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Before I went on CNN Newsroom to discuss Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg's decision to consume only animals he'd personally slaughtered, I called chef Chris Cosentino. He's been cooking and serving food this way for most of his career, and while he believes that Zuckerberg is doing the right thing - and has a great partner in chef Jesse Cool - he's slightly baffled that such attention is being paid to a movement that's not new in the slightest. Says Cosentino, "It's weird that it took a 27-year-old billionaire to get a spotlight shone on something chefs and grandmothers have been doing for centuries. But it's good that people are talking about it." |
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gaming legends tell that, when a man faces down his prey eyeball to eyeball, some quanta information is shared between the two, then reflected upon by the man, thereby learning a profound lesson on the nature of life.
that or the nutcase of the thiev fin juice.
Uggg! me take dead beast back to MAN CAVE, Me and friends eat beast raw. Then post on You Tube Grunt!!!!!!
perfect.
I grow my vegetables and eat them too!
I would kill an animal to eat and I would not be squeamish. If one lives in the city or suburbs there are rules against killing any animals except if you have the poor luck of hitting one with one's car. I agree with Davisnet – why should I do it when it's already been killed and cleaned for me? Are we supposed to feel guilty for being omnivores?
Had to answer OTHER since the answers don't match the question. I WOULD (not could) kill an animal if I had to but do not plan on it since it is so readily available at the local Supermarket. Just the same as how I do not purify my own water or refine my own natural gas...
Henry David Thoreau said in Walden that he killed his own meat but found that it was too messy. He might have meant it figurativly and literally. Nothing will make you a non-meat eater any faster, so, it's a good thing. Thomas Friedman said in his book, Hot, Flat and Crowded, that eating red meat, especially, has to go the way of the gas-guzzler and the McMansions if we Earthlings have a sustainable future.
it's so funny...the only animal i could kill for food is a human because humans are overpopulated and destroying the planet. but meat is disgusting. i do suggest that those who want to kill to eat gore, should do what is ethical and chop their own limbs off and eat them because really nobody has a right to snuff out the life of another. or easier would be to go to morgues and cemetaries and get the corpses and bodies there without any violence or killing. there is PLENTY of artery clogging protien sitting in those caskets underground not to mention, you are spared the vile act of killing an innocent. also it just seems to me that you should kill yourself and offer your meat to others. at least there is nobility in that. likewise preying on innocent defenseless animals just to eat a hamburger is cowardice in the way that a child molestor/rapist/killer is a coward.
"Life isn't Disney bull [manure] where lions, pigs, and meerkats come together and sing songs." – Penn Jillette
Your utopia doesn't exist in nature; it's fiction. For anything to live, even plants, something else must die.
Humans are omnivores; our bodies function best on a diet that includes both animal and plant sources of food.
You're so clueless, Missy. A wild carnivore would be more than happy to snuff out your life for food. Only in today's over protective society could someone like you manage to even SURVIVE long enough to reach adulthood and look down on the meateaters. That's a good thing, don't get me wrong. But I agree with abbyful. This isn't Disneyland ... it's the jungle baby. Eat or be eaten.
I personally don't kill the animals I eat. There is no reason for me to. I do not have the means, time or desire to raise the animals myself and regulate their diet to ensure certain standards, so why should I slaughter someone else's animal? I also do not desire to spend my time that way. I accept that my food may be of slightly lower quality(Believe me, there is a difference between ham and pig your buddies slaughtered that day. I accept this because of the convenience offered by mass production. I can simply walk to the store and purchase my meat of choice.
For those who will say I can't stomach it, you are wrong. I have killed people (yes, in war, I am not a mass murderer). It is somewhat different between people and animals, however, all lives end. Even if we made everyone kill their own meat, things would eventually return to largely same state they are in. People can get used to anything – blood, guts, mortar attacks and smelly water. We are animals, just with higher capacity brain functions than most. But we are still just animals.
sure and you can stomach killing humans too...BUT can you stomach it if some one kills YOU??? that is the question. do you still like meat when you are the menu? idiotic. killing is great until you're the one getting killed.
I used to live on a hobby farm (26 acres). We raised chickens, pigs, turkeys. I thought I should be able to kill my own meat to eat it. Survived butchering 2 chickens. But it was awful. So I decided I would give my animals a really good life. They have one bad day (transporting to the butcher). Then I pick them up as meat in a package. That was my compromise.
Now I work FT, and I buy from local organic and free-range farmers.
that's really sick. i suppose you'd treat your dog this way. what's the difference?...you figured out killing is wretched but instead of learning from that experience, you screwed up and shoved the wretched killing off onto someone else. maybe you have to be killed and eaten to learn that the reason the killing sucked is because it was WRONG. duh.
It would be much more impressive if he raised the animals he ate. Sport killing is wrong unless you eat what you kill.
Maybe Mark Z. is afraid of being poisoned? Like despot kings in the old days....
Vegan!
for the thrill i guess, they're going to die anyway provides the moral clearance to not experience guilt but only primal senses that are engrossed when directly taking the life of your food source. like when you pull fruit from a tree or veggies from your garden, they just taste better.
not unless the pig has a knife too...so it's a fair fight;-)
You've nhever seen a Boar have you?
I chose other. I'm not against eating meat or killing animals for food. But I am against desacrating the animal by the way's we heartlessly treat them as they are raised. I believe we should honor the animals life by using every bit of it's body that we can (an old native-american concept). I love meat but I think if people had to kill their own food alot more people would be vegetarian.
This is just stupid! How about only driving cars you've built yourself?
More proof that money doesn't make you a smart person and success in this country is more about greed and ambition than about truly producing something of value.
He's a freaking idiot with dollar signs for a soul.
Well in his case what you call "success" was do to a novel idea that was well recieved by a very large proportion of internet users. Just because you struggle and others have financial security is not reason to justify crucifying them because you consider this or that immoral. I doubt you are the most moral person in the world. And just to let you know, I'm homeless and am using a library computer to type this. I sleep on cardboard at night (on grass for softness of course). I do not feel that this man is dumb or greedy any more than the local Kroger store manager or the crooked cornerstore owner down the street. No more than the people that run the municipal government in my local area or, dare i say it, the police that 'protect' the innocent and defenseless in our area. We all have our problems and I guarantee you have just as much as this guy.
People dont respect their food anymore, especially children. If everyone spent just one day as a hunter/gatherer it could have a profound long term effect on how we live. As an avid fisherman I find that the sweatest fish is one you've caught cleaned and prepared yourself. On time on a weekend fishing trip I forgot to put the sandwhiches I had prepared in the cooler. For 3 days we had nothing to eat but what we could find or catch. I found some wild onions but we didnt catch any fish until late afternoon on the second day. That trout was the best trout I had ever had in my entire life.
Billionaire or not he operates the most bug ridden website on the web, its functionality is a joke, its script can be bought all over..actually even better and he is no genius....he just had a cult following like Craiglist did...same scenario
Some guy goes to Ol' Macdonalds farm and shoots some barnyard animals. WHAT A LOSER! Of course, he's a rich loser and people gravitate towards the rich. Some things never change.
Thank God, I don't do social networks. The only thing about this article that bugs me is that well known people such as this one have a lot of influence on the young generation and the message he spreads is not educational. I hope we won't see young children running around the neighborhood killing cats and dogs to BBQ them in the backyard. I hope they are smarter than that.
Do you think that kids raised on farms or by hunters go around killing dogs and cats to eat? No.
I grew up on a farm and in a farming/ranching community. Most people also hunt. Kids are taught about where their food comes from and to respect it. Eggs come from chickens, beef comes from cows, etc., versus many kids nowadays think food just comes "from the grocery store".
Americans need to get back in touch with where their food comes from. Most Americans have no clue about farming and raching, whether it be raising crops or livestock. (And ironically the PETA-screamers and vegans are some of the worse about this; they only know the extremely slanted view PETA has shown them).
I only eat pus.sy..
Please explain further. Many of us don't understand. Do you mean Pus.sy...cats? Not sure if that is legal in this country.
A little more detail, please.
I will delete my facebook account and join Path after I post this
At least wild animals have a fighting chance to get away from hunters, not so caged/fenced animals that live in squalor and have no way out. If they don't measure up for market they are piled up like so much garbage, no honor in their death! We could all use a lesson from the Native Americans who blessed the spirit of the animal after killing it, using every bit of it with no waste and respecting the earth they lived on!
I don't believe it's a pr stunt at all; I kinda say kudos to him. It's easy to go to a grocery store and buy meat all nicely pre-packaged. It keeps you totally removed from the reality of killing an animal and all it involves. It also keeps you ignorant of that animal's reality while it was grown in farm factories in mostly inhumane conditions. I doubt that many of you here (myself included) would eat meat if you had to kill it...think about it. I doubt that anyone with billions needs a "publicity stunt", but if his notoriety brings focus on the realities of the animals we consume, I say YAY!
This has probably been said already but those of us who eat meat should not be commenting negatively. Just because YOU don't do the killing does not make you better than a hunter. BTW, before you vegetarians start weighing in with the 'Holier than Thou" comment. We all kill to have had killed living things to eat. Just because it doesn't have a face you can recognize nor make a sound does not mean it does not feel pain. Eating no meat does not make anyone more ethical (even PETA kills).
It is sad to see a fellow Jew talking about killing and eating pork. You don't have to be religious to respect your tradition and at least not be public about it.
Its "Shown" not "Shone". Typo 1st paragraph, last sentence.
Jerome – join me in eating my ice-milk and range-free fig newtons... yummm.
These people are ALL crazy. I grew up poor, a city kid in a large famliy, with many days with no food, least of all meat. What some billionarie does for 'kicks' or to 'feed' his over-inflated ego, is HIS problem, HIS business. We can't all hunt, fish or live on a farm and raise our food. Some of us live in the REAL world of work, pay bills and try to keep ahead of the 'tax man'. What really maters is we live in a country where we can hunt for our food or not – our choice and no one has the right to take that away from us. Do as you need to, to ease your own conscience. I shop where my 'budget' allows me to shop. I eat meat as I can afford to. To each his own. Besides, does it really matter anyway? Do you think the supermarkets are going out of business anytime soon? There is a reason why we need them and use them. Because feeding our families, anyway we can, and keeping our jobs means we are living the best life we can, for as long as we can. God bless us all. [that outa anger a few liberal-athiest-vegans!]
Holy shinikies batman... As a liberal meat-eating atheist, I laugh at you, HARD. Bahahahhaha, idiot.
I do enjoy fishing and enjoy eating fish.
Sorry i dont believe anything that man says he built his wealth on other poeple ideas the movie explain s that and what was done with twins he cheat out of there money i really dont think he would care about how a animal was killed when he dose not have a basic thing like being honest in his bones
Huh!?! Ever hear of punctuation?
Oh! Of course! It was in a movie so that must be exactly how it all went down. Thanks for pointing that out....
This guy Mark is a wanna be. I believe he is just after PR and his own ego. Make a big enough splash or say something as off the wall shocking to have people talk about, did you hear what the Facebook CEO said.
Hey Mark, look buddy, if it were not for Veterans you'd never have the chance to do and say do the things you you do. Now if you were man enough to have joined the military and branch of the military. Then gone out to have to kill food to survive, okay, then you have a valid point in hunting for food just to survive. Please leave your ego at the front door. You are not that impressive. Try doing some volunteer work at a VA Hospital or working with Habitat for Humanity. Then talk about those things.
Mark has done far more for humanity through donations then you will ever be able to do. Even if you quit your job tomorrow, volunteered every day and every night, you still wouldn't come close to matching his contributions. So, go sit in your corner.
Where da Buffalo at?
Why wouldn't he? He is trying to be more self-sufficient. MZ truly is a fascinating guy and i'm not even a FB user.
So much hate for vegetarians. Meat eaters are a lot like the far right when it comes to the topic of food; They always bemoan how persecuted they are, but you never actually see any of it. I've met way more meat eaters that take issue with people that don't eat meat, than vegetarians who take issue with people that do. And good for Mark Zuckerberg. If I had his resources I'd grow all of my food myself. Industrial farming and meat production is legitimately poisoning our country and all anyone in the media ever wants to talk about is how strange the people are who alter their diets accordingly.
I don't hate vegans, I find they are rather tasty. Most need a long slow stewing though to cook out that nasty attitude though.
I have Respect for All Animals . I don't eat them, wear them, nor do I buy products that are tested on them. Animals are with us . They have their own lives . They should be able to enjoy what is theirs .
Are you writing this while you are naked?
And theirs is to get in my belly.
I prefer my food the old fashioned way.... mass slaughter using industrial equipment and delivered to me in a non-biodegradable Styrofoam container.... with fries.
and top off the cow with a nice shot of steroids before wacking it.
mmmmmmm makes my mouth water ~ i am gonna go get some cow.
Former vegetarian here. I started eating fish again about three years ago and am considering introducing poultry back into my diet. I am currently able to kill the fish I consume but am still on the fence when it comes to asking myself if I could actually kill a chicken. Yes, this actually does matter.
