886@reddit
I thought it was the fingers. Maybe it’s a cow hand.
barweepninibong@reddit
same.. “hmm that looks g-ahhhhhh what the fuck is that?!?!”
Jimmy90081@reddit
Either way, that looks like one shiiit steak. Where you get it, Wetherspoons?
Bulky_Map7009@reddit
Looks like a leg 😳
Outrage_Carpenter@reddit
This is what put me off of steak for the better part of a decade.... Looks like im going vegetarian again for a bit after seeing this 🤢
Muted_Damage8501@reddit
Vomit
DAchem96@reddit
It's a boy!!
Radio-No@reddit
I think it's a prop from that new Alien show
Maj-or-Muggle@reddit
As the local vegetarian community representative i welcome you to our ranks ;-)
IntelligentAnybody55@reddit
janner_womble@reddit
Ah yes, the helpful reminder that you're eating the flesh of an animal that used to have blood flowing through it while living life as a confined meal-growing subordinate before it's existence was terminated to feed people who feel queasy when they find these reminders - Bon appetit.
J1m1983@reddit
I like to call these meat tubes
Eesa_@reddit
You can only get a tapeworm from the pork
pbzeppelin1977@reddit
So I can't get tapeworms by eating tapeworms then, just pork?
maggiemayfish@reddit
🎵 you can only get a tapeworm from some pork 🎵
🎵 you can only get a tapeworm from some pork 🎵
🎵 Not chicken, beef, fish or egg 🎵
🎵 Forget it, you won't get a tapeworm🎵
PM_ME_COLOUR_HEX@reddit
I was singing this to ‘if you’re happy and you lnow it clap your hands’ but the third line broke it so I’m not sure what this is to
wh0rederline@reddit
it kind of is
rest in peace sean lock
idris_elbows@reddit
Cysticercus bovis says hello
TheTaintBurglar@reddit
Only pork?
alphahydra@reddit
Nah, you can get it from undercooked beef as well, it's just less common. If I remember correctly, very rare steak and steak tartare are classic vectors (although the risk is lessened if it's been frozen first).
I agree that's not a worm though. You don't get full grown tapeworms in ordinary meat. The adult worms live in the guts of the animal. It's their larvae that burrow out into the muscle tissue and form tiny cysts, so infected meat wouldn't look like this. That's a blood vessel.
Molloway98-@reddit
Think the guy above is quoting a Sean Lock joke from 8 out of 10 cats but informational response nonetheless!
Eesa_@reddit
Google can go and duck itself
jamietronic1@reddit
Oh thats where I left that
qualitycancer@reddit
Its an artery, they can be hefty , today I cut an absolute hosepipe of an artery off some beef shin.
What cut is in picture?
StruggleHot1506@reddit
Looks like ribeye
If you look at the top left corner, it seems to match up with OP's picture, but it's just a guess.
qualitycancer@reddit
I’m leaning more towards rump given its shape. It’s also a bigger muscle
StruggleHot1506@reddit
Yeah, not a bad shout. I figured there's also a higher chance of it being an intercostal artery (which aligns with ribcage) but there's no reason it couldn't be rump
Super_Shallot2351@reddit
Grim
Ecstatic-Alfalfa5159@reddit
Why eat meat if your not aware of what’s in it
Love-Space-166@reddit
Mad cow virus back again!
cocopopped@reddit
You not seen Alien Earth yet?
stoic_salmon@reddit
That is the free toy you get with your steak
Crossy7@reddit
A Vein, it is a bit of meat form an animal, they have blood vessels and everything else in them too :D
nokiunia@reddit
Demon 😈
DowseTheMouse10@reddit
Eat that worm, you little, worm
HonestExtent7745@reddit
Cows sometimes leave remnants of themselves during their larval stage.
HonestExtent7745@reddit
During the second stage of the cows lifecyle, (the first being the incubation stage of course), the bovine gene seeks and destroys, searching for a living host to spread its young.
