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Eating Man Meat

2009-03-03 · Hank · watch on YouTube · Science & nature · advocacy activism

Hank, in Florida, riffs on the PETA president's will, taste-tests a meatless corn dog, and argues from agricultural land and water figures that America needs a 'coalition of meat eaters for eating less meat': everyone cutting back would help the planet more than a few people giving meat up entirely.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting from Florida, tiny chickens nearly gone; the PETA president's will asks for her body to be used as meat

  • ★ Hank, wearing short sleeves because he is in Florida, says the tiny chickens have nearly left his system and remain only in his larynx; otherwise he feels well. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Florida
  • ★★ Hank reports that PETA's president has rewritten her will, asking that her body's meat be used as meat, her hide for purses, her legs for umbrella stands and an eye sent to the EPA. (playful) (hedged) — 00:00:00
  • ★ Hank says he thinks the PETA president's wish to have her body used as meat is a fine idea. (playful) (hedged) — 00:00:00

00:00:45 — Hank backs PETA's aim of less meat-eating and taste-tests a meatless Morningstar corn dog

  • ★★★ Hank says he is fully in favor of PETA's mission and cause: he wants people to eat less meat, though he loves meat and corn dogs himself. — 00:00:45
  • ★★ Hank tries a meatless corn dog, cooked in the microwave, and finds it surprisingly good, though he wouldn't call it a corn dog. (playful) — 00:00:45
  • ★ Hank says a meatless corn dog has 67% less fat than a real one, so he can eat about three. (playful) — 00:01:16
  • ★★ Hank recommends Morningstar corn dogs to viewers and says the company is not paying him to say so. — 00:01:16

00:01:50 — Share of US farmland, crops and water that goes to feeding livestock

  • ★★★ Hank tells John meat is bad: 80% of America's agricultural land is used to feed animals raised for food. — 00:01:50 · United States
  • ★★ Hank says 80% of corn, 90% of soy and 70% of wheat are fed to animals that people then eat. — 00:01:50
    • number check: 70% — doubtful
  • ★★ Hank says 50% of America's water is used to water crops that are fed to livestock. — 00:01:50 · United States
  • ★★ Hank calls feeding crops to animals for meat dramatically inefficient. — 00:01:50

00:02:15 — Everyone eating somewhat less meat beats a few eating none: a coalition of meat eaters for eating less meat; water cost of beef; sign-off

  • ★★★ Hank argues that splitting people into non-meat-eaters and full meat-eaters leaves perhaps 5% eating none and 95% eating as much as ever, which is not what is needed. (hedged) — 00:02:15
  • ★★★ Hank says what is needed is half or all of the people eating 20% or 50% less meat. — 00:02:15
  • ★★★ Hank proposes a coalition of meat eaters for eating less meat. (hedged) — 00:02:44 > «a coalition of meat eaters for eating less meat»
  • ★★ Hank says he will never give up corn dogs completely but can eat fewer hamburgers, steaks and chicken sandwiches he doesn't love as much. — 00:02:44
  • ★★★ Hank argues that if everyone cuts back on the meat they don't really love or need, it does the world a great deal of good without really hurting anyone. — 00:02:44
  • ★★★ Hank says eating less meat is not about saving cute and cuddly animals but about saving the planet. — 00:02:44
  • ★★ Hank says a pound of potatoes takes 60 gallons of water while a pound of beef takes 12,000 gallons. — 00:02:44
    • number check: 12,000 gallons — doubtful
  • ★★ Hank says America lacks the water, energy and food to spare to support its meat-eating, especially when delicious alternatives exist. — 00:03:14 · United States

Humor (significant)

  • PETA's president wants the meat of her body used as meat. — 00:00:00 > «Mmm, PETA man meat.»
  • A fake corn dog has 67% less fat than a real one. — 00:01:16 > «So I can eat like three of them. Which I probably will do.»
  • Hank says America needs some new non-profit organizations. — 00:02:15 > «the Coalition to Never Allow Beverly Hills Chihuahua to be the only option for an in-flight movie»
  • A second spoof non-profit: the Coalition for a Logarithmic Age Scale, giving you more birthdays when you're younger and like them. — 00:02:44 > «fewer birthdays when you're older, when you don't want to think about them.»

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