 July 26th, 2011
05:00 PM ET
5@5 is a daily, food-related list from chefs, writers, political pundits, musicians, actors, and all manner of opinionated people from around the globe. There is a newer, more popular kid on the block - and he can grow a beard. When Andrew Knowlton, the Restaurant and Drinks editor of Bon Appétit magazine, was recently asked if goat meat was the next darling of the culinary world, this is what he had to say:
And Jessica Wilson, who is the executive chef of the appropriately named Goat Town restaurant, might be bleating with joy to hear that. Five Reasons to Consider the Goat: Jessica Wilson It's flavorful in a different way than traditional meats. And as with any meat, wherever you source from – and how much the goat is being worked - is going to factor into the taste. If they’re not out there running around and constantly grazing, if it’s brought up in a way that’s not right, that body of meat is going to be tougher. It's got to be relaxed and able to do its own natural processes." 2. Take advantage of it - it's there! If you haven't cooked it before, I would recommend definitely curing it, even just short a cure of sugar, salt and aromatics - something to seal in the juices before you cook. I would also recommend putting it on the grill to get a char before you braise it, instead of browning it in a sauté pan." 3. Nutritious and delicious The cholesterol levels in it are also very low for traditional meat. It’s very high in iron, and for someone like myself who is slightly anemic and needs that extra iron, you get high amounts of iron in goat. There’s a lot of calcium in it; there are lower sodium levels as well. There are lots of health benefits! It's leaner than chicken, lamb, pork, beef – it doesn’t need a lot of seasoning either because there is a lot of natural flavor. And then you have the milk, which is a whole other thing." 4. Go(a)t milk? The calcium level is a little bit purer - there’s not as much processing to it. And goat milk, as with cow milk, definitely aids in strengthening bones." 5. It's always been around Sure, goat might be kind of an unfamiliar place to go or maybe you had goat meat before when it was really tough, but the flavor in it is amazing. As with anything, even if you had it once before, you should at least revisit it one more time." Is there someone you'd like to see in the hot seat? Let us know in the comments below and if we agree, we'll do our best to chase 'em down. |
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Lamb's my favorite red meat, actually, so I'm game. But it's not something one comes across everywhere. I don't think I've ever seen it in a store.
Speaking of goat, anyone care to eat Lindsay Lohan?
That made me barf.
I raise rabbit to eat. It's great and very lean.
I've never eaten goat, but I would definitely like to try it. I would buy one to raise for meat if I had the room.
"Would you, could you with a goat?"
More BANG for your Buck! @ Earl: goats cannot digest cedar or pine needles. You may want to clear that from the woods
Human beings are omnivores. Our dentition is clearly evolved to eat plants and animals. In my home we have days when we eat vegetarian and days when we eat meat, for purely environmental reasons. We eat animals that have been raised and slaughtered humanely: free range chickens, cage free eggs, grass-fed beef, bison, etc. It all tastes better, it's lower in fat and it has fewer additives, carcinogens and contaminants. As survivor of three forms of cancer, this is very important to me. It would be better for all humans to eat more vegetarian meals for the sake of their health and for the sake of the environment.
Human beings outnumber rats on the planet. You and I are more numerous than vermin. This emotional appeal to stop eating animals because they feel pain or because they're cute turns off many of the people who see it. Factory animals wouldn't exist if it weren't for the demand for food, did you ever think of that? Piglets are born because people want to eat pork. Were it not for the demand for meat, there wouldn't be calves or piglets or chicks born each day and reared on farms for their appearance and cute appeal. Nor would there be kids (baby goats).
and your point would be?
I don't see any reason to add another animal to the list of those that I eat. If anything, I prefer to remove living creatures from my diet.
I love goat curry. And I love goat cheese. Just not together.
Goat is yummy, especially in curry or the goat soup that they sell in certain ethnic restaurants..
Are you talking a traditional goats head "soup" like its made and served in Iraq? That was one of the most shocking ethnic dishes I've eaten. It wasn't bad, but I've never felt compelled to try to recreate the experience. I've never particularly cared for eye balls, and those are considered one of the best parts of the dish. I'd almost agree, because they don't taste like goat :)
I wrote a blog about eating goat... penningtonsfoodstory.blogspot.com Check it out!
