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just curious, if you were limited to the use of just one animal for all purposes

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Zippylip
Zippylip Posts: 4,768
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which one would it be?
happy in the hut
West Chester Pennsylvania
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  • RRP
    RRP Posts: 25,898
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    First place is beef
    Second place is pork
    Re-gasketing America one yard at a time.
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  • JethroVA
    JethroVA Posts: 1,251
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    Beef doesn't have bacon. Pig wins. 
    Richmond and Mathews County, VA. Large BGE, Weber gas, little Weber charcoal. Vintage ManGrates. Little reddish portable kamado that shall remain nameless here.  Very Extremely Stable Genius. 
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  • Dyal_SC
    Dyal_SC Posts: 6,056
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    Taste buds say beef but my heart health says chicken.  
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  • Canugghead
    Canugghead Posts: 11,533
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    for eating, as pet, or whatever?
    canuckland
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  • Chubbs
    Chubbs Posts: 6,929
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    Beef 100%
    Columbia, SC --- LBGE 2011 -- MINI BGE 2013
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  • Legume
    Legume Posts: 14,627
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    Chubbs said:
    Beef 100%
    You know you're killing the environment eating beef.
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 32,776
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    elk, i can picture a leg of elk prosciutto to satisfy my bacon needs =) elk is better than beef
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • SmokeyPitt
    SmokeyPitt Posts: 10,490
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    Human. There are particular purposes that I use my human wife for that I would prefer not to give up.   

    Which came first the chicken or the egg?  I egged the chicken and then I ate his leg. 

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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 32,776
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    and there it is, hot  elk prosciutto =)

    Oyama Sausage Company - Vancouver BC Canada Hot elk

    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • Zippylip
    Zippylip Posts: 4,768
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    Canugghead said:
    for eating, as pet, or whatever?
    eating, to include all edible products, milk, eggs & so forth...

    This is what makes it tough for me, I could go pig over cow for bacon alone but I'm not sure I could give up all things dairy.  Also not sure I could go the distance without an omelet or egg related baked goods
    happy in the hut
    West Chester Pennsylvania
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  • Ragtop99
    Ragtop99 Posts: 1,570
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    Beef.  Provides meat and dairy.
    Cooking on an XL and Medium in Bethesda, MD.
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  • Ozzie_Isaac
    Ozzie_Isaac Posts: 19,114
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    Spotted Owl .... just to anger PETA.
    They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That's against their interests. - George Carlin
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  • Austin Egghead
    Austin Egghead Posts: 3,966
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    Native Texan chooses beef first and then Anything that roams on our property.
    Large, small and mini now Egging in Rowlett Tx
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  • Ozzie_Isaac
    Ozzie_Isaac Posts: 19,114
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    Is 'fish' an animal?  If so I would choose all the varieties of fish.

    I could live on sushi no problem.
    They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That's against their interests. - George Carlin
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  • Darby_Crenshaw
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    gotta think a hog is the most useable/versatile animal there is.


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  • Ozzie_Isaac
    Ozzie_Isaac Posts: 19,114
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    Darby_Crenshaw said:
    gotta think a hog is the most useable/versatile animal there is.


    I don't know.  People rarely wear pig skin shoes or drink hogs milk.

    I think cattle is most useful from that stand point.
    They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That's against their interests. - George Carlin
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  • Legume
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    agree on the fish
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  • BigWings
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    Zippylip said:
    Canugghead said:
    for eating, as pet, or whatever?
    eating, to include all edible products, milk, eggs & so forth...

    This is what makes it tough for me, I could go pig over cow for bacon alone but I'm not sure I could give up all things dairy.  
    If it meant keeping bacon, I would learn how to milk a pig.

    New Brunswick, Canada

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  • jaydub58
    jaydub58 Posts: 2,167
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    I prefer beef, but I have to ask @Ozzie_Isaac, what do you have against PETA?
    I have been a member of PETA for a very long time,
    People
    Eating
    Tasty
    Animals.............................. 
    John in the Willamette Valley of Oregon
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  • GATraveller
    GATraveller Posts: 8,207
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    You haven't lived until you drink pig milk....

    "Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community [...] but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots."
                                                                                  -Umberto Eco

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  • Ozzie_Isaac
    Ozzie_Isaac Posts: 19,114
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    @jaydub58 when you put it that way, I have no issues ;)
    They don’t want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of critical thinking. They’re not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That's against their interests. - George Carlin
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  • johnmitchell
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    I would go with pig.. So many tasty bits including anal calamari (cooked correctly)..
    Greensboro North Carolina
    When in doubt Accelerate....
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  • Legume
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    johnmitchell said:
    I would go with pig.. So many tasty bits including anal calamari (cooked correctly)..
    I have a theory on this - I think it must taste  terrible/**** and you just want other people to try it also.  How was it and how did you cook it?
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  • Zippylip
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    Darby_Crenshaw said:
    gotta think a hog is the most useable/versatile animal there is.


      I've wondered why it is I've never seen hog milk or cheese, no hog expert so gave wikipedia a read, apparently the swine is not partial to being milked in fact can get down right angry about it.  Anyone know this from experience?  Says the milk is gamy too, and low production. 

    Anyway that's the bigger issue for me with ruling out the cow, great spectrum of meat & equally great on dairy products.  I'd sooner eat any cut of pork over beef but life with cheeseless pizzas would be unlivable.
    happy in the hut
    West Chester Pennsylvania
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  • NPHuskerFL
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    Beef
    LBGE 2013 & MM 2014
    Die Hard HUSKER & BRONCO FAN
    Flying Low & Slow in "Da Burg" FL
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  • johnmitchell
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    Legume said:
    johnmitchell said:
    I would go with pig.. So many tasty bits including anal calamari (cooked correctly)..
    I have a theory on this - I think it must taste  terrible/**** and you just want other people to try it also.  How was it and how did you cook it?
     I am still waiting for Scottie to give us the details on how to cook.. I am just worried if it is good how to approach my family butcher..  =)
    Greensboro North Carolina
    When in doubt Accelerate....
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  • GATraveller
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    johnmitchell said:
     I am still waiting for Scottie to give us the details on how to cook.. I am just worried if it is good how to approach my family butcher..  =)
    From behind.....

    "Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community [...] but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots."
                                                                                  -Umberto Eco

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  • fishlessman
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    theres a place that milks moose for milk and cheese =) im sure an elk could be milked
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • GATraveller
    GATraveller Posts: 8,207
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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUtSazFb5qM

    "Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community [...] but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots."
                                                                                  -Umberto Eco

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