I don't know which I love more - meat - or forensics shows. And I CAN enjoy them both at the same time. Still - the maggot thing does kind of get to me.
I guess you wouldn't want to vist the body farm? A real place where bodies are strategically placed in different positions, different spots like - in the sun, in the shade, buried 2 feet down, in a car trunk - so their decomposition can be studied. Yeah, good stuff.
OMG, I saw one of those on an episode of Law & Order. I think a visit to the body farm would put me off meat for good.
I've gone veggie for awhile a few times but it never sticks, because vegetarianism denies me bacon. Tasty, tasty bacon.
So last night/today while procrastinating (which should be my intro to, like, everything ever, and maybe I can just skip it from now on 'cause don't y'all know already? yes, you do), I happened on this story via the internet rabbit-hole. HA HA HA WE ARE MADE OUT OF MEAT AND GUESS WHO KNOWS IT? A BIG OL' CROCODILE.
So anyway. Yeah, body farms. University of Tennessee, I think. All *about* how bodies rot under different conditions and what the local maggotry does under such conditions and *anyway.* While I am not so particularly happy with the job I have I am always glad to be reminded that it could be worse. PUTREFYINGLY WORSE.
Um, but actually the point of this comment was to tell you No! No do not give up on meat! THE WORLD DOES NOT NEED ANY MORE VEGETARIANS OH GOD!
You know what I think? I think this is only a temporary reaction. Like how on the first day of gross anatomy lab, everyone was *picking the meat* out of whatever sandwich/salad/pasta-with-friggin-ground-beef-
sauce he/she had packed for lunch, and by day three we were all, like, getting hungry working on the cadavers.
Hi, I think I just un-made my point again.
See, and here I go around with friends thinking, if we were stuck in an avalanche, who should eat whom first?
For instance: I think I could live on my boyfriend's thigh for a couple of weeks...but my whole body would only last him about ONE week. But he could haul me around, and I couldn't very well transport him. So...tradeoffs.
And wasn't there some story a few years ago about a guy in the Australian Outback who ate his OWN leg to survive?
i'm at work and so can't come up with anything interesting or clever, but yeah, meat is gross. and expensive. be a vegetarian- it's cheap. and there's nothing wrong with having a vegetarian phase or a vegetarian mood. or even being a vegetarian in the kitchen and a meat eater when out. make it work for you!
Jamelah - True story: I don't like the taste of bacon anymore. I KNOW. But my mom switched to turkey bacon when I was kid, which I hate, and after having been denied bacon for years I can't stand the taste of it anymore. Sad.
Gabbiana - Oh my DAMN someone took a PICTURE of the hand in the damn thing's MOUTH. I do remember eventually being able to eat snacks while I was in Anatomy/Physiology lab (this was in high school & the teacher didn't care) whereas even the idea grossed me out at first. So I guess there is something to say for desensitization.
tasterspoon - I know people do crazy things out of desperation ... but wouldn't eating your OWN flesh make you sick? Maybe it would, over time. I dunno.
Caitlin - Ooh, yeah. It's expensive: that's another point against meat.
LOL! I volunteered at a coroner's for a whole summer (and LOVED every minute of it--I swear! I learned something new every day!) so I saw a TON of nastiness. More than my fair share. Bloated bodies that turn as green as grass, whose skin falls off if you just touch them.... Sorry, I'll stop.
Just don't eat yogurt when watching those shows. BAD IDEA.
CSI is about as gruesome as I can stand my shows... Crime 360 sound awful!
And you know, meat doesn't really bother me, but every now and then I get really squicked out by eggs. As a general rule, I LOVE eggs, but then sometimes I look at that yolk floating around in the whites and I start to think about it and then I really want to throw up. I wonder if there's a word for people who don't eat eggs?
Angela - Eeeeew!
Wickedly Scarlett - Ovaphobe? I can't eat my fried eggs runny like I did when I was a kid. So gross, when you really think about it. Aborted chicken fetus, sunny side up! :-p
Eggs are gross if you think too much about them...but so is milk.
It seems like cheese would go against every natural instinct, and yet...
And YET. 
Interesting! I've gotten grossed-out over those kinds of scenes before too, but I've never thought about not eating meat because of it...
I always have to take it too far...
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