So is that a yes or do i have to wait until the morning? i am such a lost little goat and need to be found from my honey who loves me!
I am the lonely goat and need some TLC now. can you come get me please...
my mother in law makes a tomato based sauce with goat and for the sake of my sanity, i thank the lawd for her and my husband. goat is delicious, flavorful and lean – the way she makes it, the meat is so tender and just delicious. she even makes black eye peas with the meat stock. also, fried goat tossed with curry is to die for nibble. i request it when we visit and she feeds my addiction during the holidays.
I have two pet goats. I love them but not because they taste good! I will have to hide this terrible article from them. My little goaties come first, please don't eat goats.
This is awful....just when we're making some progress against eating meat (which is not necessary in near the volumes we consume it), CNN tries to get a story by interviewing some chef who says that goat meat is "in".
People, there are no longer "farms"–there are ANIMAL FACTORIES that produce the chickens, pigs, cows you eat. I used to work on a small farm in Missouri many years ago....they've all been taken over by corporate farms. Don't buy into this story's hype about how great goat meat is for you...all meat is high in cholesterol and fat and it's unnecessary to eat it, esp. in the quantities we do. CNN is just trying to drum up a story;they don't care about animal welfare OR your health. Don't fall for this hype.
LOL, where do you get your information?! There are still many farms! I live in Missouri and frequently go back to Kansas to visit family, there are tons of farms.
Yes, they are smaller than the factory-farm operations, but you can buy meat/livestock directly from many farmers (usually a 1/4 or 1/2 the animal) or buy from farmers when they set up at local farmer's markets. Here in Kansas City there's a business that obtains and distrubutes local meat once a week, I buy from them every few months, it's' all from local pastured livestock, you just sign up for a package and they deliver it to your doorstep.
Mexican style goat chili is hella badass.
Goat meat is called mutton in south asian countries and is often cooked on festive occasions. Mutton Biryani and Mutton curry is quite popular.You can buy them from a few Indian grocery stores. Its a lot flavorful than Lamb and beef.
i love lamb.its tastier than beef.i always fry it on dry pan without oil and eat it with plain white rice and some fresh green vegetable...enough to make me happy.
but beware of malaysian goat. unlike lamb, this guy can put you in ICU if you have heart problem, really fast. malaysian goat is known for its strong smell and after taste and its high content of cholesterol . it is also considered to be very 'hot', so never eat it together with durian or else you will collapse.
Eat that goat....before it eats you.
Peddling FEAR like a typical GOP? You must be a fear monger just like delusional, bunker mentality Dick Cheney. Goats don't scare me!
Calderetta, masarap!
The goat above pictured disagrees completely with the article below featured.
How? You didn't explain.
You doubt GOAT have no personality of their own? Let me ask you this:- Do you have personality of your own?
You're the odd man out on this one.
I have raised goats since 1978. Milk is magical; meat is delicious. Strangely enough, my surname in German translates to goat. Cow milk is homogenized – look up xanthene oxidase and find out why it is killing you. Enough said.
Had goat once at an Indian restaurant. It was pretty d4mn tasty!
I needed 6 reasons to eat that goat, oh well.
It's tasty!!!! That's why.
Awww! That goat is so cute, how could anyone kill and eat it.
Why I should not eat goat? It is incredibly expensive.
Narrrrrh! It's the usual GOP peddling nonsense of price hikes in goat meats so that they could get you to eat their induced fat cows full of doping chemicals to get you sick on their death squad health plan. Take it from me, you can buy goat meat with pennies from your piggy bank.
That goat has freaky eyes!
Oh please! You just jealous! You're picking on a cute goat that is doing all it can to pose for a photo. It takes goal skills to pose for such a shot. Jealousy kills lazy the cat. Pick someone of your size. Will ya! Whew, some people.
MEAT IS MURDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tasty, tasty murder.
Quick! Hide the evidence!
That would be YOUR opinion, Flower. Other opinions differ.
I would be willing to try goat. A friend from India told me her husband makes an excellent curried goat, and another friend uses goat milk paneer in her recipes. Too bad it's so hard to find!
