ZOMG! NOT YOU TOO, BACON!

[Balrog]

I had some kind of cooked eel and I remember thinking it tasted like roast beef. It's been a while since I had it though.

Sounds electrifying!

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

I've had eel quite often on sushi. It's like a robust oily fish.

We eat kangaroo several times a week. I've tried emu and I would buy that if it was sold in supermarkets like the roo. Eaten plenty of venison and goat which are both nice but again not readily available.

 

[Unicron]

I like eel rolls myself, though I rarely buy any sashami bundled with sushi. I don't eat a lot of raw stuff.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

The eel I've had on sushi is cooked.

 

[The Dominion]

Yeah, I do get eel in sushi every now and then but I can't discern the taste as well as when I had it by itself.

 

[TEACAKE'S PLEATHER DOME]

Well the one I have the eel is a huge eel slab on top of the rice and nori.

Looks like this:

 

[RobertVA]

Eh.... I don't like arguments like that.

Sure everyone dies and death is inevitable but that doesn't mean we should allow toxins and dangerous things to be out there, there's a reason why we control what goes into the food and water supply, the air and even construct things out of.

If we played a "everyone dies" game then, fuck it, why have any rules at all. Dumb toxins into the water stream, stuff buildings full of asbestos, let the mercury and lead flow free! Sure, people will have a maximum life-span of about 37, but everyone dies, right?

We should do what we can to curb dangerous habits and keep dangerous materials out of the contact of people, hence things like asbestos, mercury, lead and other toxins being kept out of the food/water supply as much as possible.

What we need to do is keep things reasonable. Humans are omnivores and meat is a necessary part of our diet and it seems like this study they did didn't exactly have the tightest of parameters and control to it. A majority of the people in the Western World eat meat and life spans for people are ever increasing and the incidences of cancers and other conditions this study claims to relate to meat is comparatively small. All that's been "found" is two things happening and a line attempted being drawn to it.

Until it's found that eating meat causes severe medical problems 100% of the time there's nothing to worry about. It's not like cigarettes where study, after study, after study has found that smoking, 100% of the time, causes some level of problems. They can be minor or severe given any number of factors from length of use and frequency of use but smoking always causes medical problems. Should it be outlawed and banned? No. People should be free to use it if they want.

There's been no evidence that eating meat causes medical problems 100% of the time because if that was the case 96% of the American population would have cancer and other medical problems. Instead all that's been found is for some people in this dubious study ate meat and got some fairly common medical problems... maybe.

Call me when correlation meets causation.

I'm more concerned about the bullets people selling banned substances are shooting than the health problems caused by actually consuming the substances. For more than half a century nobody has ever forced me to inject, inhale or ingest any substance generally regarded as unhealthy (legal or illegal). Some say that we are engaged in a war on drugs, but I believe that war has turned our streets into a war zone. When was the last time you heard of two alcohol dealers getting into a gun fight? Probably a report about events that occurred during America's miserable failure of a war on drunkenness nearly a century ago. If a beer/wine retailer gets into a dispute with their wholesaler they go to court like other civilized people. Because it would involve admitting their illegal activities people distributing illegal drugs have to settle their differences with fists, knives or gunfire with innocent bystanders having to worry about the stray shots.