http://www.offalgood.com/site/blog/uncategorized/who-are-the-modern-offal-eaters/ Chef Chris Cosentino's guide to all good guts. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:39:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 http://www.offalgood.com/site/blog/uncategorized/who-are-the-modern-offal-eaters/#comment-27530 Michele Wed, 01 Aug 2007 16:48:13 +0000 http://www.offalgood.com/site/blog/uncategorized/who-are-the-modern-offal-eaters/#comment-27530 Strange that no-one mentions the two very distinguishing characteristics of offal. One is that it is now the most expensive animal-meat, by weight, that one can purchase in the West. There is a strange meat-industry prejudice against developing the number of offal-eaters. In London I can buy exquisite lambs' offal in sophisticated Middle Eastern food shops -- but how much of the West has those? There are delicious pates etc to be made of the offal that are frankly unaffordable to even enthusiasts. Second, offal needs to be eaten -- not only for the environmental principle that the "whole animal" is appreciating the aniaml itself ... but also because discarded offal is a big source of atmosphere-polluting methane. There are some energy plants that use offal in industrial amounts to create methane as a harnessed energy, but most is about 20 times as bad for the atmosphere as your car. For that matter, your own innards are methane generators -- and we all might as well sustain our innards by digesting the innards of other animals, and