Yo Guber, where's the meat?

But the word 'meat' may not necessarily mean what you think it does.
Mr Crothers says under the Food Standards Code, muscle meat (such as steak) is only one of the body parts that's included in its definition.
"Meat can mean snouts, ears, tongue roots, tendons and blood vessels. And it can come from other animals you may not expect to be eating such as buffalo, camel, deer, goat, hare and rabbit," says Mr Crothers.
Only offal (such as brain, heart, kidney, liver, tongue, tripe) must be specified on the label

http://www.abc.net.au/westernplains/stories/s1635272.htm

In a nut shell I believe people often follow good plans for bad reasons, or bad plans with good reasons. The plans I am briefly discussing here are the choices to eat or not to eat meat pies. And the reasons: They contain unknown (or usually worse if they are known) parts of animals which are considered gross or not gross.
Usually the opinion that they are gross leads to the not eating and the opposite opinion leads to the opposite action. I think both of them are unreasonable. This is because one relies on the person’s emotional response and the other relies on their taste.

Now it’s obvious that my position is that people shouldn’t eat meat pies, because they’re basically rubbish. Now I would have thought this was as pointless as telling people to refrain from eating their own shoes or something of the sort, but I consistently see people stuffing their pie holes so it can’t have been as obvious as I thought. It’s not the eating of pies that I’m concerned with, I couldn’t really care less – except for the fact that it’s obviously bad for peoples health – but what I am worried about is the reasoning behind peoples decisions. And I think you’ll find that once people tackle this problem then, just as a consequence, meat pie consumption will fall – which isn’t really my aim, but what the hell.

Some people are probably thinking that “I already don’t eat meat pies, so I’m in the clear”. The point is why don’t you eat meat pies; because they’re yucky? Or because what they contain is gross? Perhaps it’s because they contain pieces of murdered innocent animals? These are all examples, in my opinion, of misdirected reasoning. The first is a direct result of blindly following your taste impulses, the second is incorrect in thinking that eating certain parts of an animal is somehow worse than eating other parts that we consider normal – and should be considered no different from eating various parts of a plant – and the third, well, that’s a whole discussion in itself that I hope to return to.

The other person is the one who agrees with these previous points but then mistakenly takes them to be in the affirmative to eat the pie. No, this is not so. They are only criticisms of the reasons not to eat pies. Just because reasons against an action are debunked does not automatically imply that the action has any logical reason to be performed. For that we need reasons to eat the pie. “They taste nice” seems to be the only reason given, but is it a reasonable one? I have already covered this under point 1 above.

So in short; no, I don’t believe there are any ‘good’ reasons for eating meat pies, but if you find yourself thinking, “Look, I like the taste alright. Quit jiving me, get of my goddamn back and let me pie you clod.” Well like I said, I don’t care if you eat pies – or your own shoes for that matter – and no one’s going to stop you. But a heart attack might.