There's much more to goat than the meat. I've been celebrating goat for years: http://bit.ly/r7jlpH
Well if that rocks your goat celebrated boat. We can't complain. Enjoy!
I don't find it often, but I love goat when I can. I'm in Texas so I can often find it at more authentic Mexican places focusing on interior Mexico style dishes.
A vegetarian diet is low fat and sustainable. The industry tried to promote ostrich and failed. Now goat? This is a burger-and fries nation. And obese. Why doesn't anyone just want to promote more veggies?
You must have missed the news about China all covered with Green veggie Algae.
FYI: CNN took a FULL page Ad. to promote your favorite Chines Green veggie Algae. Check your local Chinese Restaurant near you for as meal. Will ya?
because a strict vegan diet is not healthy
Back when I was a kid in the 1960's Americas diet was far more fatty and unhealthy by todays standards. Yet people were much healthier, thinner and far more attractive. People these days are fat because of a lazy lifestyle and also because of the fact it is socially acceptable to be fat. No one wanted that label back in the day. Blame it on political correctness.
Have lived in Haiti now for almost 4 years. I have a great appreciation for goats. They are the poor man's cow and they are everywhere here in Haiti. They thrive here. They are only raised as meat animals due to the lack of refridgeration.
They have great personalities and they taste great. The first to be eaten here are the Billies. You don't need but a few happy Billies to keep the ladies pumping out the kids. Twins are common and there are occasional triplets.
Pin
Disgusting! Stop eating meat and killing innocent animals. They feel pain like we all do. I would rather eat a human meat than a animal. I would love to see a human factory farm one day. Then only we will realize how these animals are treated. Shame on us humans...when will be evolve? Killing animals are like hitler's holocaust. Animals are like jews and humans are like hitler. Shame on us!!!
this dudes funny... he says lets eat people, i say we start with him! me first, me first!
anyone for seconds?
As the Roma descendent of a Holocaust survivor, I find your comment unbelievable. Do you recall the exact moment you took leave of your senses? Or, are you just some naive kid who can't let go of their anthropomorphic fantasies and accept that Mr. Oinky and Ms. Moo-Moo are NOT people?
In a related article, the goat listed reasons why you shouldn't eat goat
ROFLMAO! Loved it!
Good one.
You BET GOAT meat is better than any other meat on the planet. PIG or PORK meat doesn't even come close. Not only that, GOAT is more intelligent, smarter and cleaner than always filthy PPPPPPPPPPPPIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGGGGGGGGG!
PIGS loves to swim and eat in filths whilst GOATS narrrrrrrrrhhhhhhh!
pig is smarter then goats, and pigs are the cleanest animal ! those are facts, check it out! now, remove foot from mouth.
Quite true! Pigs ARE far smarter than goats. Pigs are also quite clean animals, if permitted to be clean. They DO wallow in mud to protect their skin, but leave bodily wastes away from the wallow and nesting area.
The only animal I've found (mammal) dumber than a goat is our old pit bull, who is dumber than a bag of hammers. Nice dog, but just dumb.
Goats will try to eat anything in sight, the old tin can joke is true with goats, they WILL try to eat that can.
They'll also express affection by head butting you.
But, they DO taste yummy.
As to the genius who said that pork is BRED lean, you are an idiot. Period. Pork is FED lean. Or fat. Fat is a dietary thing, not a breed thing. And you can still find fat pigs, they weigh more than lean pigs, so they're still bred and fed fat. The fat is TRIMMED OFF BY THE BUTCHER or preparation plant.
Dullard.
um, pig 50-60 years ago was much much better. But dumbass health nuts convenced the breaders to bread them lean, and that bread out the flavor. Have pork in spain or another country with real pigs still. And I LOVE pig of all kinds still. Ham bacon chops yummy.
PIG is for POT belly floppy IDIOTS! Get that?
yes goat is very very good, but as anyone who tries pretty much anything cooked then you would know, horse is better, wayyyyyy betttttter. but i still prefer gator. but being horse is such a hard thing to get, it comes along only now and again, so i would get it over anything...unless its becomes common... then it will just replace fish in my diet! :)
LOVE fish. Love goat. Love lamb. Love duck. Never tried alligator, but it's on my list. Can't find horse meat locally, but I've heard good reviews, most of it becomes dog and cat food, after no longer producing premarin.
