Butcher shops with sawdust floors have all but disappeared in Scotland, Kylie. There is a butcher near my home which has good Aberdeen Angus steak and flat Laurence sausages which are good on toast, not to be confused with *links* the traditional sausages. When grilled even low-fat sausages ooze a lot of fat. I know that the Australian larrikin liked steak with fried eggs for breakfast. Plus six or seven rashers of bacon.
Slaughterman comes with knife Pigs squeal and run up walls Smell that sizzling bacon
I meant to write Lorne sausages, I like them grilled. Lorne sausages from my butcher have real taste compared with the ones in the supermarket that are wrapped in Cellophane.
My 100-year-old Uncle George has been an animal lover all his life. He had a horse stud, bred Alsatians, and once kept pigs, ducks, chickens. I asked him if he thought the *meat is murder* argument was moral. He said, *Yes, I think I could have gone vegetarian, but it would only be a drop in the ocean until the eating habits of the world change.* Now widowed, all he has is a devoted cat. I'm cat crazy.
100% of the animals I eat are/were only in existence as a food source. I am not going out and eating pets or animals soon to be extinct. I feel no guilt whatsoever!
No one should feel guilty, PP. There is a conversation worldwide about how much pain, fear, and distress animals feel. Our ancestors had no real choice but to eat meat and poultry. We do have a choice since there are good protein alternatives. I stopped eating veal long ago: it is cruel to separate calves from their mothers.
It is now recognised that the higher animals have emotions and suffer trauma. Elephants experience grief as do young chimpanzee torn from their mother's care. So what about cows, pigs, lambs, turkeys? I'm only asking.
If we spent a day in a slaughterhouse, I wonder whether we'd feel like Kylie? My late brother-in-law was a big meat eater, but he loved the lunch he had in a vegetarian restaurant in Edinburgh. He went back the next day with my sister.
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Expecting twins
Lol!
DeleteSorry, but I will eat all of them at one time or another.
ReplyDeleteYes, I eat them too but sometimes I feel bad about it.
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Now wrapped in Cellophane
That's good! From living and breathing and bleeding to unrecognisably a once living thing.
DeleteButcher shops with sawdust floors have all but disappeared in Scotland, Kylie.
ReplyDeleteThere is a butcher near my home which has good Aberdeen Angus steak and flat Laurence sausages which are good on toast, not to be confused with *links* the traditional sausages.
When grilled even low-fat sausages ooze a lot of fat.
I know that the Australian larrikin liked steak with fried eggs for breakfast.
Plus six or seven rashers of bacon.
Slaughterman comes with knife
Pigs squeal and run up walls
Smell that sizzling bacon
I meant to write Lorne sausages, I like them grilled.
DeleteLorne sausages from my butcher have real taste compared with the ones in the supermarket that are wrapped in Cellophane.
My 100-year-old Uncle George has been an animal lover all his life. He had a horse stud, bred Alsatians, and once kept pigs, ducks, chickens.
I asked him if he thought the *meat is murder* argument was moral.
He said, *Yes, I think I could have gone vegetarian, but it would only be a drop in the ocean until the eating habits of the world change.*
Now widowed, all he has is a devoted cat. I'm cat crazy.
While I didn't go vegetarian for animalarian reasons I have no regrets. Neither do I cast stones.
ReplyDeleteI'm not vegetarian so I can't cast any stones but I'm realising that I can't justify eating animals so I do it less and less
Delete100% of the animals I eat are/were only in existence as a food source. I am not going out and eating pets or animals soon to be extinct. I feel no guilt whatsoever!
ReplyDeleteNo one should feel guilty, PP.
ReplyDeleteThere is a conversation worldwide about how much pain, fear, and distress animals feel.
Our ancestors had no real choice but to eat meat and poultry.
We do have a choice since there are good protein alternatives.
I stopped eating veal long ago: it is cruel to separate calves from their mothers.
It is now recognised that the higher animals have emotions and suffer trauma.
Elephants experience grief as do young chimpanzee torn from their mother's care.
So what about cows, pigs, lambs, turkeys? I'm only asking.
If we spent a day in a slaughterhouse, I wonder whether we'd feel like Kylie?
My late brother-in-law was a big meat eater, but he loved the lunch he had in a vegetarian restaurant in Edinburgh.
He went back the next day with my sister.