Lost Patreons over 🥩 ...
Added 2019-03-04 16:58:26 +0000 UTCWe lost several long term Patron supporters over the last meat video. The thing is — it’s sort of a video to respect the life of livestock while alive and thus respect the meat more and maybe eat better sourced meat, which is all actually good! ... but opinions are strong and I understand the times we live in. I know I may not always make content that you support but I do try my best not to be divisive in my choices. Wagyu is one the most misunderstood topics because very few YouTubers do anything more than eat it. Very few understand why it’s A5 or what makes it special beyond just tasting good. I believe I should go after a story and show you something you’ve never seen before in a new way, like a drive thru ramen shop or working at a monkey park. Your support is how I make it possible so if you ever feel strongly about something, please write me a direct message here and I will read and reply. Good communication is how we change the world, listen more to each other. Thank you all again - this will be a topic for our first live Q&A this weekend! Back to Tokyo tomorrow - not as much time to live stream as I’d like but the main channel episodes will be quite interesting. Filmed a members only ramen shop!!! Absolutely insane story!! 😂 good night from Kyoto! -John
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i respect anyone who stays true to there beliefs, even if i don't agree with them.
Happy Rails
2020-01-02 03:13:01 +0000 UTCWell our cattle weren't aggressive all the time. The only fighting that really took place were between the bulls. You have a single bull with all his lady cows and he is the most chilliest of the group. I remember walking through the pen so many times and he wouldn't even give me a second glance. But if you put two bulls in the same pen . . . it was weird. Sometimes they would just ignore one another and then other times it's as if they were the worst of enemies. But with the cows, they were more aggressive during calving season (for obvious reasons) . We are walking through the pens checking on their calves to make sure they are healthy and doing fine, but the new mothers who aren't sure why we are there become very protective and the next thing you know you are looking for the closest fence to leap over. Also mothers would sometimes fight over calves if perhaps one had passed away, or they didn't accept the one they had. Now that's when the fights could get nasty; mother cow vs mother cow. The only time we had to be aggressive towards them was during the spring time. That's when we gave them their yearly medicine, made sure the tags on their ears were still good, maybe clip a few horns and unfortunately brand them. That's the only part I didn't like was when my dad branded them; however he explained that he didn't like it either, but it was the only way to make sure to mark that the cattle were ours. You can remove tags and people will claim that it's their cow, when clearly you know it's yours. Also cattle skin is a lot tougher, especially on the rump so that's were he made sure to brand them. From October to April we kept the cows at the farm in the big pens, feeding them every day, making sure to keep them warm during the cold (cause Canada gets fricken cold here) and calving season was always February and March. Mid April we would give them check ups like I said and then we moved them out to pasture. Huge fields were they could roam all they want and eat grass. We would only check on them every few days to make sure the fences were sturdy and they had lots of water. Then at the farm dad would go in the cow pens and smooth the ground out with the tractor so that it would be ready for October when the cows returned. I feel that for the most part our cows were relaxed, the odd time was a little stressful for them but . . . I know that not all farmers do what we did. Seeing the farm in your video it reminded me of the dairy cows out here; now those are some chilled and lazy cows. To be completely honest I don't like buying beef from the stores here. I don't know where it's come from, I don't know if the farmer who raised it was good to his cows and they really dye the meat red here. When I look at it in the store in my mind I'm like "That's not what beef looks like....." So we try really hard to go to the local butcher shops because I know the meat is local and I know the farmers that raised those cows. Sorry this reply turned out way longer than I wanted it to!
Lynnsey Riley
2019-03-25 15:35:23 +0000 UTCInteresting!! I think the Wagyu are very relaxed and don’t typically show any aggression. They’re kind of lazy — like doing nothing in their areas. I don’t see any aggression in their eyes. I was told one reason for the rings in their nose is that they’re so lazy, they don’t like to get up so the ring gets them to move when needed causing the least stress. They don’t fight, just move. I am so curious to know more about this, is meat quality getting worse to make more for less? I wang to make sure we’re eating better or worse than we think.
ONLY in JAPAN
2019-03-25 14:59:43 +0000 UTCI honestly thought the video was done informatively and professionally. It was very interesting to see how the process is done in Japan. I live in Canada, Alberta and we raised cattle for many years. So for my whole life I’ve had an appreciation for where the meat I eat comes from and I’ve seen the whole process behind it (granted it was all local butcher shops and not huge meat processing plants). I remember our meat tasting sooo delicious and now when I buy it from a store....it just doesn’t taste the same. I thought this video was awesome and I can’t wait to try the beef over there. I think the only thing I was surprised by in the video was that all the cattle still had their horns. It’s common for us over here to remove them since they can cause serious injury not only to humans but to other cows if they wanted to fight (it’s actually how my great-great grandfather passed away, cow horn through the neck)
Lynnsey Riley
2019-03-23 14:48:29 +0000 UTCSorry to ask but I was just curious what camera you used for this? Many thanks
CityStrider
2019-03-18 23:07:40 +0000 UTCWhen I was a child in Wisconsin (Milwaukee) we went on a school field trip to a meat processing plant not sure I was ready at 10 years old. John your presentation was outstanding, informative, respectful, and showed the great lengths the farmer has taken in respect of the animals in his care. My uncles still are farming today. The average farmer make under .90 per hour. The minimum wage is 7.50 us Thank you for all you do.
Top shelf
2019-03-10 01:07:44 +0000 UTCOne meat eater here ready for duty.
Top shelf
2019-03-10 00:53:38 +0000 UTCJohn, thank you for all that you do. As always, the work that you put in and the love you have for the people and the culture was shown in this video. I have a deeper understanding of "itadakimasu". Keep up the great work! You have taught me so much about life in Japan that I cannot find anywhere else. I have a great appreciation for the people and culture. Thank you for sharing your experiences with us. I am glad to support you on Patreon.
Ryan Imamoto
2019-03-07 08:41:54 +0000 UTCThe love and support not just for me but for each other in this post is inspiring! Thank you - I won’t change a thing and back at it this evening!!
ONLY in JAPAN
2019-03-05 17:12:27 +0000 UTCI'm sure they will still be watching.
Steve Ridgeway - NRT GO
2019-03-05 12:38:40 +0000 UTCI understand your reaction. Your work compels people and more will come. Perhaps you shouldn't have shown the cows and only shown the meat in the styrofoam trays. (sarcasm) Then they would still love you. I would say that people are pitiful, but pity is deserved on some level. They're just sad. They watched too many animal cartoons in their formative years.
Steve Ridgeway - NRT GO
2019-03-05 12:37:32 +0000 UTC
