Gems
Adult Guinea Pig
This may upset vegetarians so please don't read if you don't like discussing meat.
I've been trying ( in vain ) to find a butcher or farm shop that sells mutton for curry I want to make tomorrow night. I rang a local farm shop I've used in the past who told me they don't have any at the moment but are due to send some sheep to slaughter in a week which will then be hung for 2 weeks and ready for sale at the end of October. A couple of work colleagues knew I was trying to find mutton and asked whether I'd found anywhere that sold it so I told them what the butcher told me and that I'd be able to get some at the end of the month. Both were completely horrified that I could even contemplate getting the meat if I knew the animals were going to be slaughtered for it, which I was shocked at as where else would the meat come from? One in particular shops at Asda and I said I'd far rather get my meat from a farm shop where the animals are reared on that farm, butchered by the inhouse butchers and sold in their own shops then meat from a supermarket like Asda where the meat has come from god knows where and is pumped full of preservatives.
The farm shop in question's meat is free range and organic and you can see the animals in the fields so you know they are well looked after. I've watched documentaries on where supermarket meat can originate from and I think it's horrific some of the conditions the animals are kept in. Yet in their eyes by being more conscious about where the animals are coming from I'm this horrifying morbid person. They'd rather see the end product all neatly wrapped so they don't have to think about what animal it came from.
I guess my question is is it really that wrong for me to understand where the meat I'm coming from is and understand the whole slaughter process and still eat meat... Am I some kind of freak for knowing what happens and not be repulsed and want to give meat up?
I've been trying ( in vain ) to find a butcher or farm shop that sells mutton for curry I want to make tomorrow night. I rang a local farm shop I've used in the past who told me they don't have any at the moment but are due to send some sheep to slaughter in a week which will then be hung for 2 weeks and ready for sale at the end of October. A couple of work colleagues knew I was trying to find mutton and asked whether I'd found anywhere that sold it so I told them what the butcher told me and that I'd be able to get some at the end of the month. Both were completely horrified that I could even contemplate getting the meat if I knew the animals were going to be slaughtered for it, which I was shocked at as where else would the meat come from? One in particular shops at Asda and I said I'd far rather get my meat from a farm shop where the animals are reared on that farm, butchered by the inhouse butchers and sold in their own shops then meat from a supermarket like Asda where the meat has come from god knows where and is pumped full of preservatives.
The farm shop in question's meat is free range and organic and you can see the animals in the fields so you know they are well looked after. I've watched documentaries on where supermarket meat can originate from and I think it's horrific some of the conditions the animals are kept in. Yet in their eyes by being more conscious about where the animals are coming from I'm this horrifying morbid person. They'd rather see the end product all neatly wrapped so they don't have to think about what animal it came from.
I guess my question is is it really that wrong for me to understand where the meat I'm coming from is and understand the whole slaughter process and still eat meat... Am I some kind of freak for knowing what happens and not be repulsed and want to give meat up?