The Other White Meat: Don’t Believe the Hype

February 2nd, 2007

The Other White Meat: Don’t Believe the Hype

Speaking of cease and desist letters, SWT has an interesting story about a breast milk advocate getting some unwanted legal attention from the National Pork Board:

The Lactivist is a blog about breastfeeding and human milk banking. It’s mostly a gathering place for breastfeeding moms to come and share their thoughts and experiences and to keep up to date on the latest issues in the fight for the rights of a child to eat in public. To help fund the site (and to raise money for the non-profit milk banks) I have a CafePress store that sells t-shirts with funny pro-breastfeeding slogans. Things like “Milk on Tap” and “That’s my baby’s lunch you’re staring at.”

Thus…the shirt that read “the other white milk.”

Hilarious. It’s been Dugg, so you can guess which way this is going to go for the pork people.

In describing my eating habits, I used to say “I don’t eat red meat”. Then people would say, “what about pork? It’s the other white meat”. For the ones who weren’t joking (and there were too many) I’d try to explain to them that that was simply effective marketing that they’d come to believe as a truth.

Now I say “I don’t eat anything that had (exactly) four legs.” That’s the most satisfactory qualifier I’ve come up with.

Comments: 10 Responses so far

double-plus-ungood
February 2nd, 2007
10:26 am

Now I say “I don’t eat anything that had (exactly) four legs.” That’s the most satisfactory qualifier I’ve come up with.

Ah, so you eat venison.

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darren
February 2nd, 2007
10:46 am

Double: Heh. If I knew the guy who shot it, probably.

The long version of my eating habits is that I stopped eating red meat back when organic meats were hard to find. That’s no longer the case, and if I can be fairly certain that an animal was raised and killed without cruelty or harm to the environment, I’ll eat it. So, wild deer which have been shot are good examples of that (assuming they’ve been killed quickly, I guess).

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Ian King
February 2nd, 2007
10:52 am

How ’bout kangaroo?

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Ian King
February 2nd, 2007
10:53 am

I hadn’t seen Darren’s answer when I posted the above comment — guess that answers it.

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darren
February 2nd, 2007
10:55 am

Ian: Good question. Maybe I should say ‘exactly four limbs’. If we ever manage to resurrect the dinosaurs, I’ll have the same quandary about the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

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Derek K. Miller
February 2nd, 2007
11:14 am

Chickens have four limbs.

I’ve never quite understood the term “red meat,” since lots of things are red that don’t fit the colloquial definition. “Mammal meat” makes more sense, though that would probably bother people more. And Kangaroo would therefore fit.

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