This process normally takes 2 working days, depending on traffic, and if lucky, a host, such as yourself, is chosen. The larval cortex secreets a special pheromone to check if you're older than 18, and if you're using a VPN. Returning negative the larval cortex withers and dies out of sheer boredom of reading this comment. Returning positive, the larval cortex attaches itself to you, thus turning you into a herdable sweetpea, longed after by yorkshire farmers.
Hetfield.J(1983) Kill Em All. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Lord1Mahaveer@reddit
Hey, I recognise that link.....
HonestExtent7745@reddit
NO YOU DON'T
Lord1Mahaveer@reddit
Nah, I know that link.....
I just have a feeling,,,,
never gonna give you up
thesockpuppetaccount@reddit
Ruminants was right there for the taking
GlorfindelForTheWin@reddit
Lovely
livebunny23@reddit
Larvely
GlorfindelForTheWin@reddit
God that's good
Any_Willingness_9085@reddit
I lolled 😄
BobKickflip@reddit
Larvloly
ljr69@reddit
I read that in a maggotzine once. It’s true!
ocspmoz@reddit
Reading this was the worst thing that's ever happened to me whilst eating a burger.
DrZonino2022@reddit
Not been watching Alien Earth have you…?
Orix_Blue@reddit
I had that same thing happen to me last night in my steak. Horrid to see. It looked like a slimey, snotty Worm but was just a blood vessels that was not taken out by the butcher. Still ate the steak. I'll let you know if that was a bad idea.
Current_Crow_9197@reddit
Botfly larvae.
SimmeringOak@reddit
😂🤣 nah everyone here stick to beige mash with burgers and beans
gazmbuku@reddit
QUATO LIVES!
NakedPatrick@reddit
🤮🤮🤮
One of the many reasons I stopped eating meat.
Other_Fault_8618@reddit
It's a piece of dead flesh what do you expect.its a bit like a head in a nugget box its chicken made to look like something it isn't.this is a bull chopped up to look like a piece of shit.
velvtttt@reddit
that’s it’s weiner
Jay-Seekay@reddit
TIL steak comes from an animal
SupremeFlamer@reddit
I'm a big meat eater but jesus christ this has questioning myself.
Quirky-Tale2893@reddit
It got scared and a lil poo came out
Alone-Inflation4201@reddit
Maybe it's happy to see you?
Tough-Ad-3255@reddit
Right, lovely. On a completely unrelated note, what’s the veggie option today?
Trash_Panda_Leaves@reddit
My guess was a vein or artery. Its a dead body part- a muscle.
Mr-Briggs@reddit
In ground beef?
Puzzleheaded-Lime765@reddit
Its a steak, not ground beef.
iamemu@reddit
All beef is ground beef until the cow has taken flight
Mr-Briggs@reddit
Ohhh, excellent spot, thank you for the correction
Chevey0@reddit
Zenomorph
paulbdouglas@reddit
That is a steak penis, you have been touching it inappropriately and this is the result, a semi-flacid wild steak penis has revealed itself
Low_Dust274@reddit
Peepee?
r0bbyr0b2@reddit
That reminds me, I need to watch Alien Earth tonight.
Nickibee@reddit
Amazing episode, best one yet in my opinion.
Willy__McBilly@reddit
On a scale of Aliens to Alien Resurrection how good/bad is it? I’m so close to being done with the franchise as a whole after the cringe of Romulus, is it really worth the time?
miraculousgloomball@reddit
It's not short on the cringe dialogue that Romulus had plenty of, but it also has plenty of cool scenes like Romulus.
Honestly, take it for Action Pop-Sci with a smidge of contemporary drama and you wont be disappointed.
If you treat it like something that should have thoughtful dialogue or High Quality Sci-fi you'll be disappointed.
It's a bladerunner Alien mashup with the best of both and little of what pioneered the genres.
The imagery and graphical inventiveness is where it shines imo, but it falls short in terms of interactions.