There is something morally wrong about being able to enjoy eating a meat but not being able to handle the emotions felt when taking the life of the animal. If the factory farms that produce your meat were not so well hidden from us, we would probably have a lot more respect for the animals that must be slaughtered for us to enjoy a meal. We would probably realize that we do not have to eat meat at every single meal and every single day. This would be better for our own conscious, the environment, our health, and for the animals which must live in horrible conditions to keep up with our crazy demand for meat.
Its not about feeling macho. Its actually the opposite. Its about realizing the sad disconnect between enjoying eating meat and not wanting anything to do with the animal that was sacrificed for your enjoyment and trying to reconcile the two.
millions of people whack their own dinner every night...the only difference between this bloke and the others is his facebook page.
The human race would not be here today if it wasnt for our ancestors hunting and fishing. There is much more nutrition in meat as compared to vegetation. Vegans have to get blood work to check their levels which is obviously not natural. We need a balanced diet and meat is a part of it.
The hunter gatherer society thankfully ended when humans planted wheat.That was 10,000 years ago. The hunter gatherer lived no more than 30 years. If he had lived into his 40s and 50s he would succumbed to heart disease and cancer. Since we became civilized we became more aware of the non corrupted goodness in plants and fruits. In point of fact it is a myth that vegans cannot get enough protein in their non animal diets. The limiting amino acid in grains is usually lysine and in legumes it can be methionine and tryptophan. So, the low level of lysine in grains is complemented by a higher level in legumes, and vice versa, to make a complete protein. I have been a vegan for 15 years. I am 66 and I still pump iron in a gym three time a week. I'll arm wrestle anyone who disagrees with my post to prove that I am healthier than most American 19 year olds.
wanna have a spear throwing contest? we could throw them at little bunnies.
Pump iron doesn't mean opening a can of soup old codger. I eat red red meat all the time, 3 times a day. Tell you what, lets go on a 20k run and then lets do some real wrestling, or wrestle first and then run 20k, I don't care. All I know is you will run poop out of energy in less than 15 minutes with your bunny food fed body.
And its a huge tell of your knowledge that you think arm wrestling or any muscle development has anything to do with how healthy you are.
This is ridiculous. For the people blasting Zuckerberg, it's not his fault this is a banner on CNN – it's CNN's. And anyone who is making comments about animal cruelty is being extremely naive. I don't kill my food, but it's 1) more humane 2) healthier 3) less expensive and 4) more efficient to kill the meat you consume. If everyone killed their own meat, we would be slaughtering hundreds of thousands LESS animals than we do nowadays. End of story.
I thought it was hundreds of trillions less not thousands
another made-up factoid!
And beside the health benefits of cutting and gutting your own meat, it's a real rush to see the blood pour out of the animal when you cut it's throat to bleed it.
do you smear it on your face and on the body of your sex partners
Eating slaughtered tortured animals is WRONG!!!! Idots.......
That's why i prefer to eat them while they are still wiggling.
We suffer from more autoimmune diseases, cancers, osteoporosis and obesity than people in China. Why? We eat from animal based foods and beverages than most of the other people on the planet. There are more clinical and peered reviewed articles proving the inherent risks associated with our so called healthy diet. These consistent articles demonstrate the value of a plant and food based food style.
show me one, just one, real source that lends support to your broad inane assumptions about China.
If you are considering killing your own meat, and are looking for an easy animal to raise and slaughter you can check out this video to learn what you can keep in any urban enviornment with no hassle from code enforcers, and it eats grass. http://www.montelloalpacacompany.blogspot.com
It is very likely that the majority of people who voted "I already do" are people who fish. I want to see a different pole that shows people who hunt with guns/bows, farmers that slaughter there own meat, and people who fish. There will be a huge difference in the numbers. I like beef, but not after I go the the state fair and pet a cow and see it has a personality. Pigs wag their tail with the same enthusiasm/happines as a dog. Rabbits jump in the air with excitement when they see their owners, or if they are playing. Most of these animals act in the same ways as pets that we would not dare consider meat.
My main point is that if people get to meet their food first, there would be many more vegetarians.
C'mon now, let's not pretend we are somehow better people because we don't kill the animals ourselves. If you pay to eat meat, you are just as responsible for the killing of animals. Period. I think it is far more responsible to personally kill what you eat than to contribute to the factory farming industry and their horrific treatment of animals. No, I'm not a vegan and I don't believe everyone should be. But, I truly feel the way we treat animals in this country is disgusting and is detrimental to our health (hormones, antibiotics, GMO's etc).
"We humans only started to eat meat during the ice age, so very recently. It was always just a part of what we ate, but now people gorge themselves on it"
Wrong. Our common ancestors the chimps also kill and eat meat (including smaller monkeys). So it is not an Ice-Age phenomena. The answer is that soon meat will be just to expensive to produce and we will be eating substitutes like algae fashioned to look like a steak. My 2 cents
I have a lot of respect for Vegans and those who take princiipaled moral and health position on their diet. I don't agree with them and am certyainly a carnivore. However, I have no respect and in fact contempt for the majority here who are pathetic hypocrits. They are apalled by the actions of this man, while they go a variety of barbaques this weekend. Whether by hunting or just slaughtering, EVERY person who choses to eat meat should at least ONCE in their life be responsible for the death of the animal you are about to consume. Otherwise, you have no honor, you are allowing others do your killing for you. The next time you eat something that died for your existance think about it!!!
What the story doesn't mention is that it's HUMANS....HE EATS HUMANS!
:)
I would be the Great White Hunter but that is not p.c. , so I will settle for Great Rainbow Hunter.
I have just returned from my back yard and I slaughtered my evening meal.
All stabbed to death by my very own hand.
Carrots, lettuce, tomatos and radishes are now in the sink bleeding out.
AAAAARRRRRRRRGGGG
He probably likes his meat Kosher. I can't think of a better way to ensure that than to slaughter the animal yourself.
I think this was a great decision and should be not only applauded, but also followed by others. If more of us (and I have killed what I eat) would do this, we'd appreciate it more. I don't believe the decision must be "vegan or meat eater," but rather a more conscious approach to how we eat. Killing you own meat will get you closer to that awareness faster than anything else.
Killing an animal for food is something that's only need based. Since I can buy food in a grocery, meat or otherwise, there's no reason to go out hunting or farming myself.
I wonder if Mr. Zuckerberg does his own house chores or yard work? I doubt it.
People with personality disorders similar to the types exhibited by Mark Zuckerberg will often kill animals as a means to lash out at society, largely due to their lack of ability to comprehend it and the frustration this causes. This practice is largely exhibited in patients who are older children whose parents say their child seems to get a pleasure from killing family and neighbor pets. Some circles say in a rudimentary manner, the consequential social interaction they receive from this stimulates latent synapses that failed to construct a social understanding.
Mark Zuckerberg as an adult realizes the practice of killing pets is considered criminal, though he cannot understand completely why it is socially unacceptable. He therefore has exercised a legal loophole as an outlet for his social aggression and it is in the slaughtering of farm animals for the purported purpose of eating them. The question remains though, does he personally butcher his own meat after he slaughters it? What is his mental state after he performs each act? Does he just take the prime pieces and throw the rest away? Judging by the number of farm animals he has slaughtered in such a short span of time it is obvious he delights more in the killing than in the actual eating of fresh meat. Without therapy his actions could evolve into a desire to kill a human being. The question then being, should his mental condition slip so far, will he eat his victim?
he has no knowledge on how to kill animal, there are tecnics to avoid pain, fear, to kill in the most decent and "respectful" way you can.
Butchery is a complicate craft, where you learn how to not waste any part, wat to do with, does he knows that, how much he's wasting meat.
if he want a steak, he sht guns a cow on his backyard, cut it and let body rotting?
that Chief, ok, he's trained and skilled, a billionaire, just sad
this is just plain sadism travestite as "eco cool" d
I don't have a problem with Zuckerberg's choice. He can eat whatever he wants. I can see a certain attraction to the idea. I just don't think it's practical for most people, nor do I think it's necessary. What I find most objectionable is the moralizing that goes with it. If you think it's okay to eat animals, fine; if you think it's not, fine. Just don't come to me and tell me that, to eat a hamburger, I hate to have a relationship with the cow. Slaughtering the animal is neither a necessary nor sufficient condition to eating meat. After suffering through so much vegan smugness, I have zero interest in the smugness of meat eaters who dub themselves the righteous carnivores. While I don't condone the living conditions of animals raised by the Colonel or sold by Ronald, I hardly think they feel any more appreciative at being slaughtered by someone with a clean conscience. If it's immoral to eat meat, it's still immoral if you do so after inviting Elsie to the country club. If it's not immoral to eat meat, it doesn't become so because you didn't court your kill. Blood doesn't wash anything clean. This is a hobby being trotted out as a moral imperative.
I don't really see what all the fuss is about. So Zuckerberg only eats what he kills...okay. Good for him. That doesn't make me feel any different about the meats that I purchase at the grocer. Is the point that if you don't kill the animal you shouldn't eat the meat? If so, I don't really understand that point. To me, it's almost like saying..."Don't drive a car if you don't do your own repairs", etc. I guess I just don't get why it's such a big deal.
My grandfather slaughtered his own pigs for meat but I don't feel any different purchasing it from a grocer. Maybe some folks get that "I did this" good feeling when they kill the animals they eat...I just prefer to get the bacon taste :)
Why use the word slaughter unless tou are a PITA finatic trying to push your own agenda. Anothe rexample of why jornalist today are destroying our society.
I have to agree with you Rick, the usage of the word "slaughter" introduces bias into the article. The word "kill" or correctly "bag" (if he was hunting) would remove the bias from the article. The term "slaughter" is more appropriately used when a person(s) kill much more than necessary or in excessive amounts. If Mark Z "kills for need, and not for greed", there should be no objection. Many people who buy meat at the store often forget that an animal gave its life to feed one or more of us.
I imagine it has more to do with knowing where the meat came from and how it was processed in a clean and healthy way due to bad factories that anything else. Makes sense to me. Im not a hunter because im squemish like that, but they do it and so do butchers, etc. Unless your a vegetarian, which I am not nor will I ever be..i love my steaks, etc it kinda being hypocritical to judge him.
I have slaughtered before. I grew up on a small farm. I don't do it any more as I live in a more urban environment now. I think it is good for people to understand that something must die in order for others to live.
I don't kill my own food. Instead, I use the most efficient means to my end. I pay other people to do my killing for me.
There is documentary out that raises serious questions about being a carnivore. It's called "Forks over Knives'. The two gentlemen in the doc are a scientist and a vascular surgeon. They are both men of advanced years. The scientist has published papers in peer reviewed journals that provide clinical and scientific evidence that protein from meat will shorten your lifespan. That milk from cows will cause osteoporosis. If we change our diets to avoid eating or drinking from animals we will live longer, suffer fewer cancers or autoimmune diseases and will lose weight without even trying. Human canines are really far too small for us to be considered carnivorous.
So not only does he eat the animal, he wants to look it in the eyes before killing it. That should piss off the hippies pretty bad.
I checked "other" on the poll because although I've actually skinned and gutted the chickens, I haven't had the courage to actually slit a throat. Processing chickens is not something you should do every day, says Joel Salatin, lest you become calloused to death. I totally agree.
No cupcakes were harmed in the typing of this comment.
People around the country do this type of thing all the time. It's called hunting. My father always taught us to "only shoot at something you intend to eat." The one exception was in self-defense against a human. We hunt and eat squirrels, rabbits, deer, possums, grouse, and ducks and fish for, well, fish. I'd love to try bear someday, but the permits are hard to get (I can see all the sarcastic posts after mine – "The bear would love to try you, [insert name-called]!). The one exception is the fact that you can't (legally) hunt chickens, pigs, and cows, as they're farm animals and somebody owns them. That's the only meat we get from the store – beef, pork, chicken, and the occassional box of frozen fish sticks. Zuckerburg is doing this for ethics, but my family does it to save money and survive. Three good-sized deer will last us an entire year, and the only cost was an old hunting rifle or compound bow and a few 25-cent bullets (we retreive the arrows). Try comparing that with $1.00 per-pound beef, which doesn't normally even taste as good.
If something didn't die to make my meal, it's not worth eating. Don't worry vegans, I'll kill your share of animals too.
Roadkill anyone??
This poll is poorly designed. It locks meat eaters into either already being a hunter or farmer, feeling obligated to try, being too squeamish to do it ourselves, or desperate. I would guess that most non-vegetarians fit none of these categories. There should be the "I'm perfectly happy buying my meat from someone else who killed it for me. But if there isn't any other way, sure, I'd do it myself." category. If Mark Zuckerman has a chef, it probably means that he isn't actually doing all of it himself. Because the biggest reason we don't routinely kill and butcher our own meat is because it's time consuming.
i cant beleive this is even news! next thing you know "THIS JUST IN, MAN GROWS OWN VEGETABLE GARDEN!" omg, no way?!?!?!?!?! I love how people make such a big deal out of this. We are supposed to eat animals. He is deciding to cut out the middle man, processing plants etc, and getting his own food. He is only killing what he is going to eat. thats what humans were originally meant to do! If you say its wrong to slaughter an animal, then you better not ever eat meat in your life, or else you are just being a total hypocrite. Blows my mind so many of you are so stupid.