If it's reasonably priced, tastes good and is available, I'll eat it.
I HATE beef, it's tasteless to me.
I love goat meat
I used to eat lamb , but the lamb meat in the US very fatty, so i started to eat goat meat and it very yummy and tasty
You eat lamb? Unless you wish to be dead before GOP empty head Sarah Palin become president of the United States. I just can't wait for this history to be made and for the World to laugh at USA miserably. Most folks don’t know that Pres. Obama is a closet Republican. Folk, Pres. Obama is forerunner to Sarah Palin’s presidency. We are just some few months away. How sweet?
u r stupid
Congratulations! You have FINALLY made it!
You are the very FIRST to say something more insane than Loughner's rant about government mind control through the control of grammar.
Seek mental health assistance, before you injure someone.
I trim the fat off of the lamb, might cook the lamb WITH that fat, but it's removed after.
You might try American Bison, super lean, extra yummy!
Beats that bland beef we have in the markets!
I also enjoy duck and goose. Quail is nice, but too small to be bothered with. Squab is OK, but not really worth the effort (for those who don't know what squab is, it's pigeon).
If it isn't moving, I'll eat it. If it IS moving, guess I'll get a bite on the run. ;)
Haven't tried alligator yet. Snake isn't bad.
Alligator's yummy. Tastes not exactly like chicken but sort of like it.
I raised goats..... goat ice cream is good but everything else tastes like the smell of a buck (male).... and that smell would be what makes a male, male. Just an fyi out there too all you who love to eat goat meat mmm mmm.
I ate a goat once, the meat tasted fantastic for about twenty seconds or so then it tasted like it urinated in my mouth. Nasty. Goats drink from their own fountain if you know what I mean...
Uhh, I have to ask, Willie ... how do you know what it tastes like to have someone you-know-what in your mouth?
That is a good question. Your taste and smell organs work through the same part of your brain, that is why taste and smell are so similar. If you can smell it, you can imagine it's taste. I wasn't joking about the taste, first great then yuk! My guess it comes from drinking their own urine. An interesting note, my neighbor who shared it with me and ate goats regularly didn't notice the nasty aftertaste.
I've ate goat many times, NEVER had any such taste. So, either your neighbor cooked it all cooky or something is wrong with your sense of taste.
Now, for urine taste, go with shark or ray, their kidneys are primitive and they retain ammonia and other compounds that would be released by a higher organism. BUT, proper preparation removes that taste and odor.
Oh please, you can't be serious. It's all in your head. You giving goat meat a bad name.
Eat more chicken...
Well since you put it that way...NO
love the name
Yack, chicken have skinny legs like Sarah Pailin.
If you're not willing to kill it...don't eat it.
I've killed animals for food before, I have zero problem with it.
The Environmental Working Group just released a study that goats are the WORST meat in terms of greenhouse gas emissions (aka their farts). Much worse than beef which itself is much worse than chicken. Of course, if you don't care about that, goat is also tough and really gamey.
The only fart emissions I worry about are my wife's.
@smartaz:
me too!
your a moron, if the goat gives off more gas then other animals then they are the perfect thing to eat.you take out the animal giving off the most greenhouse gas – thats a good thing!... besides the FACT that they taste amazing! horse is better, but far more expensive, and very hard to get. :)
i had horse stew in rome, it was great.
@hippypoet So, basically, eating goat is good for the environment! Sounds like a good enough argument for me :-)
Interesting lie, as goats produce LESS gas than cattle, due to the incredible size of a steer's stomach and the bacteria that ferment their browse before it enters the other stomach.
Invent more BS, it'll get shot down as quickly.
Sorry, I buy Girl Scout cookies, but not cattle cookies that you are selling.
Goat has to be great. 800 bajillion muslims can't be wrong....hahaha.
Really? I didn't realize that Greece was full of Muslims, as THEY eat goat too.
So do Italians. So do Spaniards. So do many European nations.
Reason #6: Maybe this will help the Cubs beat their curse! :D
Good thing animals cant shoot guns
Really? Guess you're right.