My favourite moment as to why it's just too modern and blegh is one moment where one "woman" is talking to a guy. He mentions his hero was a "Mr"
She scoffs. "Mister" She repeats. End scene. Five episodes in, and there has been no more touching on anything to do with feminism. Just rather inexplicably she scoffs that this male character has a male sports hero, but, if you understand who exactly is scoffing it makes way less sense than it would otherwise, which still makes no sense. That's the level of writing we're working with. I have no issue with exploring that kind of thing, but they don't. It's weird pop drama shit that doesn't seem to belong in world but may appeal to modern viewers. Just be ready for a lot of that stuff.
It's kind of fun if you can turn your brain off. Just more Romulus.
It's also weird and kind of cringey just because of the set up. Not much a spoiler because it's clear in episode one but >!Several of the main cast are adults mimicking the behaviour of children and it's just... Well I imagine it's a challenging ask.!<
Nickibee@reddit
Yep, it’s awesome, true to the franchise. Creepy and full of a few new monsters that are probably worse than our Alien!
Dry_Run9442@reddit
Whoo hoo thanks for reminding me. Just finishing my night shift and will watch as soon as im home.
FogduckemonGo@reddit
That reminds me too. Though this reminds me more of The Thing.
tacticall0tion@reddit
That's the secret meat straw
2am_goblin_king@reddit
Asked my boss (butcher with 30+ years experience) he says it’s an injection site from the cow and the body has tried to defend itself and it’s now full of shite.
LeChuckinator@reddit
Puss
therealJaspr@reddit
Cordyceps.....here we go
typeXYZ@reddit
NSFW
divinescu@reddit
stuffcrow@reddit
Oh my GOD that's so horrible haha.
Serious question - I'm a lifelong vegetarian so I've no idea, but is this something that like...often happens? You find bits and bobs like this in your meat? Surely butcher error is a common-ish thing so...hmm!
Like yeah sorry, genuinely asking because I have no idea haha.
Fordmister@reddit
Its not that common, as butchers aren't taking these bits of meat for aesthetic reasons but for quality.
As you can imagine compared to the actual muscle large blood vessels and sections of connective tissue aren't good to eat, its tough and carry's very little in the way of nutrition or flavour. The whole reason we have cuts and professional butchery is because skilled butchers can remove all the crappy bits while preserving as much of the good stuff as possible.
But because biology is never truly consistent there will always be the odd error, either through a mistake on the part of the butcher or just because that particular animal had a blood vessel in an odd place. You just remove it and carry on with your meal (or like I normally do just throw it in your mouth with the rest and get to chewing for a hot second)
stuffcrow@reddit
Yeah I see. So this isn't really indicative of quality? It's just a mistake that happens sometimes?
Haha I can't imagine actually! But makes sense...you never see a dish of like...fried artery. And now I'm thinking about it...idk, seems a bit surprising? ALTHOUGH yeah, I guess more 'niche' meats tend to be eaten in areas that are often a bit poorer, and are often done so for necessity because of their nutritional content (although cultural tradition tends to trump this need nowadays I guess. Still!).
This might sound stupid of me, but I never really considered a butcher's job to be...getting rid of stuff like this? I guess I've never really thought about it but mmh. I just kinda figured the cuts of meat and stuff that are usually eaten just don't have these bits in them in the first place, and a butcher's job is to just...organise the carcass I guess? That's funny about inconsistent biology too- makes sense.
Thanks so much for the insight! Appreciated :).
Haha I really rate that you just go for it, fair play mate!
-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-@reddit
As far as I'm aware stuff this large is generally cut out before it even reaches store shelves, but if you are buying from the supermarket you can expect to occasionally find bits of cartilage and connective tissue, sometimes smaller blood vessels, if you buy birds skin on you can often find bits of feather left in and if you buy fish you can expect to find 1 or 2 small bones in each cut. This is all especially true if you buy cheap.
stuffcrow@reddit
Really interesting! Yeah makes sense- guess more expensive bits will be hand-butchered which would make it easier to catch things like this.
