topic Tibetan Yak in Kitchen

Tibetan Yak

Nightowlz — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:35:27 GMT

Have you ever ate it? It's suppose to taste like beef but is leaner but still juicy & has 40% more protein 1/6th the fat with no gamey taste. A store where I shop that sells grass fed beef, chicken, etc now has Yak. I received a monthly newsletter about it. I may have to pick some up if they have any in stock when I buy more grass fed hamburger. They just started carrying it so I wonder how it's selling?

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ValuSkr — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:48:12 GMT

I haven't had it, but we're vegetarian for the most part. How much is yak per pound?

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Nightowlz — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 15:58:24 GMT

@ValuSkr wrote:
I haven't had it, but we're vegetarian for the most part. How much is yak per pound?

@ValuSkr She did not put that in her newsletter & I have not been to check it out yet. I'm sure it's expensive like everything else they sell.

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makena — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 16:40:23 GMT

I hate the fact that they raise animals just to kill them.

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CLEM — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 23:04:28 GMT

@makena They raise these animals like we here raise cattle, etc. for sustenance. In the wild animals eat each other for that reason. We just happen to be on top of the food chain. We can not all be vegetarians because there really would not be enough food for all of us.

Animals that get killed just for the sport are the foxes and perhaps some others.

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Tigriss — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 23:11:58 GMT

Don't you grow plants to kill them to eat? Breeding animals to kill to eat is the responsible way to do it for a modern food supply chain. It is also the healthier and cleaner way to provide meat as animals in nature can be contaminated or diseased if you don't know what to look for and their diet is varied, so they also vary in meat quality. We hunt deer, wild boar, and fish. Not everyone can hunt, kill, slaughter, and perserve their own. Small farming is best to ensure quality control and sustainability, where as I am opposed to commercial, large farming where quanitity is sought versus quality. Commercial farming is where contamination occurs due to the size and pressures to grow them fast and slaughter fast. That is the farming most Americans are really referring to. Nightowlz's butcher has grass feed stock, so those are usually small farms rasing animals for quality and not high numbers. This also explains the cost of the products, as smaller farms don't make up their price by huge volume of product.

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Lapdog — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 23:14:19 GMT

Always wanted one.

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ValuSkr — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 23:38:05 GMT

@Lapdog wrote:
Always wanted one.

A yak? Or yak meat?

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chessylady — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 01:54:36 GMT

They don't talk back...

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makena — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 01:58:13 GMT

@CLEM wrote:
@makena They raise these animals like we here raise cattle, etc. for sustenance. In the wild animals eat each other for that reason. We just happen to be on top of the food chain. We can not all be vegetarians because there really would not be enough food for all of us.

Animals that get killed just for the sport are the foxes and perhaps some others.

@CLEM I am aware of everything you said. Wild animals who kill for food is the way of nature. Raising animals for slaughter and sport (to me) is the same thiing. I don't like it.

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Moonchilde — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 02:03:50 GMT

When I lived in LA there was a restaurant that served Nepalese & Tibetan food that had several yak dishes on the menu (I never partook). They got it from Colorado or that vicinity - pastureland area.

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IamMrsG — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 04:51:56 GMT

@chessylady wrote:
They don't talk back...

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aubnwa01 — Fri, 24 Mar 2017 05:43:45 GMT

I've heard that they drink tea with yak butter in it.

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vabreeze — Mon, 27 Mar 2017 22:32:14 GMT

@IamMrsG wrote:
@chessylady wrote:
They don't talk back...

♫Yakety yak, don't talk back!♫