I've personally killed an animal for food. Didn't shoot it, I simply cut it's throat and great blood vessels, causing instant unconsciousness.
forksoverknives.com...for reasons not to eat animals
Disgusting! Stop eating meat and killing innocent animals. They feel pain like we all do. I would rather eat a human meat than a animal. I would love to see a human factory farm one day. Then only we will realize how these animals are treated. Shame on us humans...when will be evolve? Killing animals are like hitler's holocaust. Animals are like jews and humans are like hitler. Shame on us!!!
SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
fool. 1, did you know that plant "feel pain" as well. look it up. they release eletrical signals when cut. So just because it doesnt scream doesnt mean it doesnt hurt. 2, most of the animals that we eat today, would not, as a species, exist today if we didnt bread them to eat.
Pin, as a descendant of Jews who suffered through the Holocaust, I find your comparison offensive and extreme. It's clear you've never heard of Godwin's Law. I shall cite it for you here:
The first person to bring up Hitler or Nazis in a debate automatically loses said debate, therefore, you lose, Pin. It's Godwin's Law.
"Forks Over Knives" is just a propaganda video. No thank you.
Disgusting. I hope many of the people commenting are rednecks from the South or something. Time to move forward.
Not me. I'm from Philly and am retired special forces. I've had goat tons of times, all over the world.
Not disgusting at all. It's meat. Its milk is good too. It's a staple for over 90% of the world's population.
And it has far more flavor than beef.
And I also eat tofu occasionally, properly seared and sauced.
The oldest joke about me is, I eat fluently in 27 languages.
We serve it in the restaurant all the time. It's wonderful. It's extremely lean and so tender that you won't need a knife. There is no identifiable flavor (for me) like lamb. You'll think it's pot roast, but better.
We section it and boil it in a large pot with some salt and veggies. (I wouldn't dream of curing it in anything.) Then we separate the meat from the bone and other waste. Then finish the meat in the oven maybe using a good sauce. Don't use a strong or spicy sauce or you won't be able to taste the goat. It's such a small animal that you usually can't get anything like steaks or chops; you just get meat.
In northern Mexico they butterfly a kid pygmy goat, rub it with garlic and salt, and turn it on a spit over charcoal. Very tasty!
If there is a trick to it, it is to get a good goat. (Know your farmer!) It has to be young - not older than 2 years. If it's a male, it cannot have bred. An old billy goat in heat will smell so bad that you won't be able to get the smell out of the meat no matter what you do. A young nanny goat is best. Boer goats, the big black-and-white ones, are good because they're bred for meat.
Buck deer in the rut are so rank that you can often smell them before you see them and I've killed them that were so rutty that I almost gave up on the task of dressing the animal but what I found is that if you don't touch their glands and you get that hide off and cool the meat quickly, very often you'll have a good carcass to work with. You do need to be a bit culinary to work with an animal that is rutty though.
If this debt crisis becomes a default or an economic depression we might be eating goat.
ONLY if the price came down. It's currently a more expensive meat than the bland beef that we have in our markets.
I miss the Middle East for one thing: Goat and lamb was at pork prices. I love both.
Of course, my first thought, after YUM, was from "Don't mess with the Zohan", Goat? Goat? Gooooooat!
"a beautiful animal that should really be celebrated"... by killing someone you're celebrating it? So weird and nonsensical...
Guess he can say that no one fortunately has tried to "celebrate" him yet.. :)
That goat is beautiful and has a CUTE personality than a filthy PIG in a any photo op. Not even close. It's as if it just stepped out of an Irish Spring cold shower.
You are really going to make the PETA fruit cakes angry with that headline.
2 Good reasons for not eating goats: 1. When Goats graze they pluck out the grass with the roots killing so unlike cows they almost destroy the pastures so a goat that is raised humanely is quite destructive to the environment. 2. If you pet them, you can't eat them..can you? But truly they taste good....
Actually, you are wrong.
I raised goats and sheep for 30 years and it is sheep that will denude a pasture, not goats.
Sheep are grazers, whereas goats are browsers. Goats will however, with great enthusiasm, decimate your favorite rose bushes faster than you can say Rumpelstiltskin!