I'm aware of bits of cartilage and that- that'll be the chewy bits and bobs right? But yeah, vessels and veins and that...very freaky haha.
Appreciate you taking the time to reply!! Thanks also for not being a dick:).
ihatepeopleandyoutoo@reddit
I love meat but this is the type of sh*t that makes me want become vegan each time
IntroductionFit5346@reddit
Rat's tail
Billthegifter@reddit
Well...Have you watched the new Alien series?
MFS2020HYPE@reddit
Looks like a parasitic worm to me, possibly a tapeworm.
mycarisafooked@reddit
Meat noodle
miemcc@reddit
After watching the latest episode of Alien Earth, don't drink the water...
Apart_Reindeer_528@reddit
Idk but I'm completely freaked out, never seen anything like that in all my years of being a carnivore
VaxineUK@reddit
Your mum weheyyyyyyy
simonfarnaby@reddit
Cum
bowieisdeaf@reddit
That's the steaks dih
eurydice88@reddit
I love that you are asking the whole of the UK about your steak
msma46@reddit
We used to have liver served like that for school lunch. We called it “meat with tubes”.
artemjs5@reddit
It's just michael, don't mind him
just_someone_57857@reddit
It’s a boy! Yay!
Pircster38@reddit
Harry Monk 🤓
SonofLung@reddit
Stop eating meat thats disgusting
b3gbie@reddit
Take my strong hand
ResplendentBear@reddit
Shai-Hulud!
Plop-plop-fizz@reddit
Jai Ho
Ace_LN@reddit
🤣 that came out of nowhere just like Lisan Al Ghaib in movie 🤣
Untamed_Meerkat@reddit
deformedfishface@reddit
Blessed be the maker.
CuthbertDibbleNGrub@reddit
Would that make him Lisan Al Gaib?
Mother-Cantaloupe-57@reddit
The conscience of murder? 🤷🏻♀️
holshgreineken@reddit
You ever watched The Thing
LayerComprehensive21@reddit
Honestly this shit nearly made me vegetarian.
Relevant_Cold_6727@reddit
That is a prolapsed anus cavity.
xcxmon@reddit
You’re eating the rotting flesh of a dead animal, it could be all sorts of gross stuff 🤢
-AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-@reddit
Any particular reason you chose to describe it like that? Or did you just want a quick and easy path to shock factor
LordAxalon110@reddit
It's not rotting flesh and what on earth possessed you to I think it was?
Its a blood artery.
xcxmon@reddit
…because it quite literally is…? Flesh begins to rot immediately after death.
And you don’t think finding a blood artery in your dinner is gross?
Ro_designs@reddit
In conversational language, 'rotting' suggests going bad, moulding, etc.
So your technically right, but most people wouldn't think of reasonably fresh meat as being rotten.
And I mean, I would hate to find an artery in my dinner... but i'm vegetarian. All meat looks a little icky to me. To someone who eats meat it's probably more like finding an apple seed in a pie.
The important part is there's no particular safety risk for OP.
LordAxalon110@reddit
In the context you used, it gave the impression that the meat is rotten and inedible, hence why I questioned it.
Blood arterys are part of animals, it was just bad butchery which happens. It's not particularly pleasant but it's not an issue as its not going to cause you any harm.
xcxmon@reddit
Ok so you accept that it is indeed the rotting flesh of a dead animal? And you accept that this blood artery or whatever it is, is gross? And you accept that you misunderstood/misread my initial comment?
With all that in mind, perhaps you’d like to apologise for being arsey with me for absolutely no reason?
LordAxalon110@reddit
Of course it's rotting, it's exactly the same with fruit and vegetables when you harvest them they start to rot. I was a chef for 20 years so I'm more than aware of how the science works regarding food and it's deteriation.
I'm not apologising because like I said the CONTEXT in which you used the term, was geared to a negative connotation making it appear that said meat was not edible. Which is 100% incorrect.
Maybe you should be clearer in how you word your comments in the future because context is everything when it comes to language.
