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Dirt After Dark: Dining Out in Grossville

This month, we're tackling the greasy issue of the role of meat in our diet, our society, and our evolution. Not just any meat, though! Raw meat. And not just any raw meat, though! Rotten, raw meat. 

Content note, we go some pretty disgusting places this episode, including descriptions of putrefied meat and and lens into the more sinister aspects of a fringe diet. We give a heads up when we get there, but there's some anti-neurodivergent ableism and an appearance of the r-slur.

We're not linking to the Reddit page or the Twitter accounts (sorry?), but if you're going to check out any of the news stories listed below, please be aware that there are so, so, so many stock photos of raw meat. 

Putrid Meat and Fish in the Eurasian Middle and Upper Paleolithic:Are We Missing a Key Part of Neanderthal and Modern Human Diet? (PaleoAnthropology, via Academia.edu)

Great apes prefer cooked food (Journal of Human Evolution)

Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human (via WorldCat)

Jordan Peterson Says Meat Cured His Depression. Now His Daughter Is Charging People To Chat About The “Carnivore Diet.” (Buzzfeed)

How Red Meat Became the Red Pill for the Alt-Right (The Nation)

Episode 139 - Of Meat and Men: How Beef Became Synonymous with Settler-Colonial Domination (Citations Needed)

Spin February 1999 (truly a cave of monstrous wonders)

More Clarity On Food-borne Bacterial Contamination (aajonus.online)

Some People Are Trying To Get High By Eating Raw, Rotten Meat (Lad Bible)

Man Lets Beef Rot For Months To Get 'Drunk' In 'High Meat' Craze (Lad Bible)

People Claim Eating Old Raw Meat Gets Them High (Vice)

People are eating fermented meat to get high. Here's why that's dangerous (cnet)

Nature's Spoils (The New Yorker)

And when we mentioned "Weiss and Springer" at the end, we were talking the book discussed in this Twitter thread and the focus of this nightmare.

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As science communicators in anthropology and archaeology, we hosts of The Dirt acknowledge that we hold a position of considerable privilege and opportunity, and commit ourselves to continuous learning, unlearning and reflection. We recognize that our disciplines, as well as our own lives, are rooted in and propped up by settler colonialism, white supremacy, and dispossession.

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