#Mock Meat

[buffetlicious]

Haven’t been editing my pictures recently as I am either tired or busy with other chores and tasks. Anyway, here is my brunch of Vegetarian Rice (斋饭) takeaway from nearby coffee shop. First on the left is sweet & sour (imitation) pork followed by the yummy curry mock mutton & potato cubes with stir-fried Sichuan vegetable (榨菜) over it. Our Asian vegetarian foods are not exactly just the leafy salad kind popular in the western countries. Ours also included a whole range of make-believe non-meat products made from typically flour and beans like those shown above.

[wikipediapictures]

Meat alternative

“Sandwich made of tempe, eaten at the Juice ja Cafe in Ubud in Bali, Indonesia.” - via Wikimedia Commons

[desitreatfood]

Restaurant-Style Mock Meat Curry (Desi Treat Recipe) | Easy Vegan Dinner

[risoria]

I’m so goddamn tired. I hate it here so fucking badly. I hate it here. It’s 2024. We know better and yet we are pushing these ads and these dogs everywhere, STILL - why do we as a society love animal cruelty so much?? I will never understand.

I’m going to be brutally honest - people are stupid. People will not open their phones to google for three minutes before buying an expensive dog, that lives for 15 years - and media affects people IMMENSELY. Remember how everyone and their mom got a husky (an extremely hard dog to keep, because they’re working sled dogs) after game of thrones? How every single child got a rat after ratattouille, and how most likely a lot of them were abandoned? This happens with frenchies and pugs as well because they are featured EVERYWHERE.

”Oh wow its so ugly i love it ;;” ”Oh it’s so cute I want one!!” No. Dogs who need surgery where you cut their nostrils open just to be able to breathe a /little/ better is not something you should want or support. Animal cruelty is not something you should want or support.

This is a chart for assessing stenotic (pinched) nares in brachycephalic dogs. The open nares seen here are not even actual normal nares - this is what they look like in non-brachy dogs.

There is no other way to say this: these dogs can’t breathe. That’s why they make noises like little pigs - they can’t actually get sufficient air into their lungs because their airways are so closed. They are partially suffocating - every single minute of every day.

Here’s the reasons why:

- the nostrils are closed. you can see how hard and panic-inducing it is to ”breathe” like that by pinchig your own nostrils for a little while. it’s very common to have surgery to cut the nostrils open - but even if it might help a little bit they’re only ONE reason why these dogs suffer

- the face is flattened - this is why the tongue cant actually fit in their mouths, which of course makes the tongue constantly dry and uncomfortable. they also have teeth problems because, again, the teeth literally cant fit in their mouths. they also can’t cool down the way dogs normally do by panting - because the area in their nasal cavity where this happens is extremely small. this, together with the breathing issue, makes them extremely prone to over-heating and dying as a result.

- their soft palates are, again, too big for their mouths and make the dogs’ airways more closed as a result. surgery to cut this soft tissue away is common.

- their laryngeal sacculis are often inverted - think of a pocket of your trousers that is turned inside out. these sacs are located in the back of the throat and further obstruct the airways

- laryngeal collapse is also not uncommon

- their tracheas are VERY thin. That’s why breeding for a different type of bulldog and pug etc is important and thats why ONLY opening the nares and lengthening the snout is not the answer - if the trachea is the dimension of a straw, they will still be unable to breathe properly - and you can’t assess this without image diagnostics, of course…

- because these dogs struggle to breathe and are prone to over-heating they can have trouble exercising and this easily get overweight. The extra fat will collect around the neck, amongst other places, and this can pinch the anatomy of the throat and airways of the neck even further

- some symptoms of BOAS (brachycephalic obstructive airway syndrome) that people find ~cute and unique include:

-> snoring loudly and snorting when breathing. This is because of the obstructed airways and means they struggle to breathe both while asleep and while exercising/walking

-> ”smiling” (pulling corners of the mouth up) and rolling the tip of the tongue is something seen when the dog is labouring to breathe

-> these dogs often find toys to keep in their mouths when they sleep - this is not normal, they do this deliberately because they can’t breathe.

-> these dogs are the ONLY dogs who will be happy about having a tube inserted into their trachea while undergoing surgery. Normally you remove this the second the dog starts to come to - because it is extremely uncomfortable having essentially a straw inside your airways - but for brachy dogs they enjoy being able to breathe fairly comfortably and they will sit fully awake with the tube for long periods of time. It’s heartbreaking.