Leather-Reward-7020@reddit
Defo push
RachaelBlonde@reddit
Don’t know but I sure as hell would not be finishing it 🤣🤮
Nice_Back_9977@reddit
You’re eating a chunk of a dead animals’s muscle and fat but are grossed out that the animal also had blood vessels? How else do you think it lived long enough to be butchered!
Mr-Briggs@reddit
Burgers are made from minced meat, so this could be a worm
turkishhousefan@reddit
It looks fucking gross whereas the rest of it doesn't to most people.
Kittlebeanfluff@reddit
Maybe that's something that people should put a bit more thought into before eating it. As soon as people come across something that reminds them the food they're eating is in fact a chopped up body part they suddenly become all squeamish.
DP-King@reddit
The slaughter of animals is so sheltered and hidden away, I think it should be something everyone sees frequently if they like to eat meat. Have always been curious who would continue to eat meat after seeing it.
Hands up I do eat meat but I'm very familiar with the process through my work.
Kittlebeanfluff@reddit
I completely agree with you. The final product we buy whether it be meat, dairy or eggs is so far removed from the horrific process of obtaining it that people don't think twice about it.
I'm not one to blame people as individuals for continuing to pay for it, the whole thing is setup to keep as much of the process as possible from consumers for the very reason you mentioned, a lot of people would be out off (for good reason) and that impacts profits. You have to actively look for it to know a imals have to endure for someone to eat them or the things that come out of them.
lil-hazza@reddit
People who eat animals when the animal they're eating has bits of animal in it 🤢😡
Stovepipe-Guy@reddit
Gold ?
Mr-Briggs@reddit
Burgers are made from mince meat? There should not be a vessel like that in there.
I recommend dissection
Meadmug@reddit
That steak is just happy to see you mate
Acrobatic_Yogurt_327@reddit
I don’t know but I would advise against eating it…
Cobbdouglas55@reddit
Do I really want to read the answers?
_jas_sd@reddit
I would discard it. No way I'm eating that.
Saby10@reddit
It’s winky
Seth44017@reddit
Bloody hell
Significant_Bison306@reddit
That's the steaks reproductive organs, also known as the beepis.
AggressiveRhubarb805@reddit
My meat has veins too.... Ok I'll see myself out the door....
futtball22@reddit
Its my pinky finger that I lost a while ago
LimpCustomer4281@reddit
Does it taste good?
notcomingback15@reddit
Go vegan 👍
OOBExperience@reddit
Gross
ShutItYouSlice@reddit
If its grown legs and a head id say its a mini me the thing got a flame thrower 🔥🤗
RewardReasonable3163@reddit
It the steaks penis
KnOcKdOfF@reddit
A big bit of nope
HoLLoWpOiNt_80@reddit
It'll be a blood vessel, nothing wrong with it. I'm a 'cut its horns off, wipe its bum and give it a cuddle to put a little heat in it' kinda guy.
DeathblowMateria@reddit
Miquella by the looks of it
TheWidowmaker246@reddit
Just eat it
Ashbuck200@reddit
This is enough to put me off meat forever🤮🤮
behemuffin@reddit
Gold!
RKips@reddit
T. Ocellus
dazlees@reddit
If the steak is rare you could use it like a straw .... that's the kinda shit they do in fancy restaurants.
cardiffman100@reddit
Almost certainly a blood vessel. Eat it!
WVA1999@reddit
What about the pile of GOLD on your plate???
Purple-Spot735@reddit
Ew, is that a parasite? Meat is so gross if you think about it.
LordAxalon110@reddit
No it's just an artery. Nout wrong with meat if people educated themselves about it.
Purple-Spot735@reddit
Ok. Thank you for your response.
PazzaOnXTC@reddit
probably an artery. Not sure if its okay to eat or not, looks kinda fatty/chewy so id cut it out
Exp3r1mentAL@reddit
Can the redditors tag NSFW before they reply post more food horror stories please.. feckin sleep is gone
Physical-Cheesecake@reddit
According to Sean Lock, not a tapeworm.
k987654321@reddit
That’s deadpools mini arm
Leather-Art-1823@reddit
the one that’s holding the apple? 😂😂
Stuspawton@reddit
Just an artery, nothing major to worry about
CMDRZapedzki@reddit
Baby Cthulu.