They also have an annoying habit of expressing affection by butting you. I made the mistake of bending down to eye level with my cousin's goat. Got it in the forehead.
My wife SWEARS that the goat's eyes crossed and it DID sit down for a few seconds after, while I was saying, owwwwww!
No joke, that actually happened.
My cousin got rid of it after it left a bruise the size of a dinner plate on her thigh (yes, she's a large woman).
I tried to pet a fish once while snorkeling as a kid. It cut my hand so please believe I get back at fish by eating them. Most edible animals are dumb, smelly, and gross as far as I'm concerned, so I feel no desire to pet them in the first place. They belong on my plate, not a petting zoo. Except for octopus. They're so smart it's actually illegal to test on them without anesthesia. But unfortunately they're just too tasty to not be eaten.
Let's eat foodies. They are the most cruel, arrogant, selfish and gluttons species on earth.
Good luck trying. If I'm in a bad mood, you'll see what an M-4 can do in defense. If I'm in a good mood, you get to see what a 450 grain 45-70 hollowpoint can do.
Cannibal.
It sounds like you're describing evil GOP to us. Nicely put!
Stop eating meat you half-witted hillbillies. Or, try eating humans instead. You know it is known as "Long-pig".
If humanity didnt consume cooked meat, we would still be swinging thru the trees saying oohh oooh oohh. Or wait, let me guess, you are a "creationist".
It's bad enough that we have to kill animals to survive. Do we really have to celebrate it like it gives us an orgasm?
Prime rib gives me the closest thing to an orgasm I can have with my zipper in the up and locked position...
probably because you are a waste of life, and undeserving to be on the planet. All humans like you should be replaced by bees.
TMI
I suppose you get your orgasms from cucumbers...
Use the cucumber, then peel it and serve it up.
Hoping my cucumbers are grown and ready SOON, CUCUMBER SALAD!
With special sauce...
I bet most people who voted that they love goat haven't eaten it every week as I did when I lived in Jamaica as an educational consultant from Florida. The fat is rancid and the meat is tough, and the Jamaicans usually curry it in a slow simmer to soften it and to mask the taste. After eating goat for a year (you can't avoid it in Jamaica; it's one of the few proteins that's always available), my final impression was BAAA! BTW, I'll take oxtail over goat any day.
BS! you ate goat every week for a year because you chose to. Just because something is put before you doesn't mean you HAVE to eat it. What, you're not adult enough to choose what you want to swallow? Mehhhhhhhhhhh
ive heard that if goat is raised poorly it tastes of "urine soaked hay". maybe thay is where the jamacan taste comes from. Maybe the rastas just need to take beter care
IDIOT, what evil SPERM did your mother conceived you from? That of the Devil Lucifer? No wonder.
What's wrong, Bill? Your hands were broke? There were no places to buy ingredients there? There were no chickens?
You ate goat because you CHOSE to be where goat was served.
As for curry, they can keep it. Out of the thousands of curries, we get one variety and it's lousy.
I'm thinking this time, toss the goat into my pasta sauce, along with the pork hocks and oxtails. Cook until the meat falls off of the bones.
My pasta sauce has been recently classified as its own food group. :)
Goats make lovely farm animals, and yes, they are delicious. Take care of them when they are alive, and they will well repay you when they are on the table. Just as well-raised veggies and roots are always best when well cared-for.
If you've had sheep you've pretty much had goat, they're cousins and taste a lot the same. I had a lovely goat stew in the DR, I normally eat goat curried, but the stew was rather tasty. I will get my Dad to do the braised goat shoulder as mentioned above by a blogger, sounds yummy. Goat milk and cheese never gives me problems with excess mucous production that cow's milk and cheese does. I do agree they are cute animals, especially the kids, but they are even cuter in my stomach.
Is goat okay to eat only because it is "enjoyed by many cultures"? Goat...the new Politically Correct Meat. Hell...I bet the veggans are even in for this one then.
Yep, those EVIL Greeks eat goat too. I guess we should deport them, right?
Hey watch your mouth. My sweet g/f is from Greece. If anyone needs deporting at all it’s your PUNKASS back to Europe where you came from. Know your history. This country BELONGS to Native Americans and not some European settlers and occupiers. You're a settler by definition; so shut your F********G mouth!
