FabSwingers.com forum: are we a bit disconnected from our food?

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Just got back in from ferreting an hour or so ago, and walking up my street one of the neighbours looks at me holding a dead rabbit like I've just slaughtered her kitten and with a straight face asks me 'how could you?' So I asked if she was vegetarian....she looks at me like I'm stupid and answers no.....so I just wondered off at that point not wanting to bicker over something so stupid...I mean really? It's ok to eat meat, just so long as its not you killing it? Piss off.

Anyhow, this got me thinking, how many folk out there are that disconnected from the meat on their plates? You know that somebody had to kill it right? Stunned, skinned, eviscerated in a factory set up for mass murder....

I'd rather take my rabbit, born and raised wild and killed qiuickly and with some respect for the annimal...

That's not to say I don't eat farmed meat, I do....I'm just very aware of how it got onto my plate....I guess I just got a reminder of how some people really do live in the dark about their grub

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By *rightonsteveMan
over a year ago

Brighton - even Hove!

I once made a load of bread from wheat I ground myself from wheat I nicked from a farmers field.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Excellent post

The pretty prepackaged meat fillets don't get there by magic

Nothing wrong with rabbit hunting as long as if you kill it, you eat it

Was out walking our dachshund earlier who tracked a rabbit scent back to its burrow, didn't let him go down the burrow. But was really proud of him for the tracking, he's still only a baba at 5 months

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm a vegetarian but have no issues with the food chain what's so ever,I have fished and prepared it for my family and friends to eat,in my opinion hunting for food is fine so long as it is done for the purpose of eating and not for the sport and in this day and age it's the only way some families have of having a balanced diet and also a natural diet without all the crap the producers put into food products xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

That's life. Simple.

Someone has to kill it for you to eat it.

You can't stop the inevitable.

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

My sister would never eat anything my father and I brought home from a shoot.

(Sometimes our mum would fib, but the time sis found a piece of lead shot in her 'turkey' caused a bit of a stir).

We all want free-range eggs, but surely the best life of all is the one spent completely in the wild, and dispatched with a sudden shot. Better than any cage or barn anyday, and free from antibiotics and other additives.

Enjoy your rabbit

Mr ddc

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Ur quite right op, I have tried to educate my children as to what is on their plate and what animal it is! It's important to know what ur eating and where it comes from even if u can't farm and kill it yourself. I like to make an effort with all the food we eat, make most things from fresh rather than buying processed food! And don't get me started on caged eggs and intense farmed produce! Blergh!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Good for you, enjoy the rabbit! As for the woman, just shows how stupid some people are, ignore her.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

happy to eat meat..

i like being ignoarant to the process of it all

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I'm a vegetarian but have no issues with the food chain what's so ever,I have fished and prepared it for my family and friends to eat,in my opinion hunting for food is fine so long as it is done for the purpose of eating and not for the sport and in this day and age it's the only way some families have of having a balanced diet and also a natural diet without all the crap the producers put into food products xx"

Yeah, see I'd have been quite happy if she was vege...then it would have been a fair point she had and it would have been a totally different thing altogether....but it was the fact she wasn't and saw fit to judge...struck me as double standardish.....

I don't need to go rabbitting, or anything else for that matter but I do admit, I enjoy the while process of collecting my own food, meat fruit and veg where I can find it...but I absolutely will not take something I won't eat, it seems wastefull of life...

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I once made a load of bread from wheat I ground myself from wheat I nicked from a farmers field. "

That's ace! Not tried that......yet.....roll on summer, may have to pull over briefly by a wheat field somewhere...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Top man if you fancy a day on guns give us a pm to many people live in caccoons these days so what plans tonight stew or garlic rabbit ?? pigeon is the best meat I've had just like serlion

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By *erbyDalesCplCouple
over a year ago

Derbyshire

" I enjoy the whole process of collecting my own food, meat fruit and veg where I can find it...but I absolutely will not take something I won't eat, it seems wastefull of life..."

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Good for you, enjoy the rabbit! As for the woman, just shows how stupid some people are, ignore her."

She was perhaps ignnorant rather than stupid....I know her as she only lives a few doors away, I may bring it up at some point when I'm more inclined to talk to her....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I can't eat anything that has a head,eyes or a tail on my plate,not even prawns. I try not to think about the animal when I see bones on my plate. Sometimes legs of lamb make me feel quivery but I remind myself how good it tastes and I get over it

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

"happy to eat meat..

i like being ignoarant to the process of it all"

Same here. It takes all the magic out of how something tastes.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Good for you, enjoy the rabbit! As for the woman, just shows how stupid some people are, ignore her.