What's the big deal, he has already eaten our livers. He just needs some Fava beans.......
It's distressing that for 20+ years the best, most clever retort to my diet has been "vegetables are killed for your diet too." C'mon guys, even if plants did have higher neural functions, pain-capacity and the ability to suffer as mammals ( such as ourselves) do, eating vegetarian still causes less vegetation to die that grisly death. Try harder.
And to further support your point: Our brains, the most important and sophisticated of all organs, don't feel or produce pain signals. It seems that pain was designed by the "genes" selfishly, without caring for the missery it induced on the animals.
Vegetables can't feel what we all know all too well as pain.
Jonathan,
I don't see why anyone would need to come up with a retort for your diet. You choose to be a vegetarian, so be it, you are probably healthier for the choice. I on the other hand have not made that choice and have no qualms about raising/hunting, killing, and preparing my own meat. The fact of life itself (including our own) is that all things die and will be consumed by something between man and microbe.
In places where agriculture has been established the commercial production of vegetable food and grains has had a tremendous impact upon nature in the raw for both native plants and animals. There are more than 6 billion of us living here and we have adapted the planet to feed most of us most of the time. Doing that with less impact or in a more efficient manner is a good thing so keep making good points. I just don't see a moral high ground here.
Because it is not self-evident. It is based on an evolving inteligence. After all, we do not approve of eating humans!! And even many do not support even using embrionary stem cells taken from embrios for medical research.
The only problem I have with a completely vegan diet is that it seems very unhealthy. I had an aunt who was vegan, eating nothing but organically grown vegetables, fruits, nuts, and the like, and drinking only water. She was very active and fit when she started this diet, exercising almost daily. She became very unhealthy, looking pale, thin and weak and had to stop exercising as much because her body couldn't handle it. After a year, she bumped it up to include beans, milk, eggs, yogurt, and other animal by-products, but still wasn't very healthy. She had a child, and put her on the same diet, and both of them were incredibly thin and always felt weak After a few more years, she finally added in white meats, like poulty and fish. Her health finally improved to the point where she could start exercising again. She had another child, who never experienced the vegetarian diet, and this child is much healthier and more active. Why would this be? I'm assuming it's from the lack of necessary antioxidants, antibodies, and protein found in meat, but could there be another explanation? Please tell.
This is why I only eat ice cream and free-range Oreos.
I am a lifelong vegetarian. That is how my parents raised me, and I am very glad for it. However, if I were ever to eat meat, I would only do so if I killed my food myself. Why? Because it forces you to realize where your food is coming from. Most people do not do this. Also, you have control over the entire process. You can be sure that the animal was raised humanely (i.e.- no hormones or antibiotics added to its food, animal lived in good, open conditions and not in a small cage, etc). Further, you can slaughter the animal humanely, so that it does not suffer. Most of the biggest slaughter houses in this country do nothing to control for animal suffering during the killing process. Often, animals are hung upside down by their legs, their throats are cut, and they are left to bleed to death, crying in pain.
If anyone is very interested in the slaughtering process that our biggest slaughter houses use, I recommend the documentary "Earthlings". It is a great film. I am sure it will give you a new perspective and a respect for what people like Zuckerberg are doing.
I like your point (and approve the reasons), but on a personal point: I wouldn't eat animals very often then. On a society at large scale, if your arguments became law, the billions of humans that still crave animals for food would be keeping animals in their back yards and gardens, deseases would spread, or eating meats will have to be out lawed and then we will have to have a "DEA-like" department to enforce animal-less diets....
I think that the problem is that the humans are overcrowding all other living things. It seems that nature has not figured out how to outmaneuvre us. Yet.
For the same reason others do weird things. MAKE HEADLINES.
Isn't this fellow a little Asperghyish?
I can't understand the need to have to be the killer of every meat I eat. I've done it and I'll do it again if I have to, but i certainly don't NEED to do it. Besides, the smells of blood and the other "things" a broken animal body emits stays in your nose-memory longer than garlic,oregano and thyme.
"We humans only started to eat meat during the ice age," So very wrong.Hunting and gathering had been part of our specie's evolution for thousands of years preceding that event. And, if you look at cultures that exist today, those that still exist the are the closest to "natural", those aboriginal cultures in Borneo, Africa and South America in tropical regions, you will find that hunting is still part of providing their dietary needs. They have adapted fully to their environments.
But, I do agree with you: eating meat is a natural part of our diets as a biological adaptation, but we in the 1st world consume far too much of it.
That's kind of un-American isn't it? I'm a bit more traditional, find some other slog and pay him as little as possible to do the dirty work. Life is about rewards, not the struggle to get them.
Why is being a Vegetarian and option for voting?
News flash, all animals that are consumed by humans are killed by someone. Is it not a logical disconnect to criticize someone for doing the whole process from start to finish? Would anyone dream of criticizing him for raising his own tomatoes, or baking his own bread? Nope, only when it comes to slicing his own bacon.
I teach wilderness survival and part of the course is catching and preparing live game. In the course we use domestic quail instead of wild birds and most of my students have never killed or prepared an animal for the table. Of course if someone is a vegetarian or objects they don't have to participate. However, those who do not kill do not eat meat either, that is just reality here on planet earth in a survival context. Either you make your stand and go vegetarian or live up to the fact that some creature had to die for you to eat meat. The middle ground is a bit confused.
I agree with you, but one thing that I'd like to point out: even in those cultures that live just as you teach, being a vegetarian is not really natural. They still subsist on plants and animals for food, just like those before them had for thousands of years. One more thing: Vegans point out that clearing prairie land for cows in not natural, ignoring the fact that Bison roamed that same land for millions of years before them. But, agriculture is not natural, introducing species in concentrated form in ecosystems where they are not native, clearing millions of acres of native plants and dumping millions of tons of fertilizers into the river systems that pollute and kill fish in the Gulf Of Mexico. Kind of hypocritical of them, don't you think?
My daughter was once studying man's impact on nature. I asked her, "What would you say if men went into an area and stripped out all of the native plants and reduced the ground to bare earth for hundreds and hundreds of square miles." She said, "That would be horrible!". I said, "That is Iowa."
I once read the little sleeve around my coffee cup in Starbucks. It said "No native plants were harmed in the making of this cup" or something to that effect. Apparently most people have never seen a coffee plantation, miles and miles of virgin Brazilian Atlantic Forest stripped bare to create room for coffee.
I'm all for living with a light hand on the land. I teach no trace wilderness living and would like to see more of it preserved. Being human comes with certain realities and we as a species have become very far removed from them.
Typical spoiled kid from Harvard of an all too common persuasion .. A gun muzzle in his mouth might reform this POS right quick .. We all have a full array of anatomical features - but behaving like one is not acceptable in 2011 .. He belongs in a lockup
Kudos to Mr. Zuckerberg. If everyone had to do this then there would still be plenty of meat eaters in the world. But as a whole I believe animals would be treated better prior to slaughter and people would eat less and waste less meat. Becoming a vegetarian is one's personal choice, but it is a choice to deny that human physiology evolved to include meat in the diet, whether we like it or not. I know I could slaughter my own meat if I had to, but I'm glad I don't have to. I admire Mr. Zuckerberg's commitment to his ideals.
You're an idiot. you think humans need to eat meat. humans need to eat meat as much as humans need clogged arteries.
Soo...nobodies ever been fishing and ate what they caught on here?
Killing makes Mark's balls bigger.
Just check out meat.0rg. Then make your owm decision.
At least Zuck's knowledge of the life of his food is experiential, and the possible karmic fallout is directly understood.
sounds like he's losing his mind.
"Because we were designed to eat meat.. That's why"
Actually, we weren't designed. But we are omnivorous.
True – I try to travel as much as I can....
We are also designed for murder...you're dodging the moral issue.
Join my organization: P.E.T.A. People for the Eatting of Tasty Animals
Are billionaires weird before they become billionaires or do the billions just make them weird?
I can't believe this non-news is in the headlines for the 3rd day in in a row. I can't believe I bothered to read it, and I can't believe I wasted the time to type a comment.
Back to the BBC and real news.
Asperger's
SO WHAT! Other people slaughter my meat and I buy it from the store and eat it. And people get paid to report this type of NONSENSE!
IF you're going to require that someone die in order for you to eat, then at least have the courage to do the killing yourself.
Letting someone else do the killing for you eases your conscience (such as it is) but not your complicity in the killing. Otherwise you're like someone who won't steal but will buy "hot" items.
Mark Zuckerberg did NOT create Facebook, I did!
Frank
So, then why are you still broke...
Due to a typo, he called it "Facebroke", and nobody signed up....
The article mentions slitting the throat of the animal.
There is NOTHING humane or respectful about having ones throat slit. It is a horrrible, terrifying and long way to die. This sounds like Talmudic sacrifice, which can also be done on humans, if I am correct. So where is this headed?
I don't like to harm anything with feelings. Especially when it is not necessary. For those of you who think you need meat...Isn't it amazing when you take animal products and processed foods out of your diet your body begins to heal?...Give it a try. You will feel bad from the withdrawal and detox for a short period of time but then you will feel amazing.
It needs to be in a styrofoam tray, with a diaper and covered with plastic. No recognition that it was an animal. If I had to do it myself I would starve and I LOVE meat!
Who the f cares.
Exactly! First who cares who kills the animal? It will be killed and eaten. End of story. You that have responed need a better subject than this and maybe a life and more education. It's hard to accept that I live with this many ill-informed people. I must watch who's around me.
Killing any animal for food is wrong. I haven't touched a scrap of meat, chicken or fish in 20 years. We don't need to kill any animal to live. I am alive, healthy and athleltic. We kill animals because we like the taste. Some people have a conscience, most do not. Having said that, hunting is not nearly as cruel as the food industry. Still cruel and unnecessary, just not AS cruel.
You may not but i do love to eat meat and nothing can stop me doing it. All these stuff like animals right ... come on..! Animals have right to be tasty!
Mike, you make like the taste of meat. And some of have said, humans are born to eat meat. But to me that's the not the question. Is it moral is the question. As a human beings I am born to, and inclined to all kinds of bad things, murder, rape, you name it. But we can't use that as a basis for avoiding the moral question of right or wrong. Animal rights are were racial rights were a hundred and 60 years ago. And people mocked that movement to justify slavery, just as they are mocking this one.
PhillipP you scare me! So would you advocate stopping animal carnivores from eating meat as well? Say, preventing a lion from killing and eating a gazelle? What about preventing sharks from eating other fish? Should we do that as well? I'm with you as far as minimizing the suffering and improving the living conditions of animals destined to become "food". But as far as comparing eating meat to murder and rape, that is crazy talk, my friend. I'll stop eating meat when they pull the half chewed steak out of my mouth. My personal belief is that outsmarting our prey is what helped us evolve into the little environment rapers we are today. It doesn't take too much intelligence to pull a piece of fruit off a tree. We need to save the Earth, that is very true, and eating less meat may be part of the answer. But we need to find realistic solutions to these problems.
Next you know he will get on the multi-million dollar yacht and go lobster fishing.
"...chefs and grandmothers ..."
I think everyone should have to kill their own meat. We have detached killing from food, so society has this weird notion that killing is bad, but they don't bat an eyelash when they waste food. There's also a huge environmental problem with eating so much meat (just Google it). Killing our own food would reduce meat consumption, which is a good thing.
This is dumb. I have killed animals for food before, and undoubtedly will again sometime in the future. To personally kill every one though...stupid!
We *do* live in a modern age where this isn't necessary. Yes, we need to be realistic about where our food comes from. As a teen, I raised a steer to show at the County fair, then we ate it. I raised ~100 chickens over the summer...whatever we didn't sell, we ate. These days, it isn't economically smart, or even very sanitary for me to do that, so I buy from the supermarket.
"Why would a billionaire slaughter his supper?"
And why actually not? Whats wrong with you people? People rights , Animals right , grass rights , trees rights ...this world is going to an end!
I dont understand whats wrong here? Probably all of you eat meat ...and that meat is coming from animals that probably had names like Fluffy :D
News and corporations:
DO NOT MIX or drab marketing disguised as 'stories' like these will come out.
"why would a billionaire 'slaughter'....."......uuggghhhh! is this how cheap-sensationalism american journalism has already become......man,....whatsoever you are....you are trash, garbage and utterly despicable....go plant camote, ok!!!! asshole!!!
You can depend on CNN
to bend over for Mark Zuckerberg
Funny how a geek can tell 600 million idiots that a mere website is supposed to be leading every little part of their life.
