Unethical Grilling (a multipart series) Part 1

I'd like to tell a story. It is a story about a boy, his grill, and a calf named 'Din-din'. Din-din was born to a dairy cow named Ida. Unfortunately, Din-din could not produce milk because he was a boy. So he was sent to the veal farm. There Din-din was fed an iron deficient diet to keep the color of his flesh pale and he lived a life of leisure in a little box where he didn't have to exercise one bit. One day Din-din was slaughtered and sent to Publix. The boy with the grill saw Din-din's rib chop on sale and out of respect for Din-din, bought the flesh of this expired bovine and took it home. In honor of Din-din's sacrifice and in commemoration of his short life, the boy with the grill grilled Din-din up hickory-style with some shrimp and asparagus. He will not have died for nothing.



The boy was new to the grill and grilling Din-din, so when he cut into Din-din, he discovered that the meat was way undercooked. The boy with the grill likes his meat rare, but his carnivorous appetite was no match for the squishy pink rare flesh of Din-din. So, Din-din went back on the grill and became this nicely colored still rare piece of meat: