Nostr Web Client

I've always heard that if an animal is stressed before it dies, the meat doesn't taste as good. But among the few wiltshire sheep that I have accidently killed poorly, who unfortunately suffered a bit before I could get them properly killed, actually tasted better than anything I've ever tasted. I'm sad to think that animals might want other animals to suffer a bit in order to ramp up the flavor... terrible thing, and not something vegans are going to want to hear.

I've also heard that older animals don't taste as good. But I've found that sheep that are about 3 years old taste the best -- not tough yet, and full of flavor. Too old and they get tough. "Lamb" (up to 1 year old) may be the most tender, but the flavour hasn't developed enough yet.

Reply to this note

Please Login to reply.

Discussion

nobody 2y ago

You need help!

Andrej designSats 2y ago

Did you do double blinded test? If not, I dont believe neither side.

Maybe its just a vegan ezo mythology that meat gets somehow compromised by bad death.

Mike Dilger ☑️ 2y ago

I agree without a double-blinded test you can't know, and science would require multiple tests.. but that would be unethical. I expected it to taste bad, as did the other guy who took some home. I noted how good it tasted, and then later when we met again he, without prompting, said it was the best lamb he ever had. So that is not double-blind, but better than just my word on it.

I always heard it was the adrenaline, that it tainted the meat, made it taste bad. Arbitoirs here talk about how they use techniques to lower the stress on the animal first, even to the degree of killing them in a dark room. So I was really suprised.

Andrej designSats 2y ago

Yes. Obviously if it was as you say and it were to be better tasting you wouldnt torture them.

It might be a useful lie. Similar to "all guns are always loaded". To prevent people from experimenting with torture

optout 2y ago

There is a -- probably unfounded and definitely not based on experimentation -- commonsense saying that cats play with their pray before killing & eating them so that they taste better. I even heard logic that blood sugar goes up and thus they taste sweeter, but I think that's bullshit.

The reason I'm skeptic is that I see no evolutionary benefit from doing an action to change the taste of sg, rather, taste has evolved to improve the selection of what to eat, and derive evolutionary advantage from that. I doubt there is nutritional difference between a stressed out and normal version of the same prey.

optout 2y ago

BTW, respect for doing the whole cycle of raising an animal, caring for it, and when the time comes, killing, processing, cooking and eating.

When I was kid occasionally we had to buy live chickens, although living in a big city, but there was food shortage. But other than that I'm closer to the 'food comes packed from the store' crowd.

Mike Dilger ☑️ 2y ago

PLEASE DON'T TORTURE ANIMALS to get tasty meat. I didn't think that anybody would use this knowledge to do so, but now I think maybe I should have kept my mouth shut.

I will always attempt the cleanest quickest most painless stress-free kill possible. The difference in flavor isn't so significant that I would wish for another soul to suffer. That meat would have to taste ridiculously orgasmic, and even then I can't bear to wish suffering on another conscious life form.

Original But Not 2y ago

Oh I did put vegan steak out to defrost wtf……..guess what I’d say if they are murdered, that is a form of suffering

Original But Not 2y ago

I’d say bring back cannibalism see how people like it but I bet they taste boring like cardboard