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[irishsquid]

So wait are you saying my food was once alive????

Sorry, I don't understand your question. Maybe it was, maybe not?
My comment was more about judgement being passed on people who hunt and fish as being somehow not right/moral/PC/ insert any reason, when there is food already ready to be purchased. See quote below:

It will be safer and better for the fish not to take it along with you, there is lots of fish for sale already dead in the local markets, why not be happy with that!

Someone may well be happy with store bought and more power to them, nothing wrong with it. But why question someone who would prefer to harvest their own, as if there is something inherently wrong with it? I hope this cleared up my intent.

 

[MSilvia]

Sorry, I don't understand your question. Maybe it was, maybe not?

He was kidding... we harvested about 10 lbs of scallop meat together this past weekend.

 

[jswantek]

... I think I'll go toss a nice thick steak on the grill and ponder what to do next as I chew. Maybe pour myself a glass of wine that I made by crushing and squeezing some poor innocent grapes.

Most people don't realize the service they're doing by drinking wine. If nobody drank it, then they would stop producing it. If that happened, we would have such an overpopulation of grapes (which have no known natural predators) that our houses would be overrun by vines and devoured within years!

To you, I say thank you, keep those grapes under control! Na zdorovye!

 

[RIOceanographer]

From now on, only 'free range bacteria water' for me. Oh wait, the bacteria are alive, and if I drink the water with them in it then they will die.

This reminds me of a bizarre conversation I once had with the captain of one of the research vessels I used to work on. He was a vegetarian. One day he explained that he would not drink beer, just hard alcohol because beer had DNA in it from the yeast and he wouldn't eat or drink anything with DNA.

So I said, "You do realize that nearly everything you eat has DNA in it, right?"

He replied, "No it doesn't, I am a vegetarian."

A bit amazed I pointed out, "Plants have DNA."

He said quite seriously, "No they don't, only animals have DNA."

I told him, "Trust me, they have DNA."

He thinks for a minute then says, "Well then I guess I mean that I don't eat anything with animal DNA."

I let it drop at this point, but part of me was tempted to point out that yeast is a fungus not an animal.

 

[Rileybri]

He was kidding... we harvested about 10 lbs of scallop meat together this past weekend.

I have taken great pleasure in dispaching hundres of lobsters (free range ofcourse!), countless bushels of steamers and muscles, at lest 10 lbs of scallops, and a few fishes in my life time. So ya I was being factious........

 

[paulthenurse]

One day he explained that he would not drink beer, just hard alcohol because beer had DNA in it from the yeast and he wouldn't eat or drink anything with DNA.

And how exactly did he think the alcohol appeared in the mash before it went into the still? Did the alcohol fairy come down the chimney in the middle of the night and leave it for Mr Beam to add back in the morning?

And jswantec,

I have to dissagree with you about grapes having no natural enemys. With 50 vines of Cabernet Franc, Muscat and Reisling of my own, and as one who buys California and Chilean grapes by the ton, I'm convinced that damned near every living organism under the sun (whether they have DNA or not!) is a grapes mortal enemy.

Maybe not scallops, they pretty much leave 'em alone. Lobsters, otoh, HATE grapes and mess with them every chance they get!

PTN

 

[irishsquid]

He was kidding... we harvested about 10 lbs of scallop meat together this past weekend.

I have taken great pleasure in dispaching hundres of lobsters (free range ofcourse!), countless bushels of steamers and muscles, at lest 10 lbs of scallops, and a few fishes in my life time. So ya I was being factious........

:doh2:Too much game meat must be rotting my thought processes. 10 lbs. of scallops sounds like a nice appetizer.
Carry on my brothers!

 

[Rileybri]

:doh2:Too much game meat must be rotting my thought processes. 10 lbs. of scallops sounds like a nice appetizer.
Carry on my brothers!

http://www.scubaboard.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/125190/ppuser/96858

It was!

 

[RIOceanographer]

And how exactly did he think the alcohol appeared in the mash before it went into the still? Did the alcohol fairy come down the chimney in the middle of the night and leave it for Mr Beam to add back in the morning?

I was just happy I convinced him that plants have DNA too, I didn't bring that up. The whole thing was hurting my brain.

 

[irishsquid]

http://www.scubaboard.com/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/125190/ppuser/96858

It was!