I have NO problem killing animals.. we breed them for the purpose. But I will NOT eat an animal, since dead animals are "second hand food": They are just plants that has already been eaten. In the process a lot of toxins are added and a lot of nutrition is lost.
I think only Americans (except for a handful few) didn't know that 3/4 of the world population butcher their own meat. Please, don't show your ignorance of global culture by accusing MZ as bloodthirsty just because you grew up thinking the meat in the grocery store was cultivated in the green house.
Within Buddhism there are three levels of meat eating, all not good, but some better than others. In terms of negative karma created, the least is eating an animal that died by accident. I lived in a Buddhist monastery in Nepal where the only meat they would eat was of an animal that fell off a cliff or was killed by a bear, etc. This is an example of the least offensive. Next is eating meat from a bazaar that you didn't explicitly order killed, and the heaviest karmically is eating the meat of animals you killed. FYI from a Buddhist perspective.
We do it all the time, when we go fishing.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with animal farming or hunting. We've been doing it for thousands of years and it's helped sustain us as a species. If you don't feel squeamish eating a hot dog, you shouldn't have a problem with it.
I think that is awesome...only when you see how your meat is killed by battery farms or if you have seen that secret filming of a kosher farm, will you realize what cruelty the animals are being subjected to.
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Another worthless dumb a**s story by CNN.
I am a vegetarian....I chose to stop eating meat and fish because it grossed me out. However, I don't believe being a vegetarian is right for everyone. I am not opposed to people eating meat. I also commend Mark Zuckerberg for actually doing his own hunting. Everyone who said it is healthier than store bought meat are correct. The same applies to fruits and vegetables. The closer they are to their natural state the better. Kudos to Mark for having the balls to do what most people couldn't.
OMG, a billionaire does something that many other people have been doing for ages! Wow! THAT'S news! I want MORE of it!
Do billionaires wipe their own bottoms when they go to the bathroom? Wow, so do I! I wouldn't have thought so! Do billionaires drive cars that run on gas? OMG that's sooo amazing! So do I!
People have been killing animals throughout the history of civilization. We are omnivores. Even vegans have to kill animals (pests/rodents/bugs) to be able to eat.
Just because you do the killing yourself doesn't make you a monster. And just because you let others do it for you doesn't make you less responsible for the killing.
Hey, I got an idea: let's judge our pet cats for eating meat and killing birds. (the second largest man-caused death of wild birds, after window-hits, are pet cats)
Good for him.
Killing your own food is the most moral and humane way to be a carnivore. It forces you to take responsibility for your decisions.
I wish I had the courage and character to do the same. I always feel like a giant hypocrite because I know how inhumane the treatment of animals in our industrial food complex is, and yet I can't give up meat.
Instead, I just push those conflicting feelings to the side and literally ignore reality. It's weak, and pathetic, and it's what 99% of us do.
I dont think I could gut a bird or mammal. I've gutted fish, and thats gross enough. I wouldn't have the slightest idea how to de-feather a bird or skin an animal for cooking, in any case.
I haven't tried rat OR snake, but I know they are both very low fat, low cholesterol meat. I have to wonder if you 1. Dislike Chinese people, 2. Eat meat, and 3. Are a hypocrite? Just wondering.
Oh yeah, that was directed at myway8 .. Sorry Bill. I'm with you brother.
none of the above. it is the facts. Mr. FB got himself a chinese gf whose father is an official of the HK immigration, so his FB could get a starter to enter China. Manipualtive greedy Z or J? Again, facts.
myway8, I guess it's way too far fetched to believe he could actually love this woman? Because billionaires don't have human emotions, right? And Westerners are never attracted to Eastern women? Come on, as billionaires go he seems like a decent person to me (nicer that I'd be, I'm sure .. if I had that kind of money I'd give most of the world the finger! Of course, there's PR to consider.). A movie is a movie ... only our friends and family truly know us. BTW, the number 8 is good luck for Chinese people.
I voted "other" so the poll said I should explain. I've caught and killed and eaten fish, Maryland and Delaware blue crabs, and on a very few occasions, I've participated in the killing of chickens I've subsequently cooked and eaten. I have no particular desire to do that again. I have a good friend who kills deer in licensed hunts and his family eats the meat. I've had it a couple of times. I participated in a dinner once in Vermont in which the hostess slaughtered a young goat and cooked it on her ancient wood-burning stove with herbs she'd raised on her farm.
None of this is something I'd do regularly unless, of course, I had a farm of my own. Nor can I find any particular reason for opposing the idea, if Zuckerberg has the time and inclination.
But the meats raised on one's own farm and slaughtered there do tend to taste a lot better than what one gets in the supermarket. Wild game, on the other hand, tends to be tough and quite chewy.
Vegetarianism is probably a lot healthier - certainly healthier than the crap fat America eats –but that's a choice; not mine. I have no qualms about eating a moderate amount of meat.
He should let his GF help him kill the animals, they eat – she eats snakes, rats, she is chinese, they are used to kill any animal for food.
I voted "no, but I feel I should try" only because I know they mean, specifically, non-fishing, non "your guilty anyway if you eat meat because somebody killed it for you so who we trying to kid" hunting. I think it's so ridiculous when people say "oh I could never kill a poor animal, that's so wrong" but yet they eat hamburgers, fish, chicken, the works .. even game! I haven't hunted outside of fishing and I am not a sadistic person. However, I do want to go hunting with an experienced person and eat the meat. If you eat meat and you have a problem with that ... bite me.
Ray,
You know that no vegetarian would bite you.
Bill, I know (actually a few of the women I've dated were vegetarians, and .. but I know what you mean!). My "beef" is not with vegetarians who object to hunting. At least they're consistent with their logic. What annoys me are the meatsuckers who oppose hunting. They're just clueless!
Who cares. Oh wait the bleeding heart libtards. Man has always killed his food, and will continue to do so.
Hey, rightwing: I'm a liberal and I've killed and eaten my own food with not a qualm or hesitation. Eaten deer my buddy killed. No problemo. We aren't all what you think we are. I even have right-wing friends. I'd vote against them if they ran for office, but they're still friends.
It doesn't say he eats meat. It says he kills his own food. Bugs. Maggots. Cockroaches. Worms. I knew he wasn't human.
although are meat you moron, even though they are bugs.
before someone points it out. i know i incorrectly worded that sentence. (Grammar N a z i ) it should have said all of those are meat.
This is not hard to believe. He eats roaches and worms. Just look at him!
Animals are sometimes food, and sometimes friends.
I don't eat meat, but I don't call myself a vegetarian. There is nothing wrong with eating meat – it's a normal thing to do. I don't eat meat because I prefer not to pay someone else to do my killing for me. Maybe I'm one of those touchy-feely types that some conservatives love to look down their noses at and demean. I don't care, it's a personal choice. I don't push it on anyone, so would appreciate the same courtesy in return.
Of course, I'm not perfect, but who is? I do have a few leather products, but try to keep to a minimum. AND, what are you going to feed the cat? Let he who is without sin cast the first stone...
Regarding Zuckerberg, he's a personality in the spotlight, so he can say and do what he wants and lots of people will pay attention. I think it's hard to be in that position and not come across like you're taking a stand or trying to look like you're better than others. Some people will be offended because his views get attention and their's don't.
I am a conservative. And thank you for not pushing your choices on me. I do the same. What I hate are those on both sides who push you to do one or the other. Animal lovers try to make you feel guilty, meat eaters try to say you are not a "man" unless you eat meat. I love to eat vegetables but i also love a juicy piece of meat with them.
"I don't push it on anyone, so would appreciate the same courtesy in return."
You've got Conservatives pushing you to eat meat? How? Did the pass a law outlawing the sale of carrots?
Just for you people who are concerned about how an animal that is to be eaten for food dies, after many, many days and nights of research, I have determined that there is no "good" way to die. Everything that lives and breathes has to die sooner or later, and there just is no "good" way for that to happen. So, my suggestion would be that if you enjoy eating meat, any kind, go ahead and enjoy it. If it bothers you to eat meat, knowing that something had to be killed for you to do that, then don't eat it and leave those who do that alone. You like plants and vegetables? They have to die at some point for you to eat them. But it don't bother me if you eat them. I eat animals, plants, and vegetables, and probably several other things I don't even know about. People are scavengers, basically, like buzzards. Everything they eat should be dead. If you have buzzard luck, where you can't kill anything and nothing won't die, then you're in trouble.
100% agree with you.
the titanic was false it was not sank it was blowed up by polish spy named garando soliski he was cemical expert who made bomb to be blowned up wile at sea to make to make it look like a iceberg blowned up the titanic but it was a bomb.the polish govermant was in cahoots with russia who where jellous of rbitish naval supereority and wanted titanic to be blowned up which is what happens with a bomb and not by a iceberg like history says to us.the bonb was made of cemicals which blewn up a the boat when it was in the sea by the spy.
To be blunt, I sort of understand where Zuckerberg is coming from (disagree about the way he slaughters the animals though). If you wish to continue to eat meat, believe me, you DO NOT WANT TO SEE the conditions the animals are kept in at corporate farms. Their lives are a living hell, kept in pens where they can't move, injected daily & fed horrifying things to fatten them up, and when they are killed, it's revoltingly ugly how it's done in many cases. If you were to see this in person, trust me, you will come out of it ultimately respecting a hunter or personal farmer vastly more than you ever thought, as they treat the animals with humanity in comparison....to think otherwise, is to bury your head in the sand like a fool of the worst kind.
Unfortunately you are correct. I have a small farm and butcher my own meat, i also allow friends and family, when there is enough cattle, chickens, pigs, deer etc. to come out and chose what they want in order to have farm fresh meat. By doing so I maintain a balance on my farm as well as provide meat to those close to me at no cost. And in these times when prices are so high at the stores they are very thankful.
Does he massage the cow himself before he slaughters it?
Yeah, why doesn't he also birth the calf and raise it before he kills and eats it. Keeping it as a pet before he killed it would make him even more in touch with it. If he wants to be really "authentic" about this he should kill and eat his dog. Then he can say, "I never eat meat I haven't raised as a pet and killed myself".
After I watched a few deer with holes in their chest bleed out in front of me or when I had the chance I blow half their head off to put them down when they are flopping, I never wasted meat again... yeah just because your a pussy or chose to never think about it doesn't mean the meat you don't give a damn about didn't come from the suffering of another animal. Finish your plate next time and shut-up about this guy respecting what he consumes.
Humans have canines and molars which mean they were designed to eat meat and plants.
For the individual who said "there are grocery stores"–someone kills the animals to put meat on the shelves. Hunters just take out that middle man. Or did you think the animals walked in, shed their skins and dropped dead?
Frankly, hunting is vastly more humane than the way the animals live & die that fill the grocery stores. It always bothers me that so many people have no clue about what corporate farms & slaughterhouses are like.
I just hope they don't release Edsr any time soon. because if they do, something will be killed and eaten soon after. Edsr, what about those plants and vegetables you're eating. Don't they have to die for you to eat them? Or do you just grab them up and eat them while they're still screaming? You should just go on a water diet, but if it hasn't been poisoned first, you'll be eating all those tiny little things alive that are living in there. There is no way around it Edsr, you're gonna kill something if you stay alive. Horrible, just Horrible! I can't even think about it right now.
I am against hunting unless it's necessary, like animal population control, sick animals, etc. If a hunter kills an animal for consumption, I can live with that (barely), if they kill for pleasure, that is sick. To judge Zuckerberg for slaughtering his own meal? So what? I didn't hear any objections when the female country singer who just got married (I forgot her name), admitted "harvesting" in other workds killing deer for meat. Zuckerberg just happened to be famous/notorious and people have a hang up about his eating habbits, and everything else. Besides, he is Jewish and they have different dietary laws, although killing their own food isn't one of them.
That is why they only issue (X) amount of permits each year, population control. Some years you are able to harvest, kill, shoot, whatever you chose to say (X) amount of bucks and (X) amount of does. Speaking for deer hunting of course. Me, im not out to trophy hunt, i like venison and if i go a season without shooting a buck so be it.
Wow, I'm surprised to see so many people disagree with Zuckerberg. Hunting to feed yourself and your family has always been a perfectly normal thing to do. Furthermore, it's more economical and safer than buying processed meat.
..and hunting is immensely more humane than how that same animal lives & dies at corporate farms. With hunting, at least that animal had a decent life up to the end, vs the nightmarish hell they are subjected to from birth to death at such mega-farms.
It's no wonder this country is going down the tubes. I have never read such drivel, except the last time I read some comments under a CNN article. There is no question in my mind that EDsr is a bonafide liberal lunatic. I hope to goodness he's not qualified to vote. BTW, EDsr, if you get hungry enough and want to live, you'll not only kill and eat chickens, cows, deer, dogs, cats, etc., but humans as well. Don't say you won't now, just because you've not been hungry enough yet. I think that all people such as EDsr should be fed roadkill if they want to eat any meat. It should say "RoadKill" right on the package.
