News

Fukushima’s Radiation Now Spreading In Japanese Meat

You know what happens when your nuclear reactor explodes, sending radioactive materials into the dirt? The irradiated gunk gets into the plants. Animals eat the plants. Humans eat the animals. You can see where this is going.


July 9, 2011
Geek Out

Meat, Machines, Music, More Meat

This is how your sausage and burgers and jerkies and other meats are made, set to weirdly hypnotic-but-unnerving music that I’m pretty sure turns it all into a social commentary about industrialisation and society and our lives and meat.


July 1, 2011
Gadgets

Beat Your Meat In Style With This Ultramodern Tenderiser

Summertime’s here in the US, which ushers in months of orgiastic carnivore living. Buy dead things and eat them – it’s delicious! Sorry vegetarian friends, grilled eggplant is delicious too. But for the rest of us – this serrated roller will powerfully prep fresh flesh.


June 30, 2011
Geek Out

How Your Bacon Is Made: The Jarvis JR-50 Super Pig Decapitator

Slaughterhouses are dangerous places to work, what with all the tightly packed cutting implements and atomised brain matter you’re inhaling. The Jarvis JR-50 Head Dropper aims to make hog processing safer for everyone but the hogs. The name even sounds peaceable.


June 28, 2011
Science

Lunchtime! How’s a Stem Cell Hamburger Sound?

Gizmodo AU

Dutch Scientists say they’re about a year away from producing beef mince grown from stem cells – without the need to kill any animals. Say hello to “vitro meat”.


May 21, 2011
Science

Lab-Grown Meat: It’s What’s For Dinner

In this week’s New Yorker, Michael Specter takes a great look at the world of in-vitro meat—grown in a lab, outside an animal body. It’s not a matter of if, but when. Will you eat it?


May 14, 2011
Geek Out

How To Grind Meat For 240,000 Burgers In One Hour

I love cheeseburgers. But people like Eric Schlosser and Upton Sinclair have to ruin everything, forcing me to consider where my burger came from. So I had to ask: What’s the most powerful meat grinder in existence?


May 13, 2011
Science

You Are What You Eat Eats

There’s no such thing anymore as just eating a steak. Was it grass fed? Did it have a hobby? Now, thanks to a group of Irish chemists, you’ll never have to worry again about your Porterhouse’s diet. Just your own.


May 1, 2011
Science

Grass-Fed Beef Is The New Performance Enhancing Drug

Organic! Local! Grass-fed! Fanned with palm fronds! All those terms used to describe food usually mean diddly squat to me because I’m a simpleton eater. If it tastes good, it is good. But athletes – people who need to care about their body – are starting to get into eating grass-fed beef craze because of the health benefits.


April 20, 2011
News

Taco Bell’s Beef Is Actually Beef: Lawsuit Dropped

The lawsuit that accused Taco Bell of only having 36 per cent beef in their seasoned beef has been dropped. Taco Bell says no money exchanged hands and that they weren’t changing any products either. Taco Bell estimates they spent up to $US4 million combating the false accusation in advertising. Go ahead and order your Gorditas and Chalupas again. It’s 88% beef! [LA Times]