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==== Extract of the talk given during [[The Soft Protest, re-chewing & Digest|The Soft Protest, re-chewing & Digest]] | ==== Extract of the talk given during [[The Soft Protest, re-chewing & Digest|The Soft Protest, re-chewing & Digest]]’s dinner<br>in October 2019 at [http://www.corridorprojectspace.com/artfood/ Corridor project space] in Amsterdam. ==== | ||
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“The cow’s digestive system is a wonderful machine: it allows cows to get energy from an undisputed resource that humans can’t digest: grass. 1/4 of Earth’s land area being grasslands it allowed herds of ruminants to thrive across the Old World, even before mankind domesticated them. | “The cow’s digestive system is a wonderful machine: it allows cows to get energy from an undisputed resource that humans can’t digest: grass. 1/4 of Earth’s land area being grasslands it allowed herds of ruminants to thrive across the Old World, even before mankind domesticated them. | ||
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If we were to reduce the world’s herd for the good of the environment, it is safe to say that smaller quantities of meat would be available for consumption. One solution could be therefore to re-introduce parts of the animal which are, in countries like the Netherlands, considered like bi-products: e.g. intestins, stomach, tongue, etc… In many neighboring countries, such parts are still eaten, making use of the cow in its entirety as well as of the veal (which has to be slaughtered every year, to allow the cow to produce milk).” | If we were to reduce the world’s herd for the good of the environment, it is safe to say that smaller quantities of meat would be available for consumption. One solution could be therefore to re-introduce parts of the animal which are, in countries like the Netherlands, considered like bi-products: e.g. intestins, stomach, tongue, etc… In many neighboring countries, such parts are still eaten, making use of the cow in its entirety as well as of the veal (which has to be slaughtered every year, to allow the cow to produce milk).” | ||
== Exhibition of the | == Exhibition of the cow’s digestive system == | ||
To illustrate our talk on the | To illustrate our talk on the cow’s digestive’s system as well as the use in cooking of what is often considered as “by-products” (ergo: tongue, tripes, stomach, etc.) of the meat and dairy industry, ceramist Denise Aimee Rijnen ([https://darcmatter.org/ Darc matter ceramics]) produced two custom platters for a veal tongue and its digestive system. These plates were exhibited during the following week as part of the exhibition and transformed again into raw clay.<ref>The platters had not been fired on purpose to allow them to be recycled.</ref> | ||
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