Veganism reduces your global footprint more than having everyone on the planet drive electric cars.
A plant based diet will reduce your chances of cancer, high blood pressure and a host of other ills that most american accept. Just because you kill it yourself doesnt make it ok.
People have a free choice to eat what they want. No one you should tell anyone otherwise. I take it you are a vegan, ok, I eat meat and vegetables. I can tell you how juicy me steak is, and you can tell me how juicy that tomato is. But its those who force one way or another onto someone who are the problem.
Not when you consider that cows eat grass which is indigestible by humans. In most arable areas the farmers who raise chickens and cows can live on a much smaller "footprint" than those who only eat vegetables.
We are born to a bloody planet...it's either kill and eat or be killed and eat. We are food to other creatures on this planet too. I used to think that domesticating animals was better than eating bambie, but actually domesticated animals for food is a sad thing. at least Bambie had a chance to live free and do the things that wild beasts do. If the hunter didn't come along and shoot Bambie would have been killed and eaten by another wild animal and maybe not quite so quickly. I look at my cats and even though they are housepets, they wouldn't hesitate to kill a mouse and eat it. sooooooo what am I saying? I hate eating meat, but I do it anyways because I'm a bloody earthling.
I have caught and gutted fish but never an animal. I think I could kill and prepare fowl with not to much emotion but a animal like a cow or pig I am not so sure. I would probably need an expert's help.
I have done it, and it is very messy. luckily we have a butcher who will travel to farms and do it for us. but if need be i can and will.
I believe in Law of the Jungle, but that is if its for survival, If your a billionaire and who can order take out from another nation just for kicks, why would kill an animal that does not need to be killed. its a waist of life.
If God didn't want us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them out of meat.
who cares? aren't there more imporant needs and concerns in our world for us to be aware of than this c r a p? Save it for the funny pages.
This is all I have to say about vegitarianism.
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I personally, think that slaughterhouses and carnivores smell bad – but that just me. However, I Think that a MORE INTERESTING thing to consider is This BILLIONAIRE who enjoys SLAUGHTER. This Illustrates pretty clearly the PREDATORY Nature of CAPITALISM. It is Based Upon PRINCIPLES which are Essentially the Law of the Jungle.
Hundreds of thousands of people hunt their meat every year and either butcher it or have their meat market do it. Millions of people raise their own meat and either butcher it or have the meat market do it. But when a billionaire does the same thing, he's deranged, predatory, obsessed with slaughtering? You have a personal problem.
"carnivores smell bad"? Geez, I sat next to a gassy, pale, pasty faced vegan kid for two hours on the plane last week. I thought I was going to spew.
Maybe there is something to that. I put my dog on a diet of really expensive dog food from the fashionable dog food store - one bag was heavy on beef, the other guaranteed to be largely Pacific salmon. And going from Iams to that stuff, she did start to smell bad, her poops were lie toxic waste and her breath smelled.
Maybe that's why I don't have a girlfriend. Never thought of becoming a vegan to get laid.
On the other hand...Naah.
I did put my dog back on Supermarket dog food, though. If I gotta eat supermarket food, so does she.
Stop badmouthing Lions, Tigers, and Hyenas, you lowly omnivore. Oh, you thought you were a herbivore just because you choose not to eat meat? Sorry, you are still an omnivore like the rest of us. I don't know a single person who actually attempts to eat a carnivore diet the way you silly vegans try to pretend you are herbivores.
I would have to say I would kill my own meat, If I could afford to do so. I can't afford a hunting license or the time it would take to get one and travel to where the game is. I could fish, but I don't like to sit around doing nothing.
I admire mark for his principles. He is taking responsibility eating meat. He's not saying he doesn't like meat. He's saying he will eat meat, but he will do it in a responsible manner. He won't leave someone else to do his dirty work for him.
the more I jack off, the more I feel I can accomplish any thing.
...as he typed with one hand......
IJO You really need to stay off of the computer. Go accomplish something like finding out wy you are demented. Good luck.
therefore I can do anything.
I heard once that a pound of beef can have meat from up to 100 cows...now, what do you think of shopping in the woods, as it was meant to be?
I would actually raise my own animals and only eat what I killed if I had the land, time, and knowledge to do it. It makes sense. You know what the animal has been fed, the conditions it lives in, and what kinds of vaccinations and medicine it has had. And, I know from experience that fresh meat is so much better than anything you can buy!
You are on the way to enlightenment... I wish everyone had this mindset.
Actually it's idiotic thinking. Do you dream "If only I had a coal mine, a iron ore deposit, etc. then I'd do it all myself" Those who idealize "self sufficiency" are economic fools. Most of us would die off if we tried to be self sufficient. Humans have always been about specialization and trade.
Only people who have been involved in the full life-cycle truly understand and appreciate how the world works. Much to the chagrin of whack-jobs, it's not just humans that eat other animals. It happens every second of every day and you can stick your head in the sand and deny it, feel free, but life goes on whether or not you see it, take part it it, or you want to accept it. Those who conscientiously kill what they eat UNDERSTAND this life cycle and are more in TUNE with the natural world than so-called environmentalists who spend most of their lives in a cubicle. Those environmentalists are the ones who need our sympathy; they are truly out of touch and don't even know it. THE BEAST IS DEAD...LONG LIVE THE BEAST!
For the press coverage?
What is so hard about throwing a few lobsters in a boiling pot of water???
I think that if you kill an animal in order to eat it you tend to appreciate more the piece of meat that 's in your plate and have a better understanding of the sacrifice of life that was needed for you to eat. When you buy your meat at the store , what you get is a steak or a chicken thigh, you tend to forget that that piece of meat used to be a living creature that had to die so you can enjoy your B.B-Q I think that if everyone had to kill an animal once in their life in order to eat, they would appreciate what you are eating more, and would be less wasteful.
I appreciate much more than you think. In fact when I munch on a single McNugget I'm fully aware that over 300 chickens died to participate in that one nugget.
If you kill an animal you have taken something from them that you are incapable of replacing, which should produce some shame, humility, and gratitude for the sustenance provided. You are not going to want to take more from the creature, namely their dignity.
I'll bet you don't even swat flies.
So will he be building his next mansion or yacht? Planting the back 40 of his farm? Rebuilding his Mazerrait's engine?
Ahh, suburbanites guilt..
If you eat meat, or use leather, etc., you are paying someone to kill animals for you. Whether you like it or not, that is a fact. Yet you somehow manage to see yourselves as "better" than people who choose to do it themselves. You are wrong! People who "do it themselves" generally have much greater respect for the animals they consume than does the general public. While you see meat as just a slab of protein you buy at the grocery store, others see it for what it really represents. Animals that are raised commercially live a short, unnatural, dismal life that ends in a barbaric manner. Just how is that "better"? Oh, I know, you didn't have to get any blood on your hands, just on your wallet!
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I grew up on a farm with my grandparents and the only thing they bought at the market was salt, flour, coffee, sugar and vegetable oil. All the rest of our food was raised and processed at home. My grandfather butchered a hog every year and cured the meat in the smokehouse, made his own fresh sausage, bacon, salt pork, etc. On Sundays when it was time to make dinner we went out to the yard and got a chicken or, for special occasions, a goose. We even milked our own cow and along with the fresh, raw milk we had fresh butter and ice cream that Grammy made. Add to that a huge garden, orchards and vineyard full of dozens of different kinds of vegetables and fruits that we ate fresh in the warm seasons or canned and dried in winter. Grandpa and his brothers also hunted and fished. We had venison, squirrel, rabbit, quail, pheasant, whatever they could get. That food was the best – fresh, clean, delicious. I wish I could live that life now. The flavor and quality of grocery store food is so disappointing in comparison and factory farmed food is poison. I give kudos to Mr. Zuckerberg for looking his food in the eye before he eats it.
I don't give him kudos at all. H's a billionaire with time on his hands...
And he hasn't invited me over for dinner yet.
When I grew up (ancient times...50s) the milk was delivered by the milkman (we sometimes went to the dairy farm in town and bought it straight from there), bread came from the Bond Bread bakery in Newark, neighbors raised chickens, and we had our own garden for our vegetables. We bought red meat from the butcher in town sometimes and the A&P sometimes. It all tasted better and had no artificial ingredients.
And those who had farms, like Sinister Sister, ate better that we did.
Oh...and M. Lee, who lived up the road, ate possum, squirrel and raccoon he trapped. I never did develop a taste for those furry creatures. But I have plucked a few chickens.
Yeah, but that was because your family were farmers. What you didn't do was smelt your own metal, dig your own coal, blacksmith your own knives, drill your own oil, produce your own paper & ink, weave your own cloth, etc. Great that you had fresh tasty food because you were farmers but it's a little ridiculous to expect the guy who works in the coal mine to heat your house to also have his own farm. In fact, if he did that he'd have no reason to trade his coal for your food.
Sure... but if he -had- done all of the things you mentioned, nobody would be calling him a disgusting killer for it. That's the disconnect here.
Scott I agree with that but I think it stupid to romanticize staring down the food you eat before you kill it. It doesn't make you a better person no more so than drilling your own oil.
Again and with emphasis, you suck on so many levels. Nice job on glomming onto someone else's screen name. Your mother must be so proud.
I've fished and that would qualify, many family members hunt and some even keep livestock for the purpose. The thing is that this is a solumn thing, the taking of life. Not a thing to try to use for your own PR, doing so is disrespectful and wrong. Zukerberg is looking creepier by the moment, which is saying something as he was creepy to start with.
Animal cruelty is a strong predictor of sociopathic behavior. He is getting far too much pleasure in doing this and in talking about it on the news for us to believe that this is truly an attempt to slaughter fewer animals. He is working out his psychiatric demons in a very bloody way in a very public forum.
I totally agree with Dana. Also, in times past, killing your own food was essential to survival. It no longer is - imagine all city dwellers killing animals in their backyards! Let's see - after I come home from the office, do I have to go out and kill a few animals in my backyard every month? I also am very much aware of the horrendous conditions on animal factory farms and the low quality of meat in the supermarkets. That is why we must change those horrendous conditions nstead of ignoring them That is why I support the Humane Society and other organizations that try to improve conditions in these factory farms. It takes a cold heart and no brains in today's society to look at a helpless animal you have raised and kill it. At least hunters in the past needed skill to hunt down an animal and farmers eked out a living with their farms and animals.
Ilona,
If you are a vegetarian, you certainly have the right to that view. But if you eat meat, you and Dana are either monumentally unaware of the realities of slaughterhouses or batty. I don't know how Zuckerberg kills what he eats, but if there is anything more cruel than lining animals up so that they hear those ahead of them and making them march to their deaths, hauling them up by a rear leg and slitting their throats to bleed them out in a production line, I don't know what it is. And yet nowadays, I also eat that meat because it's what is available,
By the way, if you are one of those who wants to deport illegal Mexicans, go raid a slaughterhouse. No one else wants that work.
Why? He's batsh!t crazy.
If you grow up in a rural area....then this story is as flat as Florida. If you come from the city....this probably seems repulsive because you enjoy the complete disconnection between yourself and your food. If you eat meat, it should not bother you at all if someone chooses to do the deed themself...it gets done either way, and your dinner will always be the victim, that's life in the animal world.
That said, this is a relatively anti social dude that ironically struck it rich being the social media dude.....otherwise, he's just one more weird guy with a lot of $$$.
What bothers me is that he thinks this makes him morally superior. This is as laughable as insisting on only using electricity produced from coal you have personally dug out of a mine.
Geoff, You are one sick SOB. Why would you EVER post a link to your site that shows the active killing of an animal and you are SO PROUD of doing so. Yep, animals are killed by the millions every year for food. You making a joke of it is SICK.
I'm not making a joke of killing animals. It is always traumatic no matter how many times I do it. I am providing some entertainment for my readers, and if you read my blog you would note that I cried the first dozen times I slaughtered my own food. But, luckily, after a while, it does get easier.
I don't think 50% of CNN readers are vegetarians. A bunch of those 50% are hypocrites.
he does this to uphold his pact with the devil
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Alpacas? I hope you are kidding you POS. I use to live in South America that is not what they are used for. They were eaten by mountain people sometimes but they were primarily raised for their wool.
Lila, first of all you guessed the wrong animal. Second, I don't know where you were in South America, but where the alpacas originate, in the Altiplano, they are eaten regularly.
They were not eaten regularly. Guinea Pigs and Frogs were also eaten but not regularly. Once the mountain people had access to more food their diets evolved. Most food from that area has beef, chicken and pig just like here.
Oh BTW if you are going to hide behind a culture to be disgusting, you should adopt all their eating habits. They did not eat meat everyday like we do in the states and they used every part of the animal when they did have it. Their diets had lots of crunchy corn, potatoes and soup. Meat was too expensive to be more than a flavoring or a tiny portion on the side. On special occasions they would eat a larger portion like the way we eat here on a daily basis.
