Re: AETE? How can I read these
Re: AETE? How can I read these
- Subject: Re: AETE? How can I read these
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 16:37:43 +1000
Of course, a cultural divide can exist within one country's borders...
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But I've been told (God knows where this stuff comes from)
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Indeed, indeed, indeed...
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that the Australian beef that they buy is reared on the large cattle holdings
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in the Northern Territory and Western Queensland. These cattle run around in
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the bush with the camels, water buffalo,donkeys, kangaroos, emus, goats,
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dingoes, cats & rabbits, ticks and mosquitoes (in order of size). Every year
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they are rounded up with helicopters and sent to the abattoir. These are
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skinny, tough old beasts.
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If they round them up every year, I can't see them becoming all that old.
Anyway...
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So skinny and so tough that their flesh is a lot like shoe leather and if you
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mince it you have minced shoe leather.
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Ah, they must leave them out there until they get old and tough. Clever
devils.
And yet crazy foreigners still end up buying large numbers of them. They
must be real dills.
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To soften the meat they have to add beef fats. So we import beef fat to mix
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with the meat before being minced. Apparently the fat is sourced from the USA
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Maybe we don't so much import it, as swap it. Because last I heard, fat
choppers were also a sizeable export item -- to the US, of all places. Where
the meat is much fancied -- for hamburger mince. What a coincidence!
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(where the animals are hand fed and patted by children. I don't know much
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about American farming practice
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Yes, all those children rushing off to the local feedlot after school, so
they can pat the animals. Of course we put our feedlots out of view, so the
gullible city folk think the stuff in supermarkets is straight off pasture.
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So the claim "100% Australian Beef" is true, they just don't tell us where the
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fat is coming from.
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Right.
But do they tell us where urban myths come from? ;-)
(No, I've never eaten a MacDonald's hamburger, but I do own and breed beef
cattle.)
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Shane Stanley, email@hidden