Ate about half pound of pretty raw grass fed beef shank. Seared for only about 1minutes total. Only a thin layer of brown/grey on the outside, everything else raw. It was soooo hard to chew.... I much prefer eating raw ground beef.
I are it with raw eggs, butter, sliced lime, and some sauerkruat.

Hopefully i have positive results.

The shank of beef is very tendony and sinewy. Select a different cut for a different experience, such as reasonably-price cuts from the rump. Try London broil, eye of round, rump roast, cuts like that. I pay less than $10/pound for grassfed.

We should all make efforts to eventually only support local farmers.

People don't only support local farmers because local farmers don't have everything on a year-round basis. Look at the topic of this post: apples and pears in the dead of winter. If you want an apple or pear right now(!), it is either imported or cold-storage, but how many people would go shopping where there was only fruit in season? Even CSAs in my area carry produce from their "partners" - certified organic producers in other parts of the world.

I have a personal idea that would be good but don't know how it could be done but choking, yea choking it sounds bad but I've been choked out many times and its really not that bad and when the animal goes dead its unconscious you must continue to hold choke for oxygen to brain to stop then it dies it seems like a good idea,

I don't think that option is found in the Holy Scriptures, but I think GS is right about the Daily Mail articles reflecting anti-Islam sentiments in the UK. We have our slaughterhouse scandals in the US that involve weirdo workers yukking it up over the slaughter of animals, but that is more of a respect-for-animals issue than a religious-food-preparation issue.

What was this Russian substance, magnesium sulfate? That will clean you out, we have discussed it on this forum.

Thanks for responses to my question.
Sounds like opening oysters is a huge job, which needs brutal force?

Not brutal force, but a little twist of the wrist and knowing the right position for your knife. Watch some methods and pick one.

What about the intestines of oysters? Don't you identify them and cut them out?

Eat the whole thing. The oyster won't make you sick. Water pollution can make you sick, but commercial oysters aren't taken from sewage-water areas.

i think the "that which does not kill you makes you stronger" quote is pretty harsh...

Yes, that quote is a wry commentary on life, intentionally so. "Shit happens!" is along the same vein. Life's bottom line: whatever stress you don't master will keep on presenting itself to you; the longer you resist learning how to cope, the longer you will suffer. Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.

i think physical health and strength do wonders to lend resiliency to the emotional and spiritual body. 

It goes the other way, too: if you learn to master your emotional and spiritual bodies, your health will improve.

Tribe_, Jessica and I are giving you opposite advice, but there is no "who is right and who is wrong" here. I hope you can use both perspectives to find your own, and realize that Jessica doesn't always "quit" and I don't always "stay" in stressful situations. And as Jessica said, the in-your-own-head conversation that you develop as you go through this situation is very important, so do pay attention to what you are thinking, to what you really want.

For example, what if you realize that you don't want to continue with hockey? It's not that easy to think that now, because those other voices in your head will argue that you have always loved hockey. You might worry about what others will think if you decide that this level of hockey playing is not fun.  Concerns like that can cloud your vision, but don't worry because so many people change their mind. You have a right to change yours, too. You might even get stuck because you don't know what you really want to do, but it is not necessary to know what you want to do next before you quit going in the wrong direction.

I bring water when I'm traveling by car, but I wouldn't hesitate to buy supermarket R/O bottled water en route  if necessary. On airplanes, well, you have to buy whatever they are selling past the TSA checkpoint (in the US). At home, I use a gravity filter... no recommendations (I don't love it and I don't hate it).

I've never had an issue with hydration - I drink when I am thirsty.

How do I look for local wholesaler of oysters? I live in Austin, TX.

Try this yelp search: http://www.yelp.com/search?find_desc=oysters&find_loc=Austin%2C+TX&ns=1&ls=d09ea43e84eb770f and see if there is a wholesaler listed. If not, ask some of the restaurants if there is a local w/s distributor. You might also find a restaurant that is willing to make you a deal - that's how I buy my salmon roe.

Eveheart, how much do you pay for 5 dozen box?

$60 for kumamoto oysters that taste great raw. They also sell what they call BBQ oysters for grilling (big and not as tasty raw) are less.

My wholesaler sells wooden boxes of 60 kumamoto oysters that they get shipped in daily, so they are very fresh the day I buy them. Their instructions are to keep the oysters in that box (not airtight, but slows evaporation) for "a week or two" in the refrigerator. My experience is that, by the end of the first week, all the oysters look shriveled and some are dead. So, I never buy a box without first having someone to share the oysters with. If it's just me, I eat my oysters at an oyster bar for $1.50 each.

Toldja so! LOL

I've posted a link somewhere to a study about digestibility of bones (conclusion: small bones eaten whole get "digested" just fine). Same would apply to other tough parts like tendons and skin.

There are now different points of views regarding the vaccine debate in the no-vaccine camp.

Exactly! IMO, the ones who prit-near deny that the diseases even existed drown out the voice of rational objections.

I can't see the conspiracies where others see them: vaccinations don't work perfectly because nothing works perfectly. Vaccinations will be improved, changed, discarded. Let's just get on with whatever improvements our imaginations can create, which is all that's going to happen anyway.

And who made medicine so political? "We" did, every time we insisted that "somebody" do something about the diseases brought on by our own nutritional deficiencies.