What do me and Mark Zuckerberg have in common? I wish it was our wealth. http://www.montelloalpacacompany.blogspot.com
If I ate meat, I would definitely want to be the one to kill and clean the animal. In my opinion (and others have a right to theirs), this should be the way all people eat their meat. Factory farms are disgusting and unethical, and the easy way to get past the guilt of the process. I don't understand why people above think this is some sort of power trip or are worried about his character. Props to this rich dude who is investing in his food, and not eating the crap fed to most americans through a flawed system.
Don't be silly. You must eat vegetables or something. Do you insist on growing that all yourself? Ever hear of the words "trade" and specialization? Human's do that for a reason, it's more efficient and uses less resources per human for the same standard of living.
To "The Mrs"... So when you can't kill your own food, you buy from the AMISH butcher shop? Like that is something GOOD? The Amish have a long history of cheating people out of money and running some of the most deplorable PUPPY MILLS in the country! And you SUPPORT these people with your dollars? What an IDIIOT!
The people responding to this survey are full of crap. They may buy meat at a grocery store, but nearly 29% of people are NO WAY killing the meat they eat year round. Maybe a fish here and there or (gross) a deer along the way. Hunters and fishermen have very limited seasons to capture their prey. I don't believe for one minute they sustain their families year round on animals they kill. This is just a bunch of chest thumping.
I answered "I already do" because there are animals that kill to eat. That doesn't mean that the vast proportion of the meat I eat was personally killed by me. No more so than the fact that I have a garden and grow my own tomatoes means I get most of my vegetables from my garden. If I fish and gut it myself then I think that counts. Heck anyone who's eaten a live clam should be picking "I already do".
Human's naturally specialize and trade in goods. That's why we don't all grow our own vegetables or kill our own meat, and there is nothing wrong for it. The very fact I buy meat gives the monetary incentive for the farmer to raise and then kill the animals in the first place. If I haven't killed those animals can I at least get credit for putting a "contract" out on their lives?
This whole thing is silly. I insist that Zuck not use any product he doesn't personally club, dig, mine, cut down, or drill for himself. Only then will I take him seriously on this, and then I will think him a complete idiot.
"he's slightly baffled that such attention is being paid to a movement that's not new in the slightest" or Eatocracy keeps writing about it for attention. And no, the way people have been living for generations is not what MZ is doing. He just moved into a multimillion dollar luxury home, he isn't raising pigs and goats int he backyard. He is just slashing the throats, not skinning, chopping or cooking. It's deranged.
I think someone is mad at MARK (ESDR)...Judging from his comments and the name calling...I can tell there is envy and hate...WhyUmadBRO?? LOL
People are so disconnected from reality today that they think that the meat they eat wasnt the direct result of an animal dying by the hands of a person. At least with raising and butchering your own meat you take away the unknowns. Was the animal tortured? Was it fed a healthy and natural diet? Was it kept clean and disease free? Was it butchered properly? Next time you hear of a salmonella or ecoli outbreak, take solice in knowing that Mr. Zuckerberg isnt worrying about such things. I've been fishing since I was a little kid. The best trout is one that went from pole to flame in less than 30 minutes.
You are a sicko!
JoeBlow.... in wyoming we used to do the same with trout and rabbits...... hopping on the lawn one minute, sauteing in mushroom gravy the next....mmmm good
JC you would die with in three days following some sort of natural disaster or end of the world type of scenario.
"The best trout is one that went from pole to flame in less than 30 minutes." Oh man, that is so true!
If you can't be more creative than using someone else's screen name, then post somewhere else.
To those who believe it's wrong to kill an animal for food–you are entitled to your opinions. Go eat your vegetables and tofu whatever and leave the remainder of us alone. I was raised as a child in a home where we had chickens–and ate them and their eggs. We would partner with someone and raise a beef cow–slaughter and butcher and provide both families with the highest quality meats. Just because one can find food in a grocery store does not necessarily mean that it is the best quality–or at its freshest. There is noting like strolling through the garden and taking a basket of vegetables directly into the kitchen for dinner 30 minutes later. God forbid any cataclysm disrupt the food distribution logistics of this country–most of you trendies would starve to death...
but your post is right in step with those people who are pointing out the issue with factory farming. you are 100% correct that it does not produce the freshest or best quality. it's actually quite a twisted industry – bad for animals and people. a lot of vegetarians are born because they take issue with how meat is brought to market, and that's a fair concern. it can't be chalked up to a trend – rather, it is the result of a compilation of unsatisfacotory truths.
The fact still remains that these people would starve to death if they were put in a survival situation. At the same time the average hunter would survive because they know how to live in tune with the land.
...You want a burger? You should have to look the LIVING THING in the eye while it dies.... People don't like to think about that. But it's ethical ... Eating an animal should NEVER be easy and fast....it's death. Close factory farms, live better.
hear hear!
People should not eat anything that has a face, that is unless it's on Facebook.
Poor little rich boy. A self-indulgent fop. Next he will expound on the fact that he changes the oil in his Lambo all by himself. This guy has a terminal case of jerkism.
And oddly enough, Edsr, I'd feel a whole lot more comfortable being stranded on a desert island with Zuckerberg than with you.
I know a lot of people like Mark. They're called hunters. They don't want to eat meat that has hormones and antibiotics from animals grown in feedlots or cages. Maybe he could spend a bit of his money educating people on the harmful effects of processed meats.
Nail on head!!!
Big deal. I've been doing this since I was 7 years old – it's called hunting.
Zuckerberg is disgusting. Meat is murder.
yes it is murder for my food. I say tasty.
Hey Deborah......all meat is murder? Are all your shoes and belts plastic or do you stand around waiting for a cow to die of natural causes? Please stop the holier than thou.
and your a cunt
And plants are being murdered when a farmer rips them from the ground just to satisfy your blood lust for leafy green vegetables. You disgusting killer. You pig.
Children, please. Your McNuggets do not grow in the meat aisle, and chicken breasts are not given willingly during elective reduction surgeries. If you are a committed vegan, you are putting your money where your mouth is and I respect your decision. However, if you are not and still refuse to acknowledge the realities of your food, you are a hypocrite.
If we did not hunt there would be a vast over population of animals, this is part of a checks and balances we maintain with nature. The other benefit is the meat is healthier than store bought meat, and thus better for you. So do not knock on hunters Edsr, your the type of person thats never tried it and hear you are @##ching.
Nature does not need us to control animal populations, so that tired justification proffered by sport hunters can be put to rest. The deer population, for example, does not need us to control their numbers. That's what wolves are for. That's what disease is for. That's what starvation from lack of available food is for. Nature has PLENTY of ways of curbing the overpopulation of any animal without requiring a bunch of fat, half-drunk dudes in bright orange vests and camo jumpsuits playing Larry The Cable Guy's most recent CD in their gigantic Ford 4×4.
Just man up and say you hunt because you enjoy it. Don't feed people some BS about "controlling the population" of [insert game beast here] because it sounds better than, "I like chasing down my meal and watching it die." Or are you afraid of the social backlash you may be faced with from someone who thinks sport hunting is monstrous?
BTW, I'm not a vegetarian. I'm a No BS-itarian.
Besides being woefully uninformed, your attitude is disgusting. You're psycho if you think the way people have been obtaining food since the beginning of humanity is macho. You're like the ones who think breast feeding is third world stuff. You'd do well to get a little education before making such a fool of yourself.
Wow, pick up the remote and change the channel. You paint this steryotypical picture of what you think the average hunter looks like. How about an English professor I had who was highly educated, from a liberal family, however he and his family also hunted all year round. they provided meat for their family all year round. unless you got to know the guy you would never be able to pick him out as a hunter. (like being a hunter is some awful disease)
Do you kill potato plants because you enjoy it?
Ive killed a few chickens thats about it.
What i am really wondering is: DOES ZUCKFACE SKIN AND GUT HIS KILLS HIMSELF OR JUST KILL THEM?
Typical...didn't bother reading the f'n article, did you? Only 3 or 4 paragraphs...really. Try harder, please. And yes, he does. That was the point....The headline didn't say 'MZ Hunts.'
Umm, yeah we have grocery stores, but did you ever check to see where your meat comes from? And who the hell knows what sort of hormones they inject into the animals that are slaughtered for food. I have my own chickens and I know exactly what they are fed. I don't kill my chickens as sport or to feel power over them. I raise them, for the purpose of food.
I grew up on a rural New England farm, and we never bought meat. We only ate meat we had hunted, raised, or helped raise and butcher. Now I live in a city and this is not practical, but last year I did get to help butcher a buffalo with stone tools.
Instead of picking domesticated sheep, let him go out in the woods and wrestle bears or kill a deer with a spear or something to eat it! THAT would be a fair fight.
I do this all the time.... bow hunting is addictive
Have you gone into the woods and wrestled a bear or deer with a spear? If not then STFU. I can't stand the "holier and thou art" crowd. F'ing D bag.
Actually, Edsr, I disagree. Our grocery stores are generally stocked by factory farms – which is a process that completely separates "product" from the actual life cycle of an animal. It seems. Mr. Zuckererg is attempting to get in touch with the truth, and the weight of real food, and to understand the value of a life. Away from the mass production, at least these animals stand a chance to experience a bit of life before their untimely end. If people took the time to learn more about the horror experienced by animals, and the devastating environmental impact to boot, we would undoubtedly eat less meat as a society.
Leslie.............you write like a humanitarian...........the key is less meat and less kill....................your body does not need meat....only outdated text books decry this sham...........
who cares if we need it... you don't *need* internet access, but you have it.
it tastes great, has nutritional value and we are omnivores... so it's not unnatural at all.
if it's not your thing... that's cool, but if you don't respect others for their beliefs no one will respect yours.
also, you've wished for the killing of people posting in this thread... you have no moral grounds to say anything to anyone about killing.
Edsr........ dtboco3....... has...... you........... figured........... out.......... you're....... a......... complete........... fool!!!!!!! oops........ sorry...... I............ meant........... ..............
edsr...seems you have a very low intelligence level. I'll explain this very simply for you. Your body requires proteins to survive and function properly. You also have teeth that are clearly designed for OMNIVOROUS eating. Yes I know that there are proteins in plants, but not nearly in the quantity your body requires, unless you are eating LOTS of plants. As animals, we are simply not designed to be strictly carnivores or strictly herbivores.
Are they serious?!?!?! This is NEWS?!?!?! Somebody slaughters them and puts them in grocery stores. Okay so he skips the middle man, so FREAKING what?!?!? He is still eating the same meat all the rest of us are, what is so odd,great, or interesting about what he is doing?
Actually the meat he is eating is not the same as you and me. That is if you get your meat from the grocery store. That meat is factory farmed.
You are correct, this should not be news. However, there is something about this act of killing the meat you consume that is actually a very powerful thing–He (and others that do so) probably have FAR more respect for the animals that need to be killed in order for him to get the meat. I've heard this story directly from Zuck himself a long time ago and he actually ended up consuming much LESS meat after he decided to make this a goal.
So think about it. On one hand, you have grocery store meat consumers who have absolutely no idea how their meat makes it to the store–Oblivious to the conditions of the farms, the treatment of the animals, and everything else that the meat industry hides from them to produce maximum profits. On the other hand you have people like Zuck who are able to completely understand that eating meat comes with a price (the death of a living creature whose right to a happy life was forcefully taken away by us). This isn't about feeling macho. Its about realizing that there is something morally wrong about eating meat that you are only able to consume because the slaughter is hidden from your sight and then making an honest effort to try to reconcile the natural desires to consume meat and the sacrifice of the animal that must give it up.
Perhaps an authority should slaughter Zuckerberg and feed him to the ravening hordes. Meat with a list price of $ 25 billioon must be a joy to the human palate.
Not a big deal to prepare your own meal this way if you have the time and energy to do so. This is the way to ensure freshness of your food.
If I lived with Mark I would certainly sleep with one eye open....humans will be next on his list because he is in the kill only for the thrill................he is wealthy from smart business moves but...he is still a PUNK! Wonder if his parents had any children who lived and if his parents are alive do they live in fear because of his nasty habit of killing for the sake of killing........God should hit him in the head with a thunderbolt!
You sir, are a complete moron. Do you have any personal experience with Mark that would lead to your erroneous statements? Didn't think so. You don't know him, so don't act like it.
Take a joke dude!
Edsr is not a moron. Zuckerberg is killing because he feels gives him power.
Travis.................I don't know you either.......but............I do not make it a practice to meet or know new underage idiots who are still wet under the ears...........
Edsr is a moron. Millions of people have and continue to kill their own meat; because MZ has celebrity status, he's fair game for the loons like edsr to criticize.
@ bobthecat If you had read the article you would see that Mark is taking this so called project on as a way to understand where our food comes from. Stop being an idiot and read more than two paragraphs before you make a comment.
Indians didn't kill for the thrill; they killed for the food. They considered themselves one with nature, because they understood their place in the circle of life. They didn't just go into the store and pick up a plastic wrapped loaf of ground meat without thinking of where it came from.
