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I have watched and enjoyed all of Hugh's programmes(except the one where he moved to his farm-smacked too much of big business for me)
We always grew and reared our own food,poultry,lambs,and rarely,if ever!,visited a supermarket,living as we did in the back of beyond.
Then I was "left" with four small children(and obliged to live in a Council house!) but we always ate well.
As Yoanbob has said,lack of money doesn't mean you have to eat cheap meat.I too eked out a bit of good meat with lentils or beans and grew and raised what I could.
Oh!! The shock and OUTRAGE from my neighbours when they learned that those dear,fluffy baby bunnies playing on the lawn were destined to become meals!!
Were they vegetarian?,I asked. No , but they could never kill an animal they had looked after.What a good job some of us can,I replied,or we'd all have to be veggies.I believe they reported me to the R.S.P.C.A.!!
So ,to this day I can only eat meat that I know has been kindly treated in life.
Also,Paul,I do agree that there can be no difference in the taste of rare-breed meat and intensively reared. The difference is in what they are fed.Free range pigs and poultry will,of course,have a happier life but if they are fed the same c**p as the others they will taste just the same.
We always grew and reared our own food,poultry,lambs,and rarely,if ever!,visited a supermarket,living as we did in the back of beyond.
Then I was "left" with four small children(and obliged to live in a Council house!) but we always ate well.
As Yoanbob has said,lack of money doesn't mean you have to eat cheap meat.I too eked out a bit of good meat with lentils or beans and grew and raised what I could.
Oh!! The shock and OUTRAGE from my neighbours when they learned that those dear,fluffy baby bunnies playing on the lawn were destined to become meals!!
Were they vegetarian?,I asked. No , but they could never kill an animal they had looked after.What a good job some of us can,I replied,or we'd all have to be veggies.I believe they reported me to the R.S.P.C.A.!!
So ,to this day I can only eat meat that I know has been kindly treated in life.
Also,Paul,I do agree that there can be no difference in the taste of rare-breed meat and intensively reared. The difference is in what they are fed.Free range pigs and poultry will,of course,have a happier life but if they are fed the same c**p as the others they will taste just the same.
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. Didn't have time to use the turkey bones this year so smashed them up and froze them. Will be making some lovely soups this weekend if the weather lives up to the forecast!
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