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Originally Posted by Giggleton
Well, your locality might have legislations concerning the preparation of cooked foods. This might hinder your consumption of a cooked steak on the premises of a particular Safeway. But I assure you that if you were to ask for a sample of meat from the meat counter of your local Safeway, that the proprietor behind the counter would be happy to provide you with one. Rare meat is not for everyone of course, but the taste should give you an inclination as to what the meat will taste like when it is properly prepared.
I still think that many are locked into the idea of physical information. Why, if a text is available as a stream of electrons, should we have to wait in order to read it?
And if a text is currently not available thus, should those who undertake to transfer the text into electrons be punished for doing so???
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I know that in Canada and most of the United States it is illegal to serve raw meat because of the mad cow disease, e-coli, parasites etc., and most stores and restaurants would not let you eat a raw steak on the premises as they can be sued. You obviously patronise a Safeway with no knowledge of food safety and the legal consequences. (Actually I am pretty sure you are making the whole thing up about raw meat samples as no meat department manager could be that stupid).
And why should we not wait unless we are able and willing to pay for something. Nothing to do with electrons. Easy to steal does not make it right to steal. Someone worked to produce the book. We can work and pay money to get the book or wait until we can legitimately get it from the library.
And any educational justification falls into absurdity if presented by someone who actually worked for Safeway and says that they hand out tasty samples of raw beef.
Helen