ALWAYS wonderful to find yet another animal we can raise in abhorrent conditions and then slaughter horribly. YUMMY!
Why get away from the killing of animals? Lets kill more More MORE!
You are ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!! NO KILLING OF ANYTHING TO EAT. STARVE.
Plants are alive, murderer!
Animals are alive!
Eat rocks.
Eating any kind of animal is ghastly. The poor creatures don't deserve to die.
If by ghastly, you mean delicious.
There is always room for all of God's creatures......right next to the mashed potatoes.
In the Philippines they eat monkey brains live. Would that be better than killing them first?
bread to be eaten, most cows, pigs, sheep, goats, chickens, turkies, and plenity of other animals would not be here if we did not raise them to slaughter and consume, and darn are they good.
Yep. It's murder all right. It's ghastly murder.
My rule is to try to use as much as the animal as possible. There's some good steaks in every luxury handbag as far as I'm concerned and that delicious rabbit I had a couple weeks ago once wore a really lovely pelt that should definitely be used on a nice coat. As for goat, dunno what they do with the hides, but since I'm down with eating one, I'm also cool with wearing one.
In that drawer over there are beautiful goatskin leather work gloves. I wear them when I work in the yard or do construction. They rock. That's what goatskin is used for....I got them at Brookstone years ago.
I dine on goat only at Pankot Palace.
Can people please click on Eatocracy's articles about wine and noodles more often, to save us from these stupid articles? They always resort to gross eating articles hoping to get meat eating nuts vs the bleeding heart vegans at each other's throats for clicks. Pathetic.
you are absolutely right. I noticed that too. They have an agenda. It is to dehumanize us more and more until we are like the Chinese; self-oriented and abide only to supreme competition and survival of the snakest.
What is gross about goat? Oh, I KNOW! It's because it's not beef and potatoes.
Here is a newsflash for you: THE MAJORITY OF THE ENTIRE EARTH IS INHABITED BY PEOPLE WHO EAT GOAT DAILY.
When I was deployed to the Horn of Africa, we went into villages to help out. A few times, families slaughtered their only goat to feed us, over our objections, as we brought food.
To avoid offense, we ate the goat. And "forgot" a few extra cases of rations.
Goat is quite tasty, oh palateless one.
There's no resorting here, and certainly no gross agenda. I'm the managing editor of Eatocracy and goat is pretty much my favorite meat. I hope you can get somewhere that cooks it well and you'll be as smitten as I am.
I am glad to hear it. I love goat, and most meat in fact. More alternatives need to be used.
Read the book GoatSong. That's all I'm saying. : )
Tried it a couple times... tastes like meat to me! I'd probably buy it more often if it were easier to come by... I've only ever had it in restaurants.
My bf keeps trying to convince me to drink goats milk, but I am scared to!
its good, better than cow.
After I had my gallbladder removed, I was lactose intolerant for about 9 months, no clue as to why.
While I was unable to drink regular milk, I paid extra for the lactose milk, tried soy milk (bleh!) and goat milk.
I stuck with the goat milk. It's a bit denser, higher in some fats, DELICIOUS too!
Why are you afraid to drink goat milk? That's weird.
Consider the human. There's billions of them on the planet, far more than we need. Yummy. Why do humans get a pass?
Great idea! How about that "American citizen" 14 yr old who beheaded four people in Mexico? I love Mexican food.
Let's toss him on the grill when he gets out in three years and have a feast.
You can have mine. I'd rather be vegetarian than eat people. Yuck. I don't know where they've been.
TOOOO much FAT!!!!
Art – I am thinking great idea, until someone comes to you and says 'it's your turn in the kettle...'
Eating humans causes encephalitis, I.E. swiss cheese brain. Missionaries went around the world giving indigenous people pigs to eat to stop them from cannibalizing. In a few generations they are nearly as smart as us, but not quite. If you want to ruin your brain and the brains of your future children, then go ahead, bon appetite!
Google Kuru and learn the facts, Willie. This happened in New Guinea.
Kuru is a prion disease similar to Mad Cow disease, Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, or BSE. They aren't the same disease, although they're spread in a similar manner. Kuru is spread by eating the brain tissue of a sufferer of Kuru. BSE is spread by feeding a cow the central nervous center tissue of a cow that suffered from BSE.
