MEAT
News and Groups
- The MEATing Place. Daily, archived, and searchable news; online magazines; meat-industry events calendar; bulletin board; links to resources. Meat and Poultry also has good coverage.
- The Inspector. Excellent site supporting federal meat inspectors. Lots of news and opinions about horrific working conditions and bad meat.
- Pork4Kids: education from the National Pork Producers Council. See also the Onion's Where Does Bacon Come From?
- People Eating Tasty Animals. "A resource for those who enjoy eating meat, wearing fur and leather, hunting, and the fruits of scientific research." Editorials, plus extensive links to sites on meat, leather, fur, taxidermy, hunting, fishing, pets, and research involving animal experimentation. People for the Ethical Treatment of Carnivores is a parody site.
- Agripedia: Meat Identification. Excellent photos and descriptions of cuts from beef, pork, and lamb animals. Plus quizzes!
Producers
- Ask the Meatman. Great information on cuts for beefs, porks, and deer; videos for sale.
- Eat Wild. "The clearinghouse for information about pasture-based farming."
- Lupo's Spiedies. An upstate New York version of shish kebab, served as a sandwich, sold in pre-marinated bags. See also Paul Havemann's recipe.
Recipes and Appreciation
- A Hamburger Today.
- Suicide Food. Ads/logos of animals that desire to be eaten.
- Grub Street.
- Offal Good.
- Big Burger: A 6-pond Hamburger. Via Snopes.
- How to Dry Age Beef at Home.
- Pure Beef Refreshment. Meaty sodas.
- Barbecue'n on the Internet. Extraordinarily informative.
- The Meatrix. Clever, if vegan, parody.
- Turducken. A chicken in a duck in a turkey. For a project this complex, see also the recipes of Paul Prudhomme, the Austin Chronicle, and Culinary Cafe. Or try a ten-bird roast.
Or order online at Cajunstuff and elsewhere.
- The Online Pork Rind Resource.
- La Casa de Scrapple. Scrapple sits atop all others in the pantheon of breakfast meats composed primarily of the "unmentionable." Lurid recipe, photos, and the Olsen twins.
- Peppers and Smoke: Burgers shows fine, professional photos of a ground-bacon burger. Bacon Cheese Baconburger is more casual.
- Meat or Accident?
- Meat Cake's current vanguard. See also the archived original.
- Hats of Meat.
- Iowa State University's Tasty Insect Recipes. Bug Blox, Banana Worm Bread, Rootworm Beetle Dip, Chocolate Chirpie Chip Cookies. See also Survival.com.
- Montana's Original Testicle Festival. It's not the animals' pictures you have to worry about.
- They're Made Out of Meat. Terry Bisson's brilliant science-fiction short story.
Science
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