Isn't it odd what we'll refuse to eat?
A few years ago at a favourite restaurant I saw Mallard on the menu and wouldn't order it. Now this is strange as I like duck but I just had visions of "my" sponsored mallard on the plate before me. And lets be honest I like Mallards.
I saw Woodcock on the menu whilst on holiday a few years back and didn't order that. Why? don't know, I've eaten Goose, Guinea Fowl, Ostrich, Pheasant, Red Legged Partridge and Wood Pigeon. It makes no real sense.
I've never ordered veal but I've eaten lamb. Is there any logic to that? I think not. I've eaten Vennison and Rabbit for goodness sake.
I'm not a big fish eater, not because I dislike fish but the thought of bones. I like to be convinced my fish is bone free.
All very strange.
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Veal's different to lamb though.
Lambs are out there on the hills for a while at least having a short natural-ish life, with their mothers.
Whereas veal calves are separated from the cows, kept in a dark shed in confined conditions and often fed on a liquid diet (to keep their flesh pale and tender). Hardly natural.
No one eats Duck when they are with me.
I once had a friend who had a pet rabbit. When we called in at Asda on the way home from work she wouldn´t let me buy Rabbit Whiskas for my cat. I had to sneak back and get it later as it was all he would eat.
I love fish, but don´t eat meat.
You beat me to it Anna. I was a meat eater for 40 years, but I never, ever ate veal. It's just appalling the way it is obtained. I have had to suffer night after night, day after day of mother cows bellowing here up on the hillside, where they have done just that.
There's another farm that I pass regularly, and have to avert my eyes, they have dairy cattle, and they also take away the calves, but these are in green plastic igloos in the farmyard, they are the size of a dog kennel, and the calves cannot turn round, lay down or anything else. You just see their pathetic little faces looking out. This is on display on a main road, in a stinking, filthy farmyard. And it is legal. It's evil beyond belief to stress animals out like this.
Anna/Jan = valid point, I forgot that when I typed this up this morning.
Kaz - I know I shouldn't eat Duck......
Well I'm a vegetarian so I won't eat animals, but of course you'll emotioanlly relate more to some than others, and it's easier to eat meats that doesn't give you more of a guilty conscience. But in the end you make the killing happen, even if the animal had a "good" life or a horrible one, so does it really matter? I suppose it can slowly change the way farmers deal with their animals, if everyone does it that way, but I'm pondering if it matters. If you're raised to be killed, is it really worth it getting a taste for a happy life just to end it?
I don't know, now I'm all depressed...
I'm an ex vegetarian. It's very hard to spot as I will now eat most things, but I still can't eat anything that ever looked like it lived - no heads, tails, prawns have to be shelved and I usually have to know their grandparents before I trust their pedigree.
I also have an aversion to oranges. Habits are strange.
I'm funny about fish. I quite like some fish, especially a nice crisply deep-fried fish and chips, but if it tastes TOO fishy and I can see the silvery-white skin, I immediately go off it.
We had to leave a restaurant in Australia before ordering because the next door table had ordered kangaroo and we'd just spent the day at a local nature park oohing and aahing over their meals 'cousins'!
Which too is strange as I was brought up in a farming community, had pet lambs but then sat down to roast lamb...
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