Prions are indestructible, neither extreme heat nor freezing temperatures nor encasement in boiling glass nor any drug has been found that can destroy a prion. Scary, isn't it? What's a prion? It's a sort of infectious protein that can reproduce itself.
It wasn't encephalitis, it was a prion disease. On ONE island.
That said, the chance of picking up a pathogen is FAR higher eating human meat than from any other animal.
Besides, eating Americans raises your cholesterol, they're not lean meat.
It's been suggested before. Jonathan Swift, anyone?
I'm all for non-traditional meats like goat. Unfortunately, outside of dense population areas that can support a game meat market, they're fairly hard to come by; online shipping costs make them an unreasonable purchase.
Some larger supermarkets carry it as a specialty meat. Look at markets in areas with Indian, African or Middle Eastern neighborhoods.
My supermarket here ran out, but an ethnic African store had some, it's in the freezer right now, waiting for later this week's dinner. :D
Frankly, I'm into dog meat.
Yuk, that's the last time I eat your body in communion...
We are planning on raising goats next year. We have had to clear our woods to make room for them. Now for the research on what kind and all that needs to be done to care and raise them. We are having a really hard time
finding goat meat to buy. We are going to the local fair and try to see if any farmers are willing to sell the harvested
meat to us. Goats...the new "where's the beef!"
The goats will clear the woods. Their natural food is browse, not pasture.
Build a good fence. 6' No-Climb with hot wire midway up. With one goat you can get away with less, but a herd will easily push anything less down. I learned this after coming home one afternoon to find our billy sunbathing on the roof of my wife's convertible.
Dont clear the woods!! Its their favorite thing to clear woods. They will strip anything within their reach except burning weeds. We had a mini goat as a kid that stood on top of a mini donkey to get higher in the trees, funniest thing. :-) Trust me, no woods clearing necessary. The thicker the brush the happier they will be!
I can't eat goat meat, I love their cute little faces too much, so I can't bear eating them. Goat cheese though? Oh HECK yeah. That stuff is GREAT.
ever seen a cow? Like beef?
Sure, goats are cute. So are calves, cattle, bunnies, squirrels, deer, chicks, and other meat animals. Piglets are cute, too. Fish are beautiful. Animals are beautiful, period. We eat them still.
One day soon that will have to stop. Not enough resources.
Yes, and I find that a red, ripe, round tomato is particularly good looking as well.
But they are all darn tasty.
Are you suggesting that we refrain from eating things that are visually appealing?
There is a goat that lives in the woods near my house. He watches me in the morning but runs when I chase him. I will catch him with a rope or a trap and eat him some day. Maybe he got off a truck?
LOL.. too funny.. GOT A GOOD LAUGH off of your comment... LOL.. still laughing
Goat shoulder braised in beer with cumin and dried chipotle peppers........to die for!!!
I would buy it and rabbit if I could find them where I live. I used to raise goats but I liked the animals too much to kill them myself and thus I sold them.
Find a good butcher. You can also order it online, shipped in dry ice.
The markets where rarely sell anything other than chicken, beef and pork. You get some turkey, cornish hen and the occasional mutton, but I have yet to see goat meat.
I hear ya! Unlike crazy GOP, Goats are very understanding and loving. Have you ever seen a picture of Jesus Christ with a goat behind his back? It’s all over every Catholic Church on the planet. That tells a lot about the cute personality of goats and their holy bond with the Son of Living God. Have you seen Dick Cheney petting a goat in your life? Narh!
No, but I have seen plenty of pictures of Thor on a chariot pulled by two goats. That says a lot about the might and main of bucks to have such a bond with the Son of the Living Odin.
The reason man invented curry was to bury that goat taste.
Only because you don't know how to cook.
Properly prepared, goat is EXCELLENT. Good enough that I've got some in the freezer right now and am planning on having it for dinner this week.
Goat's DELICIOUS!
Cabrito tacos are excellent.
No, I just can't goat for that...
That was a baaaaad joke.
Hey you two, stop 'kid'ding around.
Good puns everyone! I actually laughed.
I can goad you.