Comments on: Compassion in World Farming

By: fn

fn — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 17:01:17 +0000

Hello Helen

I so agree – it was so short sighted to drop cookery in schools. We buy much less meat these days but better organic meat. Our organic butcher is much cheaper than the supermarket for the cheaper cuts as most of his clientele don’t know how to use them.

By: Helen J

Helen J — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:25:12 +0000

Hi i would just like to leave a little comment on the buying of meat. i have always used our local butcher to buy our meat from as he can tell me where and when it has been killed. i never had or never will buy meat from a supermarket as you cannot trace the origin. But i am horrified by children not knowing about where their food comes from and how it gets from field to plate. i do think cookery should be a complusary subject in school as my mother has always said “you reep what you sow” and after years of no food education in schools we have now suffering with many obese children and adults alike because they haven’t a clue on how to cook and think that ready meals are the only way to eat !!

By: fn

fn — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:38:25 +0000

Hello Bib

Thanks for registering. It’s fun to know that I have readers dotted all over the world!

Finally I think people are waking up about factory farming and the sublime taste of happy meat. I wish I had the neck to keep a couple of goats or pigs but when the time came to slaughter them I’d find that very hard as they would be friends.

The move from London to Croatia must have been amazing. When I lived in London I met Croatians who had moved to London but never the reverse. I’d love to hear more about life out there.

By: Bib

Bib — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:46:23 +0000

Hello – I’ve been reading this website for ages but have only just registered. We’ve recently moved from London to rural Croatia. Everyone here raises their own meat to some degree or another. The other day as we were driving up the road something caught my eye, and when I looked, it was a just-killed pig hung upside down, being bled out in someone’s front yard. Lots of people I know would be absolutely appalled by this and consider it cruel – but I know that pig spent a very happy life with his piggy friends rootling around the orchard and muck heap. I doubt he ever had to stand on concrete, and he was not shoved squealing and terrified into a lorry to be driven to his death hundreds of miles away. I was a vegetarian for 18 years because of my abhorence of factory farming, and then one day I realised the best way to defeat it is by supporting the farmers who look after their animals humanely and give them a decent life before a quick death.

By: fn

fn — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 12:18:54 +0000

Hi Mandi

I like pigs too. But I think if we kept pigs I’d find it hard to kill them.

There was a sweet little pot bellied pig at the local fish farm. Very tame and about the size of a labradoor. They were really upset when it died.

Loved the duck story

Hello David

Thank you so much for leaving this comment – much appreciated.

By: Dave Beynon

Dave Beynon — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 10:19:03 +0000

Hi to Fiona and all readers and commenters.

I stumbled across this excellent blog after it mentioned Compassion in World Farming and I just wanted to add a note to answer Pam in particular…

I run the website for Compassion and I entirely understand your concerns about the privacy policy of The Phone Room.

Use of banner advertising and affiliate networks like that is a necessary part of fundraising but please let me assure you that Compassion in World Farming never pass on, trade, sell email addresses or personal details and we have made sure that The Phone Room do not retain your details either.

However, if you want to show support directly you can sign up for a regular email newsletter on our website without going through the third party that Fiona linked to. So please do visit http://www.ciwf.org.uk/ and look for the email box on the right hand side of the page.

Thanks for your care and interest in the welfare of farm animals.

Best wishes,
Dave

By: mandi

mandi — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:03:53 +0000

Love the picture, I love piggies and often annoy my husband with futile requests for one.
I have read that the average pig is more intelligent than a dog, which I also use in my constant arguement for owning one.
I watched all the programmes on tv the kill it cook it eat ones about watching the animals being killed and then an audience eating it. I personally think anyone who eats meat should confront this, in person if possible, or at least watch the programmes.
Obviously before supermarkets, animals were killed locally and you were exposed to it more, now its just waved under your nose in a nice plastic tray with an offer sticker on it.
I would like to think I could kill something and eat it, but I think my diet would change drastically as I would only beable to eat animals I didn’t have any sentiments about.
A couple of christmas’ ago we decided to have duck for christmas lunch, I was really looking forward to it, until when on the table for carving I noticed one of the legs had been left cut a little long and the scaley part of the leg that leads to the flipper was in plain view. All through dinner, I pushed the meat round my plate and kept thinking of some baby ducklings swimming round on a pond crying out’mumma’ …. I teased my husband with the story until he also could eat no more meat off his plate, by the time the rest of the bird was being chopped up for the cats, the poor carcus was even being referred to as matilda puddle duck, ( although the cats didn’t let it bother them one jot as they scoffed the lot).
I don’t eat pork meat ( only pigs liver) as over the years I have become intolerant to the fattiness of it, but I’m sure if I tried to picture any animal as I was eating it i could very soon turn myself vegetarian.

By: fn

fn — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:08:14 +0000

Hi ChickPea

I couldn’t agree more. I was really shocked by the videos on the CIWF site. We should be fighting to keep our pig farmers in business.

We are very lucky. Our local organic butcher struggles to sell the cheaper cuts of meat(he says no one knows how to cook them)so we can buy happy meat often more cheaply than imported meat in the shops.

Hi Toffeeapple

That’s good that you have a local supplier.

Hello Denise

Yes the slaughterhouse worries me too.

Thanks for the info on antibiotics.

Hi LindaM

We eat meat or fish most days. Much less of it than in the past and we pad it out with loads of vegetables. It’s a much better healthier diet, I reckon.

Hi Paula

Yes. I signed up for the chicken out campaign too. It’s a massive movement in the UK.

Good idea to get bespoke meat!

Hi Joanna

That’s great! I didn’t know about that.

Hello Pam

I can see your point but I don’t mind if they ring me – I support what they are doing after all.

By: Pam

Pam — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:21:24 +0000

I was going to register my support until I read their Privacy Policy. Obviously I give to charities like this as and when I can but I don’t wish to be phoned up by them and asked to pledge money.

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By: Joanna

Joanna — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:42:38 +0000

There is some good news on the egg front. In 1999 the EU passed a directive that by 2012 there would be a complete ban on hens in cages. I think the egg laying industry have been ignoring this hoping this would be one of those things that gets postponed and postponed and postponed but in 2008 the EU confirmed that the ban will still come into effect and there would be no delay. So they have got another 3 years to get their act together and they are going to have to be making the move now to be ready for the complete ban or just go out of business, so more eggs from less intensive farming