US Slipping in Life Expectancy

[Orleander]

I always buy the darker meat. ALWAYS.
Its fibers have broken down and its more tender.

[dixonmassey]

Activity? Have any of you've been to a major Metropolitan city? There are little if any places for activity, everything is private, parks somewhere 50 miles away (one freequenlty need to pay $ for the priviledge), no sidewalks, major highways splitting the cities, crime. Damn, I was stopped by the cops few times for walking on the rural South street/roads (I'm not a bum yet ), walking is suspicious, nobody walks, if one does - there must be a problem with him, moral rot. Plus, one must have 4-6 hours of sitting in front of TV (or computer ) to recuperate after yet another degrading work day.

[S.A.M.]

I always buy the darker meat. ALWAYS.
Its fibers have broken down and its more tender.

I think they use meat tenderizers for that?

[dixonmassey]

I think they use meat tenderizers for that?

I'm driving by the huge feedlots too frequently to buy meat on regular basis. Even though, I admit my consiousness is getting "thicker". I couldn't eat meat for few weeks after seeing first feed lot up close and personal. Now, my senses are much duller. Industrial feeding and slaughter of animals - there is something hell like about that. The thought "the species doing it, has no right to live" frequently comes to my mind. Coming back to tenderness:

A by-product of the dairy industry, most of the calves are sent to veal farms or raised for beef. Those raised for veal spend their short lives chained in crates so narrow that they cannot turn around. To produce tender, high-quality veal, they are fed an iron-deficient liquid diet that leaves them weak and diseased. They will never see the sun, exercise or have the opportunity to graze before they are slaughtered at 16 weeks of age.

[S.A.M.]

I'm driving by the huge feedlots too frequently to buy meat on regular basis. Even though, I admit my consiousness is getting "thicker". I couldn't eat meat for few weeks after seeing first feed lot up close and personal. Now, my senses are much duller. Industrial feeding and slaughter of animals - there is something hell like about that. The thought "the species doing it, has no right to live" frequently comes to my mind. Coming back to tenderness:

A by-product of the dairy industry, most of the calves are sent to veal farms or raised for beef. Those raised for veal spend their short lives chained in crates so narrow that they cannot turn around. To produce tender, high-quality veal, they are fed an iron-deficient liquid diet that leaves them weak and diseased. They will never see the sun, exercise or have the opportunity to graze before they are slaughtered at 16 weeks of age.

Reminds me of the factory farms.

[Willy]

Without trying to sound "racist".

What do any of you think about the fact that obesity is a overwelming problem mainly in the black and hispanic comunity's of America?

[Orleander]

I think they use meat tenderizers for that?

why would I buy meat tenderizers with chemicals when I can buy a naturally tenderized meat?
Some places actually advertise having aged meat.

[BelgoHead]

Without trying to sound "racist".

What do any of you think about the fact that obesity is a overwelming problem mainly in the black and hispanic comunity's of America?

DO you have statistics at all or a link at the least?

But without trying to sound racist myself i think i have noticed a larger amount of Native Americans (i live in canada) that are obese then to white people.

[darksidZz]

Best news I've heard all day

[madanthonywayne]

Here's a good point:

Many things that cause premature death have nothing do with medical care. We have far more fatal transportation accidents than other countries.

Similarly, our homicide rate is 10 times higher than in the U.K., eight times higher than in France, and five times greater than in Canada.

When you adjust for these "fatal injury" rates, U.S. life expectancy is actually higher than in nearly every other industrialized nation.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/art...on_whos_h.html

[s0meguy]

Thank you welfare and Mcdonalds

McDonalds and all those other fastfood restaurants are like a plague in Europe. Our welfare system is also much more sophisticated (you even get enough money to live by for doing absolutely nothing), talking about the Netherlands here. So there has to be another explanation, maybe education?