Whenever I pass a sign saying "Farm Shop" I can't resist going in. Today I saw one saying "Farm Shop - Ducks and Pheasants £1.50 each". What would you have done?It's the end of the shooting season and the owner needed to get rid of lots of locally shot game ASAP. So I picked up a brace of pheasants for £3, as well as instructions on how to prepare them. They're hanging in the garage waiting for my dad to come on Friday. I think he'll enjoy roast pheasant for his dinner, and I'm really looking forward to plucking and dressing them because I've never done that before.
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It'll be roadkill next m'girl, mark my words!
Thank you Mel. Really looking forward to it.
Do let us know! I've never seen anywhere selling them locally otherwise I'd have tried them myself. Must ask around and see who (whispers) might come across some.
hiya,
i feel as though i mmight turn vegie!
because seeing the bird in your picture dead like like, i never thought of the meat i eat looking like that, now i feel very guilty eating an animal when i think of it looking dead and hung! i thought you were a vegie mel?
amy x
hiya,
i feel as though i mmight turn vegie!
because seeing the bird in your picture dead like like, i never thought of the meat i eat looking like that, now i feel very guilty eating an animal when i think of it looking dead and hung! i thought you were a vegie mel?
amy x
Good for you! I've admired Allotment Lady for being able to do this. I've never tried it before. But good to know they'll be enjoyed.
I'm not a vegetarian Amy. I used to be, but I have eaten meat now for almost 10 years. Ed is still a strict vegetarian, and we usually eat vegetarian as a family. The carnivores in the family (me, Sam and Eleanor) just occasionally have good-quality meat as a special treat, which isn't a bad way to go.
Hiya Mel, after reading these comments I decided to look a bit into vegetarianism. Just because I've probably got a lot of preconceptions about why people 'go veggy'. And I found this by The vegetarian Society (vegsoc.org) "There are as many reasons for becoming vegetarian as there are vegetarians; it's a highly personal and individual decision to make. But in a survey conducted on behalf of The Vegetarian Society the majority of people said that they gave up meat and fish because they did not morally approve of killing animals, or because they objected to the ways in which animals are kept, treated and killed for food."
Ergo, as you said, if you eliminate the cruel rearing & slaughtering methods, and in fact create an overall more ethical approach to farming, iteliminates a lot of peoples original concerns.
Another sub-subject would be a someone who renounces the cruelty of eating what was once a living creature, but who in turn has no qualms about eating vegetables grown with alarming quantities of chemicals, and destruction of natural habitat, wasteful production and distribution and packaging methods.....
Funny you should mention that Steph - the BBC has an article today about it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6295747.stm
Still not going to tempt me back, though :)
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