How many of the members have visited a Slaughter House ?

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I have, I had cause to reflect for quite a while why I found the slaughter of horses affected me compared to my acceptance of other animals. My wife was a pescatarian until she met me. To qualify for her City and Guilds so she could be a meat and fish specialist for Waitrose, visited with her class of twenty a Waitrose controlled beef farm and abattior. The class members were not forced to go in. My wife and two others did. Marina like I hate hypocrisy.

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How many here have killed for the table, either game our farm reared. I done both.
How many here know how kasrut and halal slaughter differs from "Christian" slaughter ?
 
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I've been to a pig slaughter house one time. Smelled bad, but the "job" was done very quickly. There is some involuntary muscle twitching, but the animal is, without a doubt, dead.

But worse, I've been to cattle feed lots, where cattle are fed massive amounts of corn to fatten up. They live in their own filth, and get shot up with antibiotics and growth hormones. Talk about a smell. You can smell it for miles.

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A feed lot is worse than a humane slaughter house, IMO.

I haven't been inside an industrial chicken or egg farm. The big corporate owners don't allow ANY outsiders in. I have driven past many of them in North Texas, and they are giant metal buildings, and the smell is probably worse than a feed lot.

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CD
 
BTW, I eat beef and chicken, but I do the best to choose the most humanely raised and slaughtered animals. I'm not ready to go vegitarian, and certainly not vegan, so I try to do what I can for animal welfare when I make my purchase decisions.

I am also a hater of puppy mills, where most purebred dogs come from in the US. I know exactly where psycho-poodle came from. I know who his breeders were, and who both of his parents were. I know his birth date, and the land they ran freely on.

I don't know if you have puppy mills in Europe, but I suspect you do, whether you know it or not. If you do, stand up against them. Cut me loose in a puppy mill with a baseball bat. Let me meet the owners.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVyFSTYY7zg


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mate use to work at one & he smelled so bad after work.

I wouldn't go to one as it would put me off meat immediately for life & I need to eat meat for long term health reason.

I can't eat soya, mushrooms etc for health reason.
I wouldn't survive as a vegetarian at all.

I do use a local butchers for meat.
I only eat chicken, some Turkey rarely & little pork but only bacon.
Once a month maybe a beef buger.

I couldn't eat duck at all.

Dad was a butcher so have heard things & seen where they chop dead chicken food off pull up the skin etc & bone is white, healthy etc, supermarket is known to be brittle grey etc

I don't eat at well known restaurant that have the chickens feed on superseed to fill them out, its disgusting, they get so fat so quick & some fall back... il stop as it bothers me... anyway you can see these in supermarket to as you will see hock burns🤢
 
I simply couldn't bear it. I was vegetarian for many years because I couldn't bear the idea of eating dead animals or them being killed, however humanely. I eat little meat now and could quite easily go vegetarian again - or perhaps should I say vegetarian with shellfish.
 
Well, growing up, we raised, killed, and butchered all our meat, on site. We raised chickens, hogs, and beef, so yes, I've seen plenty killed, and have done plenty of killing.

The only time I've been to a commercial slaughtering place was about 10 years ago, just up the road, a small family-owned meat processing place. They also cater our pig roasts.

I went to see them about a pig roast, walked in the wrong door, and I ended up in the killing room, where they were killing a hog.

When we were in Alaska, we had rented a car and were driving around Fairbanks and stopped in at a meat processing place to get some fresh salmon sent to my dad. While we were standing there talking to the guy (fairly covered in blood and guts), in rolled a local with the mangled remains of a deer or elk or caribou or something he'd hit.
 
Burt Blank said:
I have, I had cause to reflect for quite a while why I found the slaughter of horses affected me compared to my acceptance of other animals. My wife was a pescatarian until she met me. To qualify for her City and Guilds so she could be a meat and fish specialist for Waitrose, visited with her class of twenty a Waitrose controlled beef farm and abattior. The class members were not forced to go in. My wife and two others did. Marina like I hate hypocrisy.

Supplementary Questions
How many here have killed for the table, either game our farm reared. I done both.
How many here know how kasrut and halal slaughter differs from "Christian" slaughter ?
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No, never visited a slaughterhouse unless you include this one which used to be a slaughterhouse. Take a look at the gallery.

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Yes, killed for the table, rabbits, hens, fish, shellfish.

Not really sure on Halal, I think that it involves a knife (which could be ritual) and that they cut the carotid artery? I think also that there are moves towards keeping their traditions but making it more humane?

If I catch and keep a fish I always try to use everything of that fish so the head etc will go for crab pot bait. It perhaps sounds silly but if I do take an animals life I feel that it is better to use all the animal rather than throw bits away.
 
Wyshiepoo said:
No, never visited a slaughterhouse unless you include this one which used to be a slaughterhouse. Take a look at the gallery.

Home | The Slaughterhouse

Yes, killed for the table, rabbits, hens, fish, shellfish.

Not really sure on Halal, I think that it involves a knife (which could be ritual) and that they cut the carotid artery? I think also that there are moves towards keeping their traditions but making it more humane?

If I catch and keep a fish I always try to use everything of that fish so the head etc will go for crab pot bait. It perhaps sounds silly but if I do take an animals life I feel that it is better to use all the animal rather than throw bits away.
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Not silly at all. :okay:

If you really want to use every part of a pig, eat more hot dogs. :whistling:

CD
 
There was an episode of Hugh Fearnley Whittingtal's River Cottage where they slaughtered a pig and 'used everything but the oink'
 
Wyshiepoo said:
There was an episode of Hugh Fearnley Whittingtal's River Cottage where they slaughtered a pig and 'used everything but the oink'
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A cajun boucherie is like that. It is a day-long cook-fest starting with the killing of a hog. Everything is used, even the blood.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHI8pbm73F8


Anthony Bourdain did an episode of one of his shows about a boucherie. Maybe some members here saw it. Tony actually had the honor of killing the hog with a big revolver to the head. One of his best shows, IMO.

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