Quote Originally Posted by Winton Applegate View Post
Originally Posted by Pat Barry
What if the cow died from old age? Is that a problem to vegans?

I love questions like that . Going from biology class to government class I used to attempt to apply what I learned in school from one class in another.
Often the result as a deadly silent class room, something even the teachers could not achieve (perhaps I missed my calling and should have been a school teacher ( I leave that for you dear reader to judge)).

Any way here goes:
Is it ok to take said flesh off cow if cow died of natural causes ?
It has been noted in this forum by David W. and others, not by me, that one of the prize strops is human flesh properly prepared.
It has been again stated here palm stropping is well worth doing.
Your Aunt Matilda has just died.
Humans are part of the animal kingdom.
Is it cool to . . .
Well back in the day I would have been more straight forward and asked if one then . . .
I don't want to further add too much fan to the hurricane that I may be slightly bent but . . .
I think you can see where that was rapidly going.
A vegan and many others may feel that it is not right to dismember any living creature and all should be respected equally after death.
Of coarse a cheetah or mountain lion, which I have seen the latter walk through our yard here, might feel differently but again would make no distinction between cow, rabbit or human. As long as it didn't fight back too much it would smack down any one of them with relish.
Using Aunt Matilda sounds like something Ed Gein would have done had he been a woodworker.
Using a deceased animal carcass doesn't seem disrespectful to me, in fact using the resource that is available instead of just letting it waste away seems much more in tune with appreciating and celebrating life.
As far as stropping though, using that super sharp chisel in the palm of you hand seems ludicrous, I strop on my blue jeans pant leg.