[Hilarysmum]

My daughter went to a London Farmers Market yesterday a v.  small leg of pork bone in was around 25 - 30 £

[Eve]

have asked if we can watch the killing. i think we should as its part of the process.

I agree, and I want to see it as well from now on. I'm not sure yet how I'll deal with it, but if you eat meat then really you ought to be able to face up to that part of it... 

We heard of an acquintance of ours who says (behind our backs) that she is horrified that we can have our own animals killed - what dreadful people we must be! Yet she buys supermarket meat... 

[Hilarysmum]

Oh Eve that is the standard remark from people who leave their brains in the car when they enter a supermarket.  my response now is a link to any of the sites showing how pigs are really reared in elevages.  Doesnt change their mind but does shut them up for a while.

[rbarlo32]

yes its a very unrealistic view. they don't seem to understand were there meat comes from. they think pigs are just to cute to eat. now of course they are very friendly wilst chewing on a bit of you. but please these folks are totally lost from there food.

[Eve]

people who leave their brains in the car when they enter a supermarket

 

[princesspiggy]

eve, wev had that, how cud we raise them and then eat them? especially feed them to your kids? in my opinion meat youve raised yourself in a safe happy environment is the best way to do it if you have the opportunity.  it teaches kids the real value of meat. we eat mainly veggie unless we have killed it ourselves. a friend did our shopping for us when we were stuck in snow, bought loads of chicken joints etc. i felt quite appalled. so many chicken killed and packaged with no thought to them at all. a minute ago my toddler walked past a cockeral hanging in porch waiting to be plucked, and casually mentioned that was for dinner. id rather she had that knowledge rather than those kids on KFC advert on tv stuffing chicken in their mouths with idea at all. (il get off my soapbox now but feel strongly about this!) 

[Eve]

Your children are lucky, I was embarassingly old before I learned that bacon comes from a pig and not a cow! 

Cheap meat looks revolting to me - 3 chickens for £10 but they were treated well?? Puh-leeze! I just can't buy that stuff, I'd rather have no meat at all. I started having pigs because I knew my husband still bought ham sandwiches (yuck!), and then I fell in love with the little darlings... 

Hopefully it'll be our own chickens from next year. Let's see how many people will accuse us of being cruel but happily accept some free eggs! 

[princesspiggy]

thats it exactly. our neighbours said they couldnt possibly eat an animal they had seen walking around the week before. i said id rather eat an animal thats had a happy life, she looked at me as if i was so strange! tho i do admit after we had our 1st pigs killed, i couldnt contemplate eating them for about 2 months. it was a steep learning curve that took a while to digest (excuse the pun!) heres the odd bit - i was a vegetarian for 7 years cos i was concerned about their welfare, but now i can rear it myself im happy to eat it. 

[princesspiggy]

  thats got me thinking, my friend is a veggie - because her dad use to shoot rabbits, pheasants and deer etc and she use to see them hanging - put her off. and if you asked my kids, theyd rather eat KFC anyday - i do hope they turn into sane adults - lol   

[Hermit]

Did you get them done Paul?

[rbarlo32]

nope. ruth chickened out this morning. had the trailer ready just the blowing snow spooked her. i don't blame her it was nasty a 7am. looks like they are going to have a christmas after all. pity really they are getting big 104 and 114 kg.

[Eve]

@Princesspiggy:

i was a vegetarian for 7 years ... now i can rear it myself im happy to eat it

Same here!
A friend's father used to shoot as well when she was a child, and they ate everything he shot. But the rest of that meat-eating village considered my friend's father barbaric, and one day she came outside where her little doll's pram was standing, and someone had put a dead bloodied rabbit in it!!   


@Paul: they'll give you something to talk about with the family over Christmas! Piggy-back for the children!

[princesspiggy]

bunny boiler comes to mind! thats actually shocking.
wer u a veggie too?

[robert waddell]

thats the whole point of rearing it yourself you know it has had the best life and it has given its all to provide you with the tastiest meat possible

[Hilarysmum]

"But the rest of that meat-eating village considered my friend's father barbaric"

Its about time school children were taught exactly where meat comes from and how it is reared.