Topic: Foie Gras, Fillets & Flambés! (ANOTHER Azura Exclusive!)

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That unfortunately is the way it should be, then we wouldn't have had all the hysteria over a headmistress killing two lambs for the school raffle.

Many people don't have a problem eating meat because for them it is a faceless pre packaged item not something that once lived and breathed.

I have been part of the shooting and fishing set because if you know how your food was raised and you've prepared it the whole way from death to table it's better than going out buying a piece of something wrapped in plastic from a supermarket.

It's not because you enjoy killing things then?

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It's not because you enjoy killing things then?

No, just happier to know that my meat is fresh and hasn't been hanging around in a freezer for the past 6 months.

Haven't actually shot anything since the children were born. It's not entirely acceptable anymore, is it?

Facts of life and all that, got brought up with rabbits and chickens, not pets but dinner and I'm happier if my children think of them that way rather than thinking purely about the processed aftermath ~ life is to sterile these days

From the Independant:
The findings are revealed in a survey of children aged 8 to 11 by the polling organisation Mori. Half of the 356 children questioned did not know ham was produced from pigs. A third thought it came from chickens, 10 per cent assumed it was from cows, 5 per cent from sheep and 2 per cent deer.
The survey was commissioned by the National Farmers' Union (NFU). It approached the makers of Little Red Tractor, a BBC2 programme for pre-school children, who agreed to include scenes explaining where food comes from in the new series. Future episodes have storylines about how potatoes grow in the ground and the process for making cheese.
Bev Wilson, campaigns manager at the NFU, said: "It's sad so many children don't fully understand the origin of their food. They need a basic understanding of where food comes from."

My daughter can point out the difference between a mackerel and a sea bass so I do think it helps.....

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Same here. Which is why I always buy meat from our local butcher who has the names and photos of the local farms on the wall so we can see where the some of the products originated . He reckons he can tell me the name of the animal my meat comes from although I would expect these days that 'Buttercup' has now become a number!

I knew a family who used to own a cattle station here in Australia and the daughter had a pet poddy calf who followed her everywhere like a dog.

For the daughter's 21st birthday they gave a big party and a barbecue for all the friends and neighbours. The father proudly announced that the superb beef steaks they were enjoying was the former pet !
The daughter was unaware until that moment her poddy calf had been slaughtered.

Horrible story , horrible man.

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I knew a family who used to own a cattle station here in Australia and the daughter had a pet poddy calf who followed her everywhere like a dog.

For the daughter's 21st birthday they gave a big party and a barbecue for all the friends and neighbours. The father proudly announced that the superb beef steaks they were enjoying was the former pet !
The daughter was unaware until that moment her poddy calf had been slaughtered.

Horrible story , horrible man.

That is nasty, I couldn't stoop that low ~ let your child get attached to an animal over many, many years then butcher it for her birthday!

At least with chickens I've never really gotten all that attached ~ too beady in the eyes and creepy scaly feet! But cows are cute esp. when they're little.

My sister in law and her husband run a deer farm / station out in New Zealand and she's taught her kids to realise they are pests so they don't form attachments

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That is nasty, I couldn't stoop that low ~ let your child get attached to an animal over many, many years then butcher it for her birthday!

At least with chickens I've never really gotten all that attached ~ too beady in the eyes and creepy scaly feet! But cows are cute esp. when they're little.

My sister in law and her husband run a deer farm / station out in New Zealand and she's taught her kids to realise they are pests so they don't form attachments

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At least with chickens I've never really gotten all that attached ~ too beady in the eyes and creepy scaly feet! But cows are cute esp. when they're little.

My sister in law and her husband run a deer farm / station out in New Zealand and she's taught her kids to realise they are pests so they don't form attachments[/QUOTE]

Yes Shelley , those scaly feet! To think they are a delicacy in some restaurants. Yukkkk.

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I was a vegetarian between the Ages of 9 & 17 but only because I'm a fussy eater and couldn't be bothered chewing meat!

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Hi History Addict, didn't know about that issue with the label, shopping these days is a minefield! I took notice earlier in the supermarket and they were selling British Veal with a lengthy explanation on its origin, and the welfare of the calves, but i still couldn't quite bring myself to buy it. As Morton points out you can't beat your local butcher who can tell you just where the meat is coming from, although I would draw the line at photographs of my dinner still on the hoof:D Carol

Shades of "Milliways" (Restaurant at the End of the Universe to non Douglas Adams fans).

I can't imagine what the Chef on P & O was thinking of. I'd just boycott the restaurant. Foie Gras should be illegal. What kind of people actually force feed geese? Anyone who has suffered an enlarged liver and experienced the pain it causes would gladly force feed the feeders!

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I knew a family who used to own a cattle station here in Australia and the daughter had a pet poddy calf who followed her everywhere like a dog.

For the daughter's 21st birthday they gave a big party and a barbecue for all the friends and neighbours. The father proudly announced that the superb beef steaks they were enjoying was the former pet !
The daughter was unaware until that moment her poddy calf had been slaughtered.

Horrible story , horrible man.

I would have been violently sick! What did she do when she found out? Love the poddy calf bit. Why poddy? Carol

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I would have been violently sick! What did she do when she found out? Love the poddy calf bit. Why poddy? Carol

The daughter was upset but there was nothing she could do except stoically accept the fact.

Poddy must be an Australian expression, I have never heard it used in England. Christiaan