Meat Fried Meat with Meat Sauce

A Vegas buffet is very revealing about American tastes in food. Over 200 feet of edible products and it's not an exaggeration to say that there's some kind of meat in nearly every product! I know, because I had a very hard time finding veggie fare... so hard in fact, I had to resort to asking the chefs to make food fresh for me (which there were happy to do).

Turns out, the same chef who got me meat-free veggies also was the omlette chef. He sympathized, but thought I was being a bit hypocritical about eating eggs. "So, no meat except for chickens?"

"Huh? Chickens?"

"Yeah, you're eating eggs!"

So I explained to him that the eggs we eat were not in fact, chickens, nor would they ever be. Not chicken fetuses, not future chickens even, no, edible eggs are unfertilized eggs. Now, I admit, eating cooked fluids from the insides of a bird don't sound that appealing, but at least no animals were destroyed in making my omlette. That's like saying drinking cow's milk is like eating steak. Both are fluids used by mothers to nurture future animals, but we aren't killing the mother.

Of course, the living condition of these animals gives me pause, so we also try to limit intake of the products, but when I'm grazing in a place where animal meat excess is the norm, I figured it was okay to indulge in a little chicken uterus juice (mixed with spinach, red peppers, bell peppers, onions, and some cow breast juice).

When in Rome, right?

Besides, a good sushi roll might contain hundreds of unfertilized fish, so what's a few unfertilized birds among friends? Oh, and don't get me started on fruit being the sex organs of plants! ;)