Seitan Worship And PETA
No, no, no. Not the bad, fallen angel with the goat hooves, horns and a tail (at least in some popular illustrations). Seitan is flavored wheat gluten which can be made to very closely resemble various kinds of meat in both flavor and texture. And there is a lot of it in pet foods. One of my commenters is a blogger, Terrierman (aka Patrick Burns), who has been following the pet food recall scandal - and it is one - closely. He has a great post up about this substance and its relationship to PETA.
Some reporters seem to have taken to quoting PETA about this dog food tragedy – never mind that PETA knows nothing about dog food or nutrition, opposes ownership of both pet dogs and working dogs, euthanizes more than 85 percent of the dogs given up to to it, and steals dogs from shelters in order to kill them.
The poor quality of the reporting on this dog food story is amazing. For example, in all of the writing, no one has taken the time to ask a basic question: What the hell is wheat gluten, and why is it in our dog food?
Here's the answer: Wheat gluten is synthetic meat made from processed wheat.
In vegetarian cuisine, this stuff is called Seiten, and if PETA had its way, not only would your dogs and cats be eating nothing else, but so would you.
The picture at the top of this post is a Taiwanese can of "mock duck" made from 100 percent wheat gluten.
And you must go over there to see the mock duck meat-like substance to believe it. Pass the orange sauce.
Animals, Blogosphere, World news | Gaius Wednesday, 4 April , 2007
By PBurns, Thursday, 5 April , 2007 @ 3:59 am
Thanks for posting this — very flattered, as this is such a good blog. In other funny news, it turns out the http://www.terrierman.com web site is banned in China, which had me floored as it’s about hunting with terriers. And then it occured to me why. For a post on that see “the daily,” at >> http://terriermandotcom.blogspot.com/2007/04/terrierman-banned-in-china.html . Since this is a different URL than the main web site, it’s not (yet) blocked in China. If you like Seitan for an appetizer, you’ll *love* this fun meal!
I amy have to put “banned in China” on my resume
P.
By Gaius, Thursday, 5 April , 2007 @ 8:18 am
Oh, I suppose I’ll get banned in China now, too. There goes that lucrative Seitan advertising campaign…….