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That's not actually true. I saw an episode of a programme with that chef who spent a year in France now lives and works in the South Hams, can't think of his name. Hang on.
That's it, John Burton Race, and the programme on Ch 4 was called French Leave.
Anyway, he visited a farm where fois gras was produced and they showed the farmer feeding the geese. Eventually he admitted that it is possible to produce fois gras just by overfeeding the geese rather than force feeding them, because they're greedy creatures anyway, but it would take longer.... so it's all about the money.
Not had any for years though!
And the strangest thing I can think of right now would be shark.
I eat all sorts of out of the norm foods though. Or at least they seem strange when I talk to most of my friends who hate even olives and mussles (yum!).
Theres a takeaway in trefforest that does crocodile, ostrich, swordfish, squid and a load of other weird things :yuck:
Personally I think its rather a good meat and given loads of calfs are destroyed anyway its something we should eat more of.
I'm disapointed in you, especially given the part of the country you're from, rabbit is excellent, its pretty much the best pie filling.
they aint illegal in england at all, im pretty sure both are widely available if you want it. be bloody stupid if they banned it, stuff like that pisses me off.
On a related topic haggis is banned in Auz, so people have to smuggle it in for Burns Night.
:eek: where?! ill be back in treforrest tomorrow - need to check this place out!! .. maybe not try crocodile tho :sour:
altho ostrich apparently is quite nice!!
I've eaten ostrich. It's very unlike unlike other bird meat, probably closer to beef I would say actually!
Apart from biltong I've only ever had Ostrich from the local curry house, and I suspect it's not really the best way to apreciate it.
It's not illegal, but veal farming is still banned in this country as far as I'm aware. Most veal comes from the Netherlands, but yes, they sell it in the supermarket.
My dog brings one in from the field behind our house from time to time. Needless to say they go straight in the bin. :yuck:
I've eaten:
Rabbit
Horse
Crocodile
Ostrich
Veal
Foi Gras
However anyone who eats dairy products, chicken or pork (unless they ONLY every eat free range) is being highly hypocrytical when they say that veal is wrong because those methords of production are equally cruel.
Indeed, and as that show says;
"If we don't consider consuming the young, male calves of dairy cows, what is to be done about this 'by-product' of the dairy industry?"
As it stands they are just destroyed, is that better than people eating them?
I'd much rather eat a nice bit of beef which comes from a cow who has had a lovely life out in the fields with his mum and friends than drink milk produced by some poor cow who's udders are painfully full of milk, who's had their calf taken away from them when they have only just given birth to it and who faces death if she doesn't get pregnant quickly enough or doesn't produce enough milk. (Obviously i'm totally hyporcritical here as I do eat cheese and cream)
I do what I can and get organic milk from a supplier I know treats the cows well, but with cheese its just impossible, especially given the amount of cheese I eat, which is a lot.
Also if you can find it - not that i ever have but it could be worth looking into biodynamic cheese? I know when we went to visit a biodynamic farm (as part of my degree course) they were really lovely to all thier animals and treated them really well and all the cows still had thier horns becuase they belived that the earths energy was channeled into the cows stomach through thier horns - awww bless.
Bloody hippies! It might be rubbish, but if they are like that then you know the cows are going to be looked after properly. The problem is of course cost, it costs a lot more to look after the animals to that standard.
Foie gras is delicious. And tbh, I've always wanted to try ortolan but that's even illegal in France now. (Although, Mitterrand still had it as his last meal and the illegal part doesn't bother plenty of French traditionalists).
Wiki.
I'd like to try kobe beef too but that will also be waay expensive.
Also your paying the extra cost for a farm which is on ley lines
That really is fantastic, that's got to be one of the best posts I've read on here in a long while!
:yes: I love it.