i like the suet and jerky log idea. i'm gonna have to try that for sure. i usually just take a bunch of jerky and some dried raw suet or some raw butter or coconut oil for fat.

My view of a wonderful future  Utopia would be something like Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World"

interesting... i loved that book but how the hell would that be a desirable future?

lunch: 2 eggs, beef shank (with marrow), hog fat, lamb liver, sun dried tomatoes

dinner: beef brisket, marrow, hog fat, beef kidney, venison jerky

Look at how much we achieved in terms of inventions and technologies in the last 150 years, CHK91. Our intelligence is definitely increasing.

sir, you are incorrect. technology does not equal intelligence. can't you see this technology is killing the planet? far from intelligent in my opinion

I saw Avatar on the most massive IMAX in my area. Yeah it was a terribly artless movie with a naive premise, but i'm sure that premise hit home in a positive way to some equally naive people. Some of the scenes did transcended just effects and transported you to somewhere else.

exactly, yeah, it might have been 'cliche' or whatever, but there's no getting around the GREAT parabole. it was just awesome to see such a huge movie attacking industry and western culture

no country for old men... i really liked this, but then i didn't understand the very end 

yeah, it's kinda open to your interpretation which is... cool... i'd rather it be more direct though

Man that book was depressing while the movie was inspirational/interesting.

interesting. i felt really good after reading the book. both are great though

and yuli, moon IS awesome. really enjoyed it

Any truth to the claim that cured meat causes colon cancer? That alone is a good reason to avoid nitrates.

it's a good point. im not sure where the nitrates that are used in cured meats originate, but nitrates are prevalent in lots of vegetables, so it seems unlikely. interestingly, celery juice, which is very high in nitrates, is sometimes used to cure artisinal salami in place of the more conventional nitrates. if i had to cure my own salami, i would use celery juice.

right. But I think most of the kind in WF and similar shops have indeed been heated.

very true. pretty much any salami you can buy in a store is no good. you gotta find the artisinal traditional salami craftsmen. they're rare, but i found one. but i don't eat the stuff regularly at all. only once a month or so when it's more convenient than lugging around fresh raw meat. it's definitely not something to eat very often. i see it more as a survival food. a good way to preserve food too.

Raw means unprocessed.

i understand what you're saying, but to me, raw means unheated. so, to me, ceviche, traditional salami, jerky, etc are raw. and i've noticed i do MUCH better with those foods than cooked meats. which is all that really matters to me.

“If you're not willing to lose everything, you'll never be able to gain anything.” —Costas Gournas

i've had cow eye before. the trick is to just puncture the eye without letting everything shoot out and then sucking the contents out. it's salty and yes, there is like a hard gelatinous thing in there (spherical i think). not sure what it is exactly but i ate it. i didn't eat the eye 'pouch', just sucked out the juices

edit: still hungry so ate 4 small apples, a handful of cilantro, some kombu seaweed (first time, it's delicious! unexpectedly sweet tasting), some honey, and a handful of pecans. in that order. waited a while before the pecans.

it varies but mostly twice a day. first around noon, then around 7 or 8 at night. but like i said, it changes up a lot. that's just what happens most of the time i guess

Or I'd skin and gut the mouse, put some seasalt over it and hang it to dry then eat it

i was thinking about this too. it's so weird though, i skinned him so he (most definitely a he) pretty much looks like a tiny skinned rabbit but the skin immediately around the whiskers (and the whiskers themselves) didn't pull off with the rest of the skin. so it's this carcass with whiskers, ha. looks kinda cool actually.