posted August 11, 2014 02:04 PM            

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Nobody likes to see how the sausage—or really, any kind of processed meat product—gets made. Recently a Chinese factory that supplies McDonald’s and other chains made headlines when a video revealing workers’ unhygienic handling of meat surfaced. It posed an important question that most people would rather not dwell on: What are we really eating?

That inspired Hong Kong–based artist Peter Augustus’ Mystery Meat, a series of photographs that replaces familiar cuts of meat in classic American foods with the animal parts they come from.

“It is not meant to be repulsive,” Augustus said in an email. Instead, he intended to highlight the disconnect Western societies have with the food they eat and to spur the debate around the fillers and hormones used in meat.

Originally from Dallas, the artist became fascinated with Hong Kong’s meat shops, where pig heads, intestines, and eyeballs openly hang on hooks.

“As a foreigner from a major city in the West, most of us seldom see anything that even closely represents what kind of animals we are eating when we purchase it,” Augustus said. “It is always prepackaged, nice and neat, showcased in an air-conditioned supermarket.”

After finding a friendly butcher to help him with the project (“She thought it was funny”), Augustus shot the photographs using lighting and background that bring to mind the typical American diner or cafeteria.

“I hope the viewer takes into account what the natural form of their food looks like,” he said.

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posted August 13, 2014 10:33 AM            

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Originally posted by PlutoSurvivor:
I get really grossed out seeing Asian meat markets, with all those body parts stacked and/or hanging in their natural form. Same for any ethnic market, really. Just a different culture here.

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posted August 13, 2014 03:38 PM            

I grew up on a farm where livestock was raised and butchered for food. I have about seen all the parts in their naked form so it truely doesn`t gross me out.
I still eat farm/natural meat but do discern where it comes from and who the butcher is.

By natural I mean grass fed beef, free range chickens, hormone/antibiotic free and such.

posted August 13, 2014 03:51 PM            

Us Parents are Scoundrels.

Scoundrels.

posted August 13, 2014 05:32 PM            

Dont compare your parenting style to everyone else's. Some parents are worse than mere "scoundrels". Don't take one comment from someone here and think you can judge everything about them or know everything they've been through. Don't try to make light of my situation....one you really know nothing about.

posted August 13, 2014 05:54 PM            

if there isn't (which there should be),
then i'm pretty sure you were simply trying
to take an opportunity to jab at me.

posted August 13, 2014 06:07 PM            

If there are more sensitive issues, I would certainly never wish to harm another or say an unkind Word.

posted August 13, 2014 06:16 PM            

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Originally posted by Ellynlvx:
Healthful Eating for your Children didn't seem That bad, T.

If there are more sensitive issues, I would certainly never wish to harm another or say an unkind Word.

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posted August 13, 2014 06:17 PM            

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Originally posted by Ellynlvx:
Grow Up.

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True colors. You grow up too.

posted August 13, 2014 06:59 PM            

This thread went weird. lol

posted August 14, 2014 12:22 PM            

T!

posted August 14, 2014 04:40 PM            

It was a really sharp corner.

Us kids would bring home our bruised Red Cabbage Prizes.