Luma

OK so it is not fit for human consumption then.

My gut instinct told me it was dodgy meat.

Vash the Stampede

Good quality veal is perfectly fit for human consumption (albeit ethically questionable).

NELBHOY

I wouldn't eat it either. Never liked pig.

sonlymewalter

I knew someone who worked in a slaughter house.

He said the only time he found it hard to do was when the calves looked at him and wanted to suckle his fingers, and he had to kill them.

I still can't eat veal. Can't condone it at such a young age.

Broad Shoulders

yeah but you'll take a disabled parking spot won't you!

sonlymewalter

I also kill puppies and kittens

alipally

Won't eat Veal, it's kept in a small stall and fed an low iron diet to ensure pale meat. Won't eat Aussie pork either unless it's organic. Kept in conditions that are banned in the UK
Animal husbandry techniques in Australia questionable to my thinking....

E.g> Mulesing... I'll never buy Australian wool or a pair of Ugg boots for this reason too.

Don't get me wrong, I'm a meat eater, I really like meat, but I honestly find it difficult to eat anything that spent it's short life suffering. If we're going to eat them, then we have a responsibility to ensure that they have a life that is free from suffering. That includes the slaughtering process as well.

After living in Rural England for most of my adult life, I'm aware of how animals are kept and also how they should be kept. If more people took an ethical approach to their food, less animals would suffer unecessarily.

(Ali steps of soap box!)

Kooky.

I'm with you, Ali. As a farm girl I am quite pragmatic about meat; however as somebody who has bottle-fed calves and warmed lambs by the rayburn I could never eat them.

(I don't eat much meat at all, really, but I do love seafood and I know how hard it is to be a strict vegetarian without cooking every meal yourself, of which I am definitely not a fan.)

sonlymewalter

To be honest I hate the fact we have to kill to eat.

I could quite easily be a vegetarian ...if I didn't like bacon sarnies as much

Kooky.

Yeah, that's another one, although TBH I'm finding these days that the thought of one is more scrummy than the reality.

I work with a lot of vegetarians. I may yet become one, but I need to work out for myself the hypocrisy of being vegetarian and wearing leather, etc.

twizzle

I'm laughing so much the tears are streaming down

sonlymewalter

That is so true. But then the same applies to a lot of foods I fancy. I can't wait to eat it and then I'm disspointed when I do

I've toyed with this on and off for years and I guess I'm basically a lazy sod. In my case it's too much hard work. I've figured at least if it's being eaten then it's not been killed for fun but for food [can't stand hunting for recreation] Animals kill each other in the wild so I rationalise that we're just perpetuating the food chain. Maybe I'm justifying it in my mind

It always upsets me when I see animals in trucks and it's a hot day. I wonder if they've been travelling far, if they're too cramped and too hot and it's their last day

Broad Shoulders

when do you get the chance to eat proper bacon sarnies over here?

Broad Shoulders

yeah but animals in the wild don't contain other animals and breed them to eat

Wol

>>I've toyed with this on and off for years and I guess I'm basically a lazy sod. In my case it's too much hard work. I've figured at least if it's being eaten then it's not been killed for fun but for food [can't stand hunting for recreation] Animals kill each other in the wild so I rationalise that we're just perpetuating the food chain. Maybe I'm justifying it in my mind<<

I was talking to the (American) lawyer B/F of a hostie, when flying to Anchorage a few years back: his idea fun was to take a helicopter out to the Northern Alaska snowfields and shoot bears from it. Didn't change my opinion of lawyers that much <g>.