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07
The problem with pigs
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So there’s a bit of a problem with pigs for sale in Irish shops. If you’ve arrived here looking for advice on what to do – you’re obviously lost. You should be on the Food Safety Advisory Board website.
Still here? Oh, wasn’t expecting that. Ehhh, um, how about going veggie? It’s good for you, the animals, the planet and so on.
Save the pigs – become a vegetarian.
Photo owned by Keith Marshall and adapted under the terms of a CC License.
8 Comments
December 7th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Sorry to disappoint, but I like meat. And apples. Weird, hu? ;D
December 7th, 2008 at 8:28 pm
Think of the poor little piglets
December 8th, 2008 at 1:23 am
no, but thanks for the offer…….lets just deal with bad farming, bad farmers, and bad farming supplies people…..
December 8th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Hey, they’d eat us.
Though people eating less meat is probably a good plan. I’m with the River Cottage dude, see where it comes from and how it gets to your plate. Then have respect.
December 8th, 2008 at 10:40 am
AJ, thanks for the offer. I am in dire need of a new car. To this day, and seventeen years on, I still have yet to see my “baby” eat an apple. But many an (organic) sausage will be his.
I was wondering how long it would take you to cover the Irish dioxin disaster. No doubt most of what has been produced since September will have been consumed by now – don’t you just love it?
As to vegetarians. I am always happy to cater for them; in fact, I must have been a rabbit myself in a former life. However, humans are omnivores, most definitely: If I had a pound for every vegetarian I meet who suffers from iron deficiency I could buy a whole flock of egg laying hens, and a gander to keep burglars at bay.
Thriftcriminal (one of these days I’ll get my head round your name) – I too am a huge fan of the sweet Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, though I draw the line at using road kill. AJ, here is an idea which might meet with your approval: If we all had to kill and butcher our own meat, no doubt, the number of vegetarians would multiply faster than you can say “stun gun” and “slit throat”; though just like the hunter gatherer of olden days members of your gender might get less squeamish in the face of lack of steak. As a matter of interest, do you eat fish?
U
December 8th, 2008 at 10:29 pm
Just to clarify my point before: I do like meat, but it’s not an unknown occurence that I don’t eat any for weeks in a row.
As for your point, Ursula, I agree. People who eat meat should at least have been present when an animal was killed and cut up. I bet most people don’t have that experience… (To answer that question before it’s being asked: yes, I do.)
December 8th, 2008 at 11:14 pm
Ah the little piglets Manuel
but yeah though, the intense methods are where the problem lies.
Pigs can be nasty it’s true Thrifty but they are ‘dumb animals’
I don’t eat fish Ursula. I take supplements though , so I think my iron intake is ok – lots of brocolli and greens too – full of iron.
you’re one of the few I know who can say that Katha.
December 9th, 2008 at 6:32 pm
AJ, pigs are one of the most intelligent animals next to man!
I am glad that you are keeping the old metal levels topped up sufficiently. But don’t you think it odd that we “supplement” what nature provides on its own accord?
We all want to fulfill our destiny, don’t we? An apple wants to be eaten instead of rotting on the ground, a (organically reared) pig happily lives for a while, and is most appreciated when dead and being served AJ, the latter is more than humans can claim. In fact, they can’t get us six foot under fast enough once we have exhaled.
As to killing our own food, and Katha alludes to this: When little I used to accompany my grandfather on early summer morning fishing trips. Not only did I learn how to source worms (and handle them), but how to hook, kill, scale, gut and appreciate a fish. My grandmother did the cooking. Sounds idyllic, doesn’t it? It was.
Admittedly, to this day I have huge problems with eating rabbit since seeing one prostrate nailed to some shed door being skinned (I was only four years old and nearly fainted at the sight of it). Dear AJ, I sincerely hope you are not reading this over breakfast or dinner.
Do not fear: I make a mean nut roast and am a whizz with chick peas, garlic and wild rocket.
U