Isahar47@reddit
The rest of the living creature within it 😆😆😆
Rich-Lychee-8589@reddit
OK...I've been thinking of going vegetarian for a while now...think this pic might just be the push i needed
SameheadMcKenzie@reddit
Steak worm
Puzzleheaded_Turn887@reddit
JFC shouldn’t this be NSFW??? 🤢
Lazer_beak@reddit
no idea but that would halt me my in tracks eating wise if I saw it
No-Reserve-23865@reddit
The whole thing reminds me of an axolotl.
Evening_Common2824@reddit
A nerve or blood vessel possibly. The steak has shrunk the thing, hasn't...
Fioreborn@reddit
The reason I don't eat steak
Morph_The_Merciless@reddit
It's just happy to see you! 🤣🤣
kXPG3@reddit
~~PICKLE~~ STEAK RICK
OnlymyOP@reddit
Yikes ... even if it's bad butchery, I would still had sent that back
blamejaneshui@reddit
Omg
8Ace8Ace@reddit
Tapeworm?
SnooDonuts6494@reddit
Artery or vein.
Fine, not a problem.
CaptainWaggett@reddit
U better not watch this week’s episode of Alien Earth
Ricky_Martins_Vagina@reddit
Suck it and find out
Due-Philosophy1139@reddit
You’ve struck AI gold.
Boogaaa@reddit
pinkyandthebrain-ama@reddit
Likely a blood vessel...
Inside_Log_6851@reddit
Whats the matter kid... you never had cow tentacle before?
2am_goblin_king@reddit
Looks like an abscess, when meat is raw and you cut one it splooges everywhere but considering you’ve cooked the steak (and not the well done) looks likes half solidified instead of slpooging. I’m a senior butchers assistant and am training in butchery so I might be talking out my arse but that what it looks like to me.
i_am_simple_bob@reddit
It's something I wouldn't eat.
essexboy1976@reddit
You know those giant worms from Dune? That's a baby one
_Rookwood_@reddit
lisan al gaib!!!
sjurvival@reddit
That's where you enter the Shadow of the Erdtree DLC.
Far-Radio856@reddit
Steak cocktail?
BadAssOnFireBoss@reddit
Wrap it in plastic and freeze it for evidence.
Yellowscrunchy@reddit
Don't watch Alien Earth
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Gullible_Solution@reddit
Coming out of my steak and I'm doing just fine
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Relevant_Natural3471@reddit
Gotta, gotta be edible because I want it all
Internal-Dark-6438@reddit
It started out with a chip how did it end up like this?
pdp76@reddit
Now my stomach is sick !
Low-Temperature-1664@reddit
And I'm putting in flab
Giant_Gaystacks@reddit
It was only a corpse, it was only a corpse.
silentv0ices@reddit
That goes down your throat and impregnates you with a cow egg if you eat is.
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SlightlyIncandescent@reddit
Do you have throat cancer and the cancer came out of your throat to eat the steak?
Ok-Flight-7156@reddit
Is that you, Karl?
GravyGeneral@reddit
Cǒte De Cock
Sinister_Grape@reddit
🤢
Plus_Gazelle_6828@reddit
Looks absolutely rank either way
tykeoldboy@reddit
Have you watched the movie Aliens?
CuriousThylacine@reddit
It's just pleased to see you.
Eggtastico@reddit
A complaint to the place of purchase!
andiisimone@reddit
Don’t worry, it’s just saying hello!
Alert-Performance199@reddit
It's the worms willy
dopeycrow@reddit
Ah yes the rare birthing of diglet
WeSavedLives@reddit
Sinew
NefariousnessSea1118@reddit
I think you'll find it's his stake now.
TrueSolid611@reddit
I can’t tell you. Did you eat it though?
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