She was perhaps ignnorant rather than stupid....I know her as she only lives a few doors away, I may bring it up at some point when I'm more inclined to talk to her...."
don't bother mate you will never win with people like that head down and crack on

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Top man if you fancy a day on guns give us a pm to many people live in caccoons these days so what plans tonight stew or garlic rabbit ?? pigeon is the best meat I've had just like serlion "

I own a couple of 16's and and a rapid seven

And gotta agree, bit of pigeon goes down a treat...not had any in a bit though...prefer them fatted in summer

think I'll do a pie with the bunny, am sharing it with someone who's a little sqeemish to the whole process so hiding it in a pie may be a good start...I'd like her to come round slowly to the idea of wild food so start slowly I think....

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"happy to eat meat..

i like being ignoarant to the process of it all

Same here. It takes all the magic out of how something tastes. "

Awww nah, makes it better! The more process I have in my food the more I seem to enjoy it...

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By *inaTitzTV/TS
over a year ago

Titz Towers, North Notts

"happy to eat meat..

i like being ignoarant to the process of it all

Same here. It takes all the magic out of how something tastes.

Awww nah, makes it better! The more process I have in my food the more I seem to enjoy it..."

I'll just stick to leaving mine somewhere warm for 30 minutes or so

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Ur quite right op, I have tried to educate my children as to what is on their plate and what animal it is! It's important to know what ur eating and where it comes from even if u can't farm and kill it yourself. I like to make an effort with all the food we eat, make most things from fresh rather than buying processed food! And don't get me started on caged eggs and intense farmed produce! Blergh!"

I don't have children but sure I'd be the same....I was brought up around farms and guns nd fishing etc so I have a pretty strong bond with where my food comes from....

Even the eggs I have I get off my old man's allotments...and whatever fruit and veg i can snag if I'm feeling cheeky

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"happy to eat meat..

i like being ignoarant to the process of it all

Same here. It takes all the magic out of how something tastes.

Awww nah, makes it better! The more process I have in my food the more I seem to enjoy it...

I'll just stick to leaving mine somewhere warm for 30 minutes or so

Your to glam to go creeping about a field with nets in one hand and a ferret in another, your forgiven

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Excellent post

The pretty prepackaged meat fillets don't get there by magic

Nothing wrong with rabbit hunting as long as if you kill it, you eat it

I'll only kill something to eat it....otherwise I'm as happy talking a camera and just taking pics

And aww bless, instinct to go following scent trails kicking in at a young age...amazing!

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By *londeCazWoman
over a year ago

Arse End of the Universe, Cumbria

I used to shoot clays and remember one of the lads blasting a rabbit - I played hell with him when he said he wasn't gonna eat it (also, I've never eaten rabbit myself as can't bring myself to eat Mopsy the fluffy bunnywunny)

I'm aware of where my food comes from and have no probs with others hunting but I'm against killing for sport

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I used to shoot clays and remember one of the lads blasting a rabbit - I played hell with him when he said he wasn't gonna eat it (also, I've never eaten rabbit myself as can't bring myself to eat Mopsy the fluffy bunnywunny)

I'm aware of where my food comes from and have no probs with others hunting but I'm against killing for sport"

I don't see the point of killing for the sake of killing...

I went beating a couple of times with my old man, can't say I liked much...masses of birds bred specifically to be killed, driven over the top of a line of guns under the guise of sport...it's not really is it? That plus the guns only take a brace of birds home each despite shooting dozens and dozens, even hundreds of birds each, so many some carry two guns and employ somebody to load as they shoot...the rest of the birds just go to the game dealer for a few pence each.....it becomes living target practise, in which case, give me a clay trap any day.....

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I can't eat anything that has a head,eyes or a tail on my plate,not even prawns. I try not to think about the animal when I see bones on my plate. Sometimes legs of lamb make me feel quivery but I remind myself how good it tastes and I get over it "

I was brought up by a couple of Cypriots...I'd regularly see stuff looking back at me from my plate so I've become desensitized to it really...

That lamb was once all fluffy and bounding around it's mummy on the fields and that bacon was once a squeaky little piglet all pink and mischief....the circle of life and all that jazz I guess.

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By *bony in IvoryCouple
over a year ago

Black&White Utopia

Pheasant , duck, rabbit and even squirrel been shot and eaten in my family... Ferrets and working dogs been the norm too... Agree with you OP ... Am sure some people forget the meat they get pre packed in shops is a dead animal! Lol

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"happy to eat meat..

i like being ignoarant to the process of it all"

Not myself....if I had issues with the process of annimals becoming dinner, I'd become vegetarian...it was a sentient life once, and should be respected as such rather than treat as a lump of food just found on a shelf....but then, perhaps that's me...