I admire Mark for standing on his principles. He isn't trying to hide the fact that he likes to eat meat. He is trying to be responsible for the meat he eats.
For those that say that eating meat isn't necessary for survival, I would say in my case their wrong. If I had to eat rabbit food all the time, I would become so depressed I would blow my head off.
BTW just because a person is a vegetarian doesn't mean your not responsible for the death of an animal. Do you know how many animals get killed by harvesters each year on wheat farms?
The only way you'd ever "live" with Mark is if you were his domestic servant. Too bad your parents didn't practice birth control. The best part of you ran down your mama's leg.
Haha, That last part made my crap my pants.
I disagree with you, just on the off chance that God is smarter than you; And I believe he said it's killing for eating sake, not killing for killing sake. If you have ever eaten meat, chances are someone along the line "killed it" first, if not, I am sorry for you
the above reply was to Edsr
This is not 1820...........we have grocery stores..........people who kill animals today for food are just hunting to kill because it is a power syndrome thing.............macho man..........if you want to make it a sport....throw down your weapon and jump in the underbrush and take on the animal hand to hand like a MAN.....this rich kid is a WIMP!
I kill my own food, not a power trip, it's just food to me and I like that I can do it and clean it and put it on the table my family love it.
That is because like Mark.....you also are preoccupied with KILLING......therefore you are NOT a man.................you just think you are............teach your kids to kill.............you are a great role model..............hopefully you will poison yourself on your kill someday................
Hopefully Edsr will go walking in the woods one day without hunter oranges. BANG – whoops – end of Edsr. End of problem. Eat more meat!!!
Vegetarian: Native American word which means, "Doesn't hunt well."
Edsr,
Actually the best tasting turkey I had was a wild one. Same goes for the best fish.
Processing your own meat is becoming a lost art. I grew up hunting and raising animals on a farm where we butchered our own animals. In the last years I've expanded into more than just cutting up roasts, steaks and hamburger into the realm of sausage making and smoking meats and poultry. It's not about having a power trip, but is truly empowering to know that I did it and my family and friends enjoy the food that we produce. Having a cheese and sausage tray with a varity of tasty elk sausage that I personally processed for our guests is something I take pride in. The food we eat is not only the only healthy benifit, but the hunting is itself a healthy activity. Hiking miles at at 9000 feet to get to where the elk are and then carrying it back out of the mountains is something that is very physically demanding and requires that you exercise to be in good physical shape as well.
I'd say people who hunt just so they'll have some antlers to hang on the wall are more into "macho man" than Zuckerberg. At least he's making use of the animal by eating it. And unless you're a vegetarian, you should get off your high horse. Whatever meat you eat is probably slaughtered in worse ways that however Zuckerberg kills his.
Actually, many people still hunt for food because it's an inexpensive way to feed their families. Have you seen the prices in the grocery stores lately? Then there are all the drugs and hormones some of that meat is injected with. Don't have that problem with wild game.
Although I don't dispute that the meat is likely a bit healthier, I do think saying you're saving money is a stretch. With all of the equipment, time off work, gas, etc., I am really doubtful that in the end, you're saving anything.
Time off work? Hunting -is- work. You sit in a cubicle so you can earn Federal Reserve Notes so you can spend them on food. Or... you go hunting and cut out the Federal Reserve Notes. There is no difference. Everything we do is to live.
Cost of Hunting License=10.00 (for 2 deer) Cost of ammo=0.50 per bullet Cost of gas=15.00 Cost of +/-150 all natural venison=26.00(17 cents a pound). I hunt on my days off.
I personally eat fresh kill for the taste, the price, and for the health of my family. My family hunt deer, elk, and wild turkey. All our other meats come from Amish butcher shops and "fresh kill" shops. I refuse to feed my family meat flavored hormones laden with a side of antibiotics, and dashed with a sprinkle of deadly chemical.
Hand to hand....seriously....... so if i go in without my brain, does that mean that they have to go out in the wild without their camo, speed, claws, sense of smell, hearing, and sight....get real...... on another note, i sure am glad that meat shows up in the grocery store and no animals have to be killed........ btw........ hunting also reduces populations to sizes that are better supported by the resources available to them....hello.....
Actually this is how you get fresh meat.
Fresh meat is eaten by ghouls....vampires.....and creeps.........your body does NOT need meat..........you can live on meatless meals and not only survive but also avoid being a FAT pig with a big gut!
@Edsr: I refuse to end up like Archie Bunker's friend Ralph who had a heart attack while he was jogging home from the health food store.
Yes, Edsr... you -can- deny your nature, or... you can embrace it. Try looking in the mirror and check out those teeth you have. You were not designed to be a vegetarian. Stop hating yourself.
Oh and what, animals don't die for the meat to get in the grocery stores? If you eat meat, an animal is killed for it. What does which year it is have anything to do with it? What difference does it make who kills it? I give him props for seeking to live a more authentic life and not delude himself into your apparent thinking that meat just mysteriously and harmlessly appears in the grocery cooler all cut up neat and tidy and automatically wrapped in plastic. Sounds like you should be putting a little more thought into where YOUR food comes from.
I want to suck your blood,without the plastic wrap.It dulls my fangs.
lol @ Trip, That's how Edsr shoots his load.
It's ignorant and rude to post under someone else's screen name. Be creative and find your own name to post under.
However, Zuckerberg merely stated: "This year I've basically become a vegetarian, since the only meat I'm eating is from animals I've killed myself."
Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20066886-71.html#ixzz1Nc03EOas
Hunting is simply the practice of being self reliant. I am sorry you are too much of a pussy to do it as well, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that its just not your thing. Just remember your life style is one of convenience, mine hones a skill that you have lost. It is a way of life were I come from.
j.......................please place the tip of the barrel of your shotgun in your mouth and jerk the trigger..........make sure there are deer slugs in it of course.......the world won't miss you very much.......in fact they may applaud your demise...........
J, I really don't like calling people names, but Edsr is just too big of a self righteous pussy not to come out and say it.
The only thing Edsr has ever jerked is "off".
Edsr, I'm amazed you don't like hunting, considering you are murdering the english language right now. How many periods do you need after a sentence? You do realize that just one will do........................ don't you? Also, you are full of hate and sad.
Edsr : You obviously know nothing about guns..............jerk the trigger?
Amazing. You encourage the death of a human being because he does not share your opinion on what constitutes animal cruelty? It is you who are the monster. You are a psychopath.
You forgot your meds, again. Please make a note about that.
Something about those who live in glass houses.....
If you knew how your grocery store meat got there, then you would hunt your own food as well. I'd rather have mine without all the extra hormones and antibiotics please!!!
I have the replies to your comment, and your subsequent replies.
I have come to the conclusion… that you, mam.... are a douche.
You sir are a wimpy, person who wants people to only see your point of view, what's wrong with eating meat...? There's definitely positives to it. Additionally if there's an Apocolypse your ass will be an epic failure!
Where do you think the grocery stores get their meat from? My neighbors who raise beef, and hogs. My husband hauls them to the slaughter house. They are then killed, dressed, then sent to GROCERY STORES! Same application goes for veggie and fruit.
Are you serious? You think its sick to kill your own food, but buying it at a grocery store isnt? The meat you buy at a grocery store comes from an animal that was held in a cell no bigger than its body, and never once saw the light of day. Thats more humane than letting an animal live its life before you kill it? You are extremely unintelligent.
Hahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaaa have you ever visited anywhere outside your own town? Come to Nebraska and observe your beef chowing its grass along the side of any road. Then we'll talk again about it being held in a cell and never seeing the light of day.
I'd like to throw people like EDsr in the middle of a jungle with nothing but a ka-bar to see if this person even lasts a day.
Please tell me exactly how those little sausage and steak fillet end up on your dinner plate? So, you think you are taking the high road by eating meat that others had killed, slaughtered, and whom did the dirty work for you? So what makes you think you are no less guilty, self righteous little fiend? Real men had been hunting and killing for thousands of years for food and to feed their families, and ignorant fools like you are the ones who would starve and beg others for food in the event of disasters. Do me a favor and go to youtube and do a search on cattle slaughter to take a look at how they slaught them cows and pigs that you eat. Just imagine how the animal end up on your plate the next time you thank the lord for your dinner. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEAtaLp137E
Killing an animal does not imply a killer instinct. We've been doing it for thousands of years, and we're not all mass murderers. If Mark wants to kill his own animals, he has every right to do so – I'm sure seeing the meat go from the carcass to the table gives one a certain "peace of mind".
I do believe mark has some paranoid delusions about "someone else touching his meat.
You're a joke man. You completely missed the point. This so called rich wimp as you have labeled him is trying to take responsibility for his actions. He even said that since he has started this project he has been eating a lot more healthy food. Less meat than previously. You Edsr need to put the punch down and start to think for yourself. stop doing what your liberal hippie socialist handlers tell you to do. Try to think for yourself for once in your life. You say we have grocery stores now a days you're right and you take that for granted. Grocery stores have been around for quite some time they didn't just pop up like ten years ago. There are a lot of people that cannot provide food for themselves on the low wages they earn and rely on food banks to put food on the table when they have lean months. I know in certain parts of the country food banks rely heavily on hunters. As for your comments about hunters being preoccupied with killing, I say BS man. By that same logic farmers are preoccupied with killing as well. Plants are living things just like animals. Just because plants don't read or write or make or listen to music, etc... does not make them any less of a living thing. So I say based on your logic that Farmers are preoccupied with killing. If people want to hunt let them hunt. 99% of hunters are better conservationist and live "greener" and more in tune with the planet than the vast majority of those that oppose hunting.
Hunting for your own food is perfectly normal and has been done since the beginning of time. You can buy your meat in the grocery stores, but if you don't have to fill yourself with extra hormones and probably disease ridden meat, why should you? And I say disease ridden meat because of the conditions that the animals have to live in, waiting to be slaughtered. At least in the wild, the animals have a chance to run away. They're not assembled in a line waiting to get their throats slit. And they're not shoulder to shoulder in cages with no room to move. Wild meat is healthier for you than store bought meat. Just as home grown produce is better than what you get in stores. Actually, I think that hunting is more humane than the slaughter house method!
True, Edsrtein .... we have grocery stores. Apparently, though, we don't have one like yours where the meat comes from animals that were not killed.
I am am a 62 year old man who has never considered my self on any "power trip" or macho thing I have hunted and killed my own meat all my life. You dont know good meat untill you have fresh meat without all the added garbage. I also taught my son, daughter nicecs and nephues to do the same. We are all ,I believe, well adjusted "normal" human beings. Our cattle are well taken care of if not pampered they live a great life up to the very quick as possible end.
Edsr, one time, I shot this deer in the back. Horribly placed shot but it dropped like a sack of taters. I walk up to it. It jumps up and runs to the bottom of the draw(down south they call 'em hollers). I aim and fire. I had ran out of shells. You know what I do Edsr? I chase that wounded deer down and challenge him in hand-to-hoof combat. I don't know if you know anything about wounded animals Edsr, but even Steve Erwin new better than to mess with a wounded animal.
Like I said Edsr, I hit him in the back so he's a limp'n good. He can make it down the hill only by running straight. Thing is, when he gets to the bottom he can't make it up. I'm hot on his trail. He's a struggling!!! He's a struggling!!! He looks back and I swing my empty gun at him, catching him in the head withe the barrel. I hit him so hard I realize that I may end up busting the barrel off of the stock. I flip the gun around. Holding the stock I ready to hit the deer with the butt of the stock. He's on the move. He's running down the creek bed, looking for a way out of this trap in the bottom of the draw. I catch up to him. I'm fast. I hit him in the back of the neck with the gun. He's stunned. I front kick him over. Junky legs, lol. I jump on him and slit his throat with my knife. I wish I could tell you I was man enough to eat the heart while it was still warm and beating, but I didn't. However, had I known six years ago that I would respond to a comment posted by a complete lunatic, I most definitely assure you that I would have at least swallowed one bite with at least five chews.
1. What? Do you think your food magically appears at the grocery store? You DO realize someone is slaughtering it I hope. Who cares if he wants to slaughter his own or buy from someone else who’s already done it?
2. Last time I watched animal planet.. the animals didn’t throw down their weapons before trying to kill one another.
3. Droning on about what a wimp someone is over the internet just makes you sound pathetic.
Well, have fun getting cancer and/or heart disease from the over-processed, bacteria-infested, hormone-ladden meat you eat from your friendly, neighborhood grocery. I'll stick to natural meat which I actually know the origins of, thank you. (:
There aren't many places, in America or abroad, where an animal you kill in the wild hasn't been exposed to toxins from industrial pollution, not to mention natural diseases. Farm-raised meat may have issues as well, but at least its screened for certain contaminants. Not necessarily saying it's better, though... so pick your poison.
Clear case of troll envy.
