Comments on: Cuy: It’s What’s For Dinner

By: John Galt

John Galt — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:07:57 +0000

Some of ewe are so pathetic that given the coming calamity caused by over population will likely find yourselves on my dinner plate.

By: South American Animals

South American Animals — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 23:45:02 +0000

I tried cuy for the first time this summer in Ecuador. It was .. interesting .. parts of it were dry and some were greasy at the same time Kinda crazy .. one of my Ecuadorian friends just ate its crunchy foot like it was nothing .. still recovering from that

By: cassandra

cassandra — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:11:32 +0000

Missing the point, anyone? People eat meat. The ‘ecological’ problem is that there are too many people in the world, and thus too many people wanting meat. If you want to be ‘ethical’, kill yourself and reduce the population pressure on this planet. Switching yourself to a diet of grains is about as healthy as making a cow eat grains. Me, I’m not going to kill myself, being an unethical predator who intends to eat all the meat she can acquire.

By: Vegan

Vegan — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 16:13:04 +0000

I agree 100% with Mark J. It’s fairly typical of human nature to try to look for a way around a problem by trying to “engineer” a solution. In this case trying to farm smaller animals or the same animals on a different scale or in a different way rather than confronting the underlying truth. As Mark puts it… “the best thing for human and environmental welfare is to eat a plant-based diet.” Absolutely right.

By: meatlover

meatlover — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 04:55:27 +0000

Cuy, sounds delicious. Cuy are bred and raised for food. Stupid Europeans took them and bred little pets out of them, which are common now. Can anyone tell me where i can buy a breeding pair of cuy to raise for food? (NOT ordinary ‘guinea pigs’).

They would be much easier for us than chickens. hard to raise chickens in your townhouse.

thanks.
meatlover

By: Richard Henry

Richard Henry — Mon, 18 May 2009 22:01:53 +0000

Andrea, you missed the part where Erik said eyes “on the front of our faces.” The animals you cited have eyes *on the side of their heads* (maybe debatable on the hippo – I’m not an expert) so that they can instantaneously have a wider field of regard and see the predators coming! Also, Erik made the point clearly that it was hunters who had preserved wilderness. They’re about the only group other than conservationists who are willing to *pay* to keep places wild. The rest of the world would be fine turning it all into a Walmart parking lot or subdivision with McMansions.

By: Robert Lalasz

Robert Lalasz — Mon, 18 May 2009 21:09:23 +0000

Hey, Bill Robinson and al, it looks like you guys are writing from a script. Opposing comments welcome, but let’s try to make them original, at least

By: al

al — Mon, 18 May 2009 19:17:19 +0000

We would focus on the fact that animal agriculture, whether it be guinea pigs, “backyard chickens”, dogs, cats, or ducks, can never be sustainable and green, let alone compassionate. Instead folks should be growing soy beans, potatoes, and other veggies in their backyards or vacant lots. Mr Miller conveniently ignores that replacing beef with smaller animals means eating A LOT more small animals, possibly dozens more per person per year. The “backyard” farmer suddenly needs a factory farm-type facility just to feed his or her family. The added cruelty of breeding, confining, transporting, and slaughtering all these animals is exponential.

By: sherry

sherry — Sun, 17 May 2009 22:44:46 +0000

How I feel has been stated already, so I’ll just add that seeing that picture made me want to throw up and if Matt Miller was trying to lose contributors to The Nature Conservancy with this article, he has definitely been successful with me.

By: Bill Robinson

Bill Robinson — Sun, 17 May 2009 17:00:42 +0000

Animal agriculture can never be sustainable and green, let alone compassionate. Instead folks should be growing soy beans, potatoes, and other veggies in their backyards or vacant lots. Replacing beef with smaller animals means eating A LOT more small animals, possibly dozens more per person per year. The “backyard” farmer suddenly needs a factory farm-type facility just to feed his or her family. The added cruelty of breeding, confining, transporting, and slaughtering all these animals is exponential.

All farmed animal production is worse for the planet than eating a vegan diet: when measuring calories of energy used to produce food calories, soy is 23 times better than chicken and 37 times better than eggs, and corn is 14 times more efficent than chicken and 22 times more efficient than eggs (source-Eshel and Martin, “Diet, Energy and Global Warming” 2005). Also, the Chesapeake Bay and several Southern rivers are grossly polluted from chicken waste.

Increasing the number of farmed animals this drastically (and number of species eaten) simply increases the potential for disease, both to the animals and to humans.