i buy meat at my college.  they kill and cut up cows, pigs, and sheep.  and they sell it cheap!  it's not organic, but there aren't any preservatives, and it's very tastey.

i'm actually a food science major, and i had a meat science class.  i know all kinds of things about meat!  we didn't really talk about if the antibiotics and vitamins and stuff they feed the animals affects the people who eat it though.

so...since i don't have much to contribute to the discussion i will just share a fun meat fact:  the USDA (semi recently) determined that it was safe to eat meat from cloned cows.

doughboy wrote: so, now we know that it's safe to eat cloned cows, but my question is, is it as delicious to eat cloned cows? if you need a test subject, let me know. we asians eat absolutely everything out of a cow.

The deliciousness of the cow depends on it's genes.  I would want to clone the cows that have lots of marbling in their meat.  Some people would probably want to clone cows that don't put down as much fat.  I think it would also be more economical to clone the cows that grow bigger.

doughboy wrote: Danni wrote: i buy meat at my college. they kill and cut up cows, pigs, and sheep. and they sell it cheap! it's not organic, but there aren't any preservatives, and it's very tastey. i'm actually a food science major, and i had a meat science class. i know all kinds of things about meat! we didn't really talk about if the antibiotics and vitamins and stuff they feed the animals affects the people who eat it though. so...since i don't have much to contribute to the discussion i will just share a fun meat fact: the USDA (semi recently) determined that it was safe to eat meat from cloned cows. i've heard of government/military meat and cheese, but college meat??? i'm surprised my school doesn't sell meat since we are the biggest university in the prairies (entire campus smells like fertilizer for months at a time!) so, now we know that it's safe to eat cloned cows, but my question is, is it as delicious to eat cloned cows? if you need a test subject, let me know. we asians eat absolutely everything out of a cow.

Yeah! It does smell there half the time! That should be a new business on campus. Fresh meat from the farm.

Anyways, back to the topic. I don't know if this was mentioned but aren't a lot cows today injected with growth hormones? That might explain a lot of the early puberty and gigantic or not so gigantic kids that are going to school today.

I work in a all boys private school now and I practically have to keep my beard so that I can look older than most of these guys. However, I'm only 5' 8 that's the average height of a student in grade 7.

It's probably because I'm asian but a couple of generations ago, I don't think we had this many tall and extremely huge kids going to school.