I can't stop laughing at some of the comments here, but this one is the best....Killing animals ourselves is all about power? Huh? So you want me to go to the grocery store and buy meat from there? What did the animals there chop themselves up? Didn't someone have to kill them? Do you not see the problem with this statement? Hunting, fishing and farming are all ways which people live off the land. We don't have to pay taxes (a big bonus) and the food has no hormone treatments (if hunting in the wild and not on game farms). Teaching children where our food comes from gives them more respect for life than teaching them to just go to the store to buy the prepackaged meat. They see animals as an important part of our lives. To be respected. Yes we kill them, but we don't kill more than we can eat. (Unlike grocery store that have to throw out 1000lb's every year to waste). My husband and son have both taken up hunting. They will only bring home one kill. That one kill will feed our family for 6 months (meat portion). My son, when he grows up, will have an inexpensive way to provide for his family.
Yeah, let's all buy meat from the store where no animals had to die for it....
Oh wait..... *lightbulb*....
I don't enjoy hunting, but I go with my family and fiance. Why? Because I'd much rather eat hunted game meat than feed-lot livestock meat from the grocery store. If I can't eat hunted game, then I prefer buying meat from local farmers and ranchers that grass-feed their livestock and raise them in pasture. Yes, occasionally I do buy grocery store meat, but I try to minimize it.
1) It's MORE HUMANE. The animal lived a better life. And if my family or I killed it, I know it had as quick and painless of a death as possible.
2) It's healthier. Free of hormones. Wild game and pastured livestock are also leaner and significantly higher in Omega-3s.
If you think buying meat from the grocery store is better and more ethical, you have been woefully misled.
This has got to be one of the weirdest PR stunts in a long time.
if you read his bio. which i dont suggest you do, he has been like that his whole life... so assuming its a PR stunt is a false assumption.... not to mention, what in the world could Facebook gain from a 'PR Stunt' such as u suggest?
So he's been at these PR stunts all his life.
It's not a PR stunt as you say. It's more of just a bit of information about him. Once you get so rich or so famous, people will start eating up anything they possibly find out about that person. I only clicked on this article because I was hoping there would be legitimate information or tips about how to debone various animals to eat. I guess I was wrong.
I love to cook and it is probably healthier for you to cook what you kill.. no fillers, added by products.. just like living on a farm.. and I wish I had a chef to cook it for me!but alas, I have to cook for myself. I use this hilarious cookbook my friend got me for Xmas.. I won't tell you the name of it here cause some of you will freak out on me.. it's a bit Un-PC.. but if you have a good sense of humor and don't get offended easily.. google "whippped and beaten culinary works" to find it.. but seriously.. don't go if you can't take a good joke!
@Laura – You have used this site for sooooooo long to promote your nasty nasty thing you try to call a cook book. Please, go buy a can of spam and learn how to cook that and quit embarrassing yourself with that stupid piece of trash.
OMG.. that was so funny Lara!
I totally agree. Why doesn't he just become a vegetarian. I am thinking of it. Meat is loaded with all kinds of hormones, etc. anyway. Why not just eat other things that provide protein and let animals live. Oh, I have an idea!!! Instead of eating animals and sucking the money out of every countries people, why not figure a way for people to fly off to a planet that isn't full of wasteful sludge that we created so they could live responsibly on that one. We really are destroying our world and living like mongers too. What he's doing is just part of it.
humans eat meat! doing so with humanely and with thought is the proper way. respecting other peoples opinions and philosophies is also proper.... something most vegetarians (and religious fanatics) don't understand!
One reason people like to hunt or raise their own meat is to be able to avoid the hormones and antibiotics, as well as the unnecessary layers of fat deliberately put onto beeves in feed lots. Like raising your own fruits and vegetables, it's a way to control the quality of your food. But people who view this as being quirky are clearly out of touch with reality. The fact that modern urban dwellers find it either necessary or more convenient to let other people grow their food for them doesn't relegate that job to a weird or dysfunctional status any more than would going to a restaurant where someone else cooks for you. Being a hunter, gardener, or butcher is no less honorable or than being a chef.
One word: overpopulation. Some animals just need to die.
Why doesn't he become a vegetarian? Because he is smart. You are not.
Because we were designed to eat meat.. That's why
Plants have life too and killing them to eat is equally bad according to you. So should we all stop eating anything that lives and live off the fruits that fell to the ground..??
You are right on track, Shirley. Look at the ridiculous reactions you are getting for simply wanting to explore it. Human animals are the ones that are frighteningly overpopulating the planet. We humans only started to eat meat during the ice age, so very recently. It was always just a part of what we ate, but now people gorge themselves on it so much that they die of Cancer, Heart Disease, Obesity because they are too stubborn to consider anything else. And if you can't "stomach" killing an animal, there is probably a good reason. It's called a conscience.
Isn't that the point of slaughtering his own food? So he can choose animals that are not pumped up full of anti biotics and steroids? He basically lives a vegetarian diet. Kudos to Zuckerberg for doing something most people couldn't handle, yet is something humans have been doing thousands of years.
Great idea to send our masses off to another planet so that we could annihilate it as well. What delicious form of life (intelligent or not) would we find there, I wonder?
Shirley. . . GREAT IDEA!
I wonder if grilling or frying will be better for cooking our aliens!
@MSK
"We humans only started to eat meat during the ice age, so very recently. It was always just a part of what we ate, but now people gorge themselves on it"
1. Contradiction fail.
You need more protein in your diet. Here let me buy you a hamburger.
(btw, there is no way to know that. You might want to study up on how rare fossils really are, to say nothing of those preserved well enough to both contain the stomach and its contents. )
2. So are you really suggesting that anyone who has to slaughter an animal for food and doesn’t cry over it has no conscience? My my.. what would your grandmother have to say about that?
How in the world is this different than fishing, and cooking up what you eat? Congrats to him for making it more personal – maybe it's a PR stunt, but what I don't get is why people are all so offended about this. My dad raised chickens in their back yard, tons of kids I know have gone fishing and cooked them up. I've seen squirrels shot with BB guns and eaten, rabbits, and yes, when you kill a dear you eat it. The personal slaughtering thing might be a little interesting, but I've often wondered if it would make you appreciate the meal more or not.
How do you think we arrived at our 10 cc brain? The fact is our metabolism is better at processing meat than any other food stuff. Our bodies have been geared for this diet for millions of years, since our ancestors first came down from the trees. The fruits, vegetables, and grains our good for fiber intake and some vital nutrients, but meat has always been the mainstay. Our ancestors where able to acquire many vital nutrients from animal organ meat far easier than what was obtained by gathering. It is with the advent of processed foods that we have seen our collective health start to deteriorate. In the island of Sardinia where my parents and ancestors hail from, meat is a large part of their diet and many of them live into their hundreds. My own grandmother was 97 before she died due to her doctor proscribing her drugs that had fatal interactions. A balanced diet minus processed foods is healthy and this includes meat.
take the tin foil off your head
Or the world could herd all the veggans on to space ships and send them to distant planets and land them into volcanoes where their wandering souls will first reappear on land – in clams. They'll be happy vegans then.
Why would he become a vegetarian? What he is doing is making a responsible choice to raise his own food for meat. Our ancestors have done this for centuries – all small family farms, most ranchers, many who live in the country. We have raised chickens for eggs and meat, rabbits for meat, and hunted for venison for years. It is clean a, hormone free, healthy way to eat.
How utterly ridiculous. We are omnivores and have been forever. We need meat and fat to be healthy. Vegans develop osteoporosis at absurd rates. You are spouting left wing propaganda that has no basis in fact. If you want to be vegan, have fun but don't tell me how to live. We are going to lose our tolerance of your intolerance one of these days.
"We really are destroying our world and living like mongers too."
Shirley ... maybe I'll agree with you that we might be "destroying our world" ... but did you really mean to say that we are "living like people who sell things?" Because ... uhhh ... that's what you said. HUH?
Hi Shirley,
You can have a delicious, varied diet as a vegetarian. Giving up meat motivates you to try different foods, cooking methods, and cuisines. It actually opens up your culinary world in a big way. :) (Vegetarian for 3 years and loving it!)
All the best!
Just a spoiled billionaire who probably doesn't have sex enough....kill your own food.....Really?
don't knock it till you try it....
Eat meat from a grocery store? really? Animals that were probably kept in horrible conditions and are given hormones to make them grow faster? Also, wild game meat is much healthier than beef or pork. If you don't wish to give it a try that is fine, but why put down others for something you clearly don't understand?
dtboco3 is spot on. Believe me, after seeing how animals live and are treated at corporate farms, you will never – EVER – think someone who hunts to eat is sadistic again. What you get in grocery stores comes from a hell you can't even imagine.
Honestly he sounds bored to me and just wanted to try it for the thrill. I think people are just overthinking what he did.He is an educated man and couldn't possibly be that detached from his food that he doesn't know where it comes from. Probably trying to get in touch with is "caveman side"..Too much technology can get get boring after a while.
@Ruth
lol ...You said it yourself... he is a BILLIONAIRE .. he is getting more than you. If he isn't it is because he choosing not to.
SURVEY SAYS.... 29.99% DO IT majority that took survey
Anyone who attacks President Obama is a racist and a bigot
'Nuff said.
The only well hung negro I've ever seen was hangin' from a tall oak tree.
Mamie: I hope you are investigated by the FBI and arrested. As for the conversation, three things turned me vegetarian: 1) I hunted and killed 3 animals; 2) the disgusting, barbaric truths of factory farming; and 3) I see all animals as equals to humans. I do not chastise my meat-eating counterparts, and I do have a ton of respect for those who grow, raise, or hunt their own food. I can support any form of sustainable living that eliminates the suffering of animals, the suffering of the environment, and the suffering of those who eat the products of unsustainable farming practices.
The FBI is arresting people for making racist jokes? Why haven't they locked up Chris Rock? I hope you aren't serious in thinking for one minute that the FBI would waste their time searching blogs for racist jokes to investigate.
@Steve: Those animals you see as being equal to humans don't have any problem eating other animals. Why are you so opposed to nature?
Mamie, really you feel this way? Seriously really. With a name like Mamie. We the mud people are waiting on you at the hospital and we all know how you act when it is time for you to die.
LaShaun,
While I do not agree with Mamie's Racist Joke, I feel the need to address your comment "anyone that attacks Obama is a racist and a bigot" is a very ignorant statement. Could it be possible that someone could disagree with Obama for another reason besides his skin color? What if someone wanted our troops to come home and they are angry with the president because our soldiers are still being attacked and killed because they are still occupying other countries?
Turning someone into a "racist" or a "bigot" is just as bad as being a racist or a bigot yourself. And when I say "ignorant" I do not mean that as an insult, but by the definition which is "un-eductated". I hope this sheds some light on your verbiage you decide to use in the future, because your current vocabulary only serves to make you look bad.
I imagine your reply may be "Obama got Osama", but I remind you at the cost of American lives to do so. Sending an Army (into the wrong country at that) did not kill Osama, but our special forces. Osama could have been taken out with a small force a long time ago (and I was military intelligence so please do not reply to that unless you have some actual grounds/facts to stand on).
A good day to you.
LaShaun, What a narrow minded view. Apparently you are racist. Most critics focus on his ability to make decisions that affect the world and the US citizens. Get informed you sound uninformed and uneducated.
Whoa Mamie,You done gots da white folks all riled up :)))))))))))
I can see him hanging from my front porch.
Anyone who attacks Sarah Palin is misogynist and redneckphobe!!!
Zuckerberg should be named as Suckerberg, because this barbarian thing he does sucks bigtime .F***ing bas***d . A***ole.
I'll bet you have a facebook account, though.
Don't you?
HAHAHAHAHAHAH
classic
I don't think this is a PR stunt, he makes more money in a week that you and I will make in our lived. Ill bet that he wasn't looking for any publicity but the news media got hold of this and sensationalized it. Many people kill animals for food but I guess when your a billionaire your supposed to only eat in gourmet restaurants and killing your food is weird. I do not see any real story here.
He's affraid someone will poison him.
its most be suck if u want a cheeseburger for lunch
People do this all the time, it's pretty normal. A lot of people even consider it a sign of respect to the animal to make sure their killed humanly and painlessly...rather then get meat from a mass produced meat factory.
Maybe it has something to do with Orthodox Judaism?
Billionaire got bored and needed a hobby....
Even though I do enjoy a steak now and then, IF I had to kill my food I would be a vegan. I have never intentionly killed an animal and never will. It is something that has followed me all my life. I am a very soft hearted person, I guess I was born that way. It is not something I chose to be. Life would be so much easier if I was hard hearted.
Jesuz....is this guy trying f***up his IPO. There's one thing about Oprah,Bill Gates,Larry Ellison and other the recent billionaires of the later 20th century. Limited access to their personnel lives. Very little. Not sure how this would hurt facebook....but considering they probably have a vegetarian audience thats ithe deep in the millions, I couldn't imagine it helping facebook. Somethings are better off not being said.
As long as he doesn't follow with humans he can do anything his little heart desires...