PLEASE don’t get these dogs and please call out advertisements etc promoting them - because we all know that they are already extremely popular and that marketing sells even more of them. It’s downright evil, and it’s animal cruelty in the name of ~marketing. Yes of course there’s a lot of them in shelters needing adoption - BUT it’s very important to know what you’re getting into. A lot of these dogs DO need surgery to be able to breathe at least partially, and these are invasive and very expensive.

This was just off the top of my head but here’s a link with more info -> BOAS in dogs

[faunandfloraas]

you can make fun of felix for sounding dumb when he speaks, he does say some very funny and questionable, somewhat bizarre things at times, but there's a certain point where I am going to judge you for it a little bit <3

[lynxfrost13]

If HOPRs had a corrupted version (there’s no good reason for one to be on sierpinski since they’re supposed to all be decommissioned) I think they’d fill the role of classic spitter enemy. They’ve got gross goopy heads and I think they’d essentially try to projectile spit evil juice that attracts other corrupted replikas to you

[quietwingsinthesky]

my self-insert ass would get killed if allowed within five feet of any angel though because im not a winchester and i cant keep my fucking mouth shut

[sunlitmcgee]

Gonna say something taht might get me swarmed by radfems but truth be fucking told, the penis and genitals in general are like. the least upsetting part of being assaulted by a cis guy with a dick. Like I am gonna be really honest out of all the stuff I've had to work and undo, fear of penis is very low on the scale of stuff that was fucked up afterwards. like it's a meat stick. it's . it's far from the worst part of the experience

[elitehanitje]

Jimmy Fallon mocking and body shaming Shahid Khan cemented my hatred of him. He'd done this before when he insulted the president of my country's name, just because he couldn't pronounce his name and the fact it sounded funny to him. It was like Tina Fey insulted other Asian names because it sounded weird in English. And yes, I agree that Shahid Khan and Tony Khan always get this kind of treatment because they're not white (although technically Tony is half-white if you want to be technical about it).

[buffetlicious]

Brunch is a takeaway box of Vegetarian Rice (斋饭) from the nearby coffee shop. Starting with my favourite curry mock mutton & potato, bitter gourd & carrot omelette and creamy sweet mock pork ribs that is still “pink” inside. :D The “bone” you see is a shaved stick of sugarcane.

[wikipediapictures]

Meat alternative

“An employee of Tender pulling apart their plant-based pulled pork to show its texture.” - via Wikimedia Commons

[bandcampsnoop]

10/19/24.

The first songs on Mock Media's LP "Mock Media II" have a jagged post punk sound that recalls Wire and Pere Ubu. When I read the introductory to the band, I saw that members were also in Pottery, Crack Cloud, and Painted Fruit ("Fruit Salad" is a gem of a record...apparently the band used to be Painted Fruits and ended up dropping the 's'). What I love about this release is the sharp taken about halfway through the album. Suddenly, Mock Media are a beautiful, soulful, harmonizing folk band.

Mock Media is based in Vernon, British Columbia. This LP was originally issued by Meat Machine, but is now being reissued by Mac's Record Label (Mac DeMarco's label if you didn't know).

The "independent record label group" Tin Angel Records, Meat Machine, and Unheard of Hope, have been putting out some great music lately. Listen to Cistern.

[therecipelibrary]

Mock Meat Cakes

-Food and Health, no date

[tigergendermoved2tigergender]

I am a chronic oversharer and I love describing myself but it still baffles me to see how much information people are willing to divulge in their carrds. Saw one dude I was lookin at randomly list every single label (like 20 in total) they used, every diagnosed mental and physical illness, every self diagnosed mental illness, every suspected mental illness, every single point of privilege they had, their religious views, their blood type, their triggers..... I understand wanting to show pride in your identity but this is just so unsafe. Do you know how easy it would be to absolutely fuck up your business with all of this info? Why do you trust internet strangers so much that you are willing to tell them every point of vulnerability you have while pointing them to where the knives are held. Why do you feel the need to disclaim every single aspect of yourself that may be relevant to your sociopolitical views in the case somebody even thinks about calling you out for some privilege they think you probably have. Why lay yourself so bare on the wild west of the internet for a blog where you don't even really speak? This person was OLDER than me which is remarkable because I assumed it would be the kids who so blatantly don't get internet safety but damn

[glass-expanse]

Calling my potato wedges jojos cuz they are bizarre

Truly your fridge is an, er, adventurous place for food to be...

[satan-is-obsessed]

confession my teen niece annoyed the shit out of me by being a teen on one of the worst days and in trying to not be a complete asshole to her over the stupidest shit she had problems with i started responding to her in a mocking tone like she does to everyone and then i stayed up at night thinking I'm an absolute child for doing that