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Kill it, Cook it, Eat it!
Skive
Posts: 15,286 Skive's The Limit
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/programmes/kill_it/
Anybody who eats meat should make an effort to watch this.
Tonight was the story of how beef ends up on your plate, tomorrow it'll be lamb.
I thought the whole process in tonights program was very well done.
Anybody who eats meat should make an effort to watch this.
Tonight was the story of how beef ends up on your plate, tomorrow it'll be lamb.
I thought the whole process in tonights program was very well done.
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ha ha nice one. Very well done
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not having a tv and all.
In five mate.
Didn't see the last night's show.
I'm seriously considering not eating meat again. Well, I'm not gonna be able to eat it until I forget about seeing this program. I feel sick.
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I've been quite impressed with the whole process in both programs.
Saying that, I would recommend people making the most of their local farmers markets - the prices may be slightly higher but you get what you pay for!
Was it a London market? They tend to be quite big and I'm not quite sure as to the quality. We used to do markets every weekend throughout Kent, Surrey and Sussex (family business used to be smoked salmon) and they were much much smaller - as you say though, it is more to do the with the relationship between you and the butcher and knowing you can trust their quality.
I might try and make the effort to get to the butchers and stock up for the freezer - would make the trip worthwhile
I get all my meat from the butcher's, and it tastes about 100 times better because of it. I always go to the same butcher in the Grainger Market and he knows who we are and what we want.
Budda, Waitrose aren't that good. The best supermarket in this country is the Dales and Lakes supermarket Booth's
It made me feel sick when I saw the stomach being cut out, but as soon as I saw the meat being cooked it made me feel hungry again!
Glad I watched it though, true the sheep are being slaughtered but it must take alot of skill to actually know how to do it properly and at least it wasn't cruel.
They are a bit over the odds, and I dont do my weekly shop there, but they are decent to their farm suppliers (shock horror!) and they do insist on decent conditions for the animals.
Just the title makes me want to turn veggie, never mind watching or going on the link.
I do eat meat (fussy meat eater, not red meat) but I just try not to think that the animal has been killed for me to eat it. If I thought about that whilst eating the meat well I wouldn't eat it!
Why should some poor animal be killed just for me to have something tasty in my mouth?
That poor animal wouldnt be alive at all if you werent going to eat it. If we treat animals right I see no reason not to eat them.
(Not really.)
We are not better than the stoat, they can do a Dance of Death!
How can we be treating animals right when we kill them?
But don't you see the paradox in that? If you close your eyes to how the animal is killed, (because yes, an animal has to die) then the people who raise the animals/kill them etc can treat them however they want, because they know that the person tucking into whatever has been reclaimed is pleading ignorance. If you watched the progamme, the butchers were telling people of signs to look for in the meat that shows it's fresh and the animal was stunned properly (no burst capillaries in the tissue) etc.
I'd rather know that an animal has been treated well, including up until the point of death, because as Kermit said, quality meat tastes so much better. The chicken I had in Italy that was raised and slaughtered on my uncle's farm was the best I had ever tasted (I plucked it too).
Well, you can ensure that the transportation was as easy for them as possible, making sure they are stunned properly, having experienced, skilled workers in the process.
If you feel like that, then don't eat meat!! Think it's dishonest to blindly eat meat and try not to think about where it's come from, to be honest....either choose to eat it, fully aware of where your meat comes from and the processes involved, or go veggie....
If you feel so strongly about it, then why are you still eating meat?