Meathooked

Meathooked: The Gallery

Anomalocaris (© Quade Paul) Anomalocaris, the "king" of Earth's earliest meat-eaters, the largest carnivore of the Cambrian and the first known apex predator, a carnivore that sits at the top of its food chain	Mt Nebo, Jordan Qumran, the site of vegetarian Christianity	The Only Place Steakhouse The famous steakhouse in Bengaluru, India. India is the world's 2nd largest exporter of beef
Trying beefsteak in India The Only Place	Holy cows In India, cows are everywhere... Even on the steps of Ernst & Young offices	McDonald's in India Check out the veggie burgers
Suguna Daily Fressh Almost 70% India lives on less than $2 a day. Suguna chicken breast - $2.5 /pound	Meat taboos A restaurant menu in Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam (check out the field mice)	Meat taboos Fried scorpions for sale, Beijing, China
Kobe beef on offer in NYC Almost certainly NOT real Kobe beef. If you think you ate Kobe beef in the US before 2012, you can be certain you got scammed (unless someone smuggled it for you in a suitcase). In the States, you can eat a real Kobe steak at only a few restaurants, such as one at the Wynn resort in Las Vegas or 212 Steakhouse on East Fifty-Third Street in New York. Most of the other “Kobe” is not the real thing	Temple of pythons, Benin Researching symbolism of meat in West Africa	Voodoo Temple, Benin Researching symbolism of meat in West Africa & the notion that "you are what you eat"
Voodoo priestess, Benin, West Africa Naked shoulders indicate a voodoo priestess	Animal sacrifice, Benin	Skulls for sale Togo, West Africa
Famed Philly Cheesesteaks What makes them so appealing? Umami + fat + Maillard reaction	Shrink wrapped dinosaur leg Growing meat in the lab may open up interesting possibilities...	Meatfruits Growing meat in a lab may offer interesting possibilities...
Snack time! Crickets - ready to try. Researching chapter 12 on the future of meat	The future of protein Insects 3D printed by designer Susana Soares. Yes, edible	Toffee Scorpion Candy Would you eat a chocolate covered scorpion? Edible insects - the protein of the future? (As seen in the Selfridges department store, London, UK)
Scorpion candy	Edible insects continued Yes, that's a worm lollipop. Are edible insects the protein of the future? (As seen in the Selfridges department store, London, UK)	Ifor's "Kobe" beef cattle On the fields of Wales
Ifor's "Kobe" beef cattle In their stalls, awaiting massage and beer. It's a myth that in Japan Kobe beef cattle receive massages and beer. According to the official website of the Kobe Beef Marketing & Distribution Promotion Association: “There have been almost no cases of cows being raised on beer,” and “massage itself neither softens meat nor increases the amount of marbling.”	Beer in the trough at Ifor's farm Local lager awaits the tongues of "Kobe" cattle	Penn State's Meat Lab Penn State University Meats Lab, a sixteen-thousand-square-foot facility in State College, designed for research of animal slaughter and processing, where I’ve come to learn how, and how not, to make meat taste good
Penn State's Meat Lab A blue hard hat and a white overcoat I'm just about to wear before my tour of the Penn State's Meat Lab	Dogs as pets in China Chinese may slaughter 10,000 dogs during Yulin festival, but they also spend $1.5bln pampering pets	Pets vs. Meat A pet dog rests under a table in a Parisian restaurant as a waitress takes order for beef