Saturday, May 28, 2011

Next celebrity fad?

Will be interesting to see if this is part of a new trend:

The Mark Zuckerberg diet - only eat what you kill with your own bare hands

MARK Zuckerberg has a heart after all.

A goat's heart.

And a pig's and a chicken's.

The man popularly portrayed as a cold, ruthless dispatcher of friends is sort of, kind of living up to that reputation by publicly announcing his new challenge for 2011.

"I just killed a pig and a goat," he wrote on his private Facebook page on May 4, after telling his friends that 2011 was the year he would only eat meat that he's slaughtered with his own bare hands.

Zuckerberg sets a single new goal for himself every year.

In 2009, he wore a tie every day. Last year, he learnt Chinese. Both were fairly innocuous, but his latest campaign has caused some consternation amongst his Facebook fans.

Fortune reports that Zuckerberg was introduced to the practice by Silicon Valley chef Jesse Cool in his home town of Palo Alto, California.

She directed him to some nearby farms and helped him knock off a chicken, pig and goat.

"He cut the throat of the goat with a knife, which is the most kind way to do it," Cool told Fortune.

Zuckerberg started his kill-to-eat diet by boiling a live lobster.

His girlfriend Priscilla is also keen consumer and the two recently carved up a chicken together, eating the heart and liver and making stock from the leftovers.

According to Fortune, he posted a pic of the chicken on his Facebook page and listed all the meals he made from it.

"Every year in recent memory, I've taken on a personal challenge - something to learn about the world, expand my interests and teach myself greater discipline," he wrote by way of explanation in an email to Fortune.

"This year, my personal challenge is around being thankful for the food I have to eat.

"I think many people forget that a living being has to die for you to eat meat, so my goal revolves around not letting myself forget that and being thankful for what I have."

Zuckerberg said his next step was to go hunting.


Sourcee: http://www.news.com.au/technology/the-mark-zuckerberg-diet-only-eat-what-you-kill-with-your-own-bare-hands/story-e6frfro0-1226063975449#ixzz1NcbRwQV0

4 comments:

DaddyBear said...

Good for him. If more people learned that meat doesn't grow on little styrofoam trays at the grocery, maybe we'd have a more rational discussion about how that meat is raised and processed.

And if Mr. Zuckerberg wants to try his hand at hunting, I know a few guys who might just hook him up.

Old NFO said...

DB beat me to it... :-)

Suldog said...

Those who would upbraid him for this, but who eat meat themselves, should go back under their rocks.

Morris said...

I don't at all like Zuckerberg, but kudos to him on this point.