What's it all about: Please pass the tripe

According to the Dept. of Agriculture, we eat nearly 60 tons of food over our lifetime - I suddenly feel enormous! And we eat the darndest things, especially on the meat side. Back in the 40s and 50s, when I was growing up, consuming an animal from nose to tail seemed to be the goal. Upton Sinclair wrote in his 1906 novel, “The Jungle” describing hog processing, “We use everything but the squeal.”

 


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