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By *bony in IvoryCouple
over a year ago

Black&White Utopia

"Top man if you fancy a day on guns give us a pm to many people live in caccoons these days so what plans tonight stew or garlic rabbit ?? pigeon is the best meat I've had just like serlion

I own a couple of 16's and and a rapid seven

And gotta agree, bit of pigeon goes down a treat...not had any in a bit though...prefer them fatted in summer

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pigeon breast, splash of soy sauce on the BBQ ... Delish!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"happy to eat meat..

i like being ignoarant to the process of it all

don't have an issue with it all.. id not be able to kill an animal i just choose not to over think stuff.

i buy within my financial limits (free range) and hope animals are kept well until the end

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I had a pet turkey called Gobble Gobble.

He ended up gobbled.

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By *yrdwomanWoman
over a year ago

Putting the 'cum' in Eboracum

I had partridge at a restaurant over Christmas and got two bits of shot in it. I didn't mind (as long as my tooth is fine so am I0, and I often wonder how people think the meat comes to be on their plate. The farmers don't hypnotise them to death.

Rabbits are such dull meat though, although hare can be a bit the other way, very gamey. I am happy to eat any meat or other food foraged, as long as the person knows what they're doing. If the stomach gets punctured it can taint the meat. Bleah.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

" Pheasant , duck, rabbit and even squirrel been shot and eaten in my family... Ferrets and working dogs been the norm too... Agree with you OP ... Am sure some people forget the meat they get pre packed in shops is a dead animal! Lol

All of the above have crossed my table too at some point or other, had pheasant curry just two days ago in fact when my old man gave me a bird from a brace he'd fetched back from beating...even the squirrell I had once, was quite nice

Yeah, I think folk do just see a piece of meat, whatever it may be as just that, a piece of food and forget it once was a sentient living creature....

Gotta say, I'm quite thankful for my upbringing and the connection and respect I was given for what's on my plate.....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My husband & I both hunt & go rabbiting deer stalking ect...so it's natural for us to eat what we kill...most people will dissagree & say omg like it's something real shockingly odd...I was raised this way...nothing like living in the countryside (smiles))...

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Me too! I also freak out if I see a dead animal on the road. I have an almost phobia of dead insects. Live are fine.

You will often find me gently escorting a huge hairy spider out of my house as I couldn't even begin to think about killing it.

But I do eat meat. But only completely unrecogniseable meat.

And only if the texture is really uniform with no weird bits in it.

Eew. Can't do it. Sorry.

(As a kid I was addicted to sweets and someone bought me some of those haribo-type sweets in the shape of earthworms.

I really desperately wanted to eat one. I tried and threw up.

Im good at other things though. Promise!

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

Anyhow, this got me thinking, how many folk out there are that disconnected from the meat on their plates? "

Very much so, thank god, I doubt I would eat much meat if I was not disconnected. Oh I lived half my life in agricultural Gloucestershire, involved in the veterinary/nutrition field, I understand the process very well indeed. But as a trainer of horses I have worked with the fear of animals and I would be totally distraught standing in the average abattoir I am quite sure. I have less problem with a wild animal being shot for food - best life and death I reckon.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

I don't eat meat anymore but not because I'm a vegetarian. I was quite happy to eat and know where everything came from except lamb, had to detatch myself from that

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By *ranny-CrumpetWoman
over a year ago

The Town by The Cross

Next you'll be telling me that Fish don't have fingers ! and prawns don't have balls !

Course I know where food comes from :P

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By *horltzMan
over a year ago

heysham

"Next you'll be telling me that Fish don't have fingers ! and prawns don't have balls !

Course I know where food comes from :P "

What about squid rings ?

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By *risky_MareWoman
over a year ago

...Up on the Downs

"I don't eat meat anymore but not because I'm a vegetarian. I was quite happy to eat and know where everything came from except lamb, had to detatch myself from that"

Though most people don't realise by the time lamb is slaughtered it is sodding great sheep, lol!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I don't eat meat anymore but not because I'm a vegetarian. I was quite happy to eat and know where everything came from except lamb, had to detatch myself from that"

i cant eat lamb when we have sheep in the field out the back.. seams a bit cruel, could be chomping on some relative and i think 'wonder if they smell the lamb cooking and think 'phwoarrr that smells yum' like i do

but when they arent there i love lamb

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Grew up near a bacon factory often saw them having their throats slit and hearing the squealing so doesn't bother me. But dint think I could kill it myself

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By *horltzMan
over a year ago

heysham

I detatch myself from the process , purely because I'm squeamish , if I had to live in the wild , I would have no problem hunting , as long as the wife did the prep for the meal

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

"I don't eat meat anymore but not because I'm a vegetarian. I was quite happy to eat and know where everything came from except lamb, had to detatch myself from that

but when they arent there i love lamb

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when I was little I used to watch the lambs being born and take the cade lambs and bottle feed them so I think that's why. I love cows as animals but don't have a problem with them at all

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By *bony in IvoryCouple
over a year ago

Black&White Utopia

Yeah, I think folk do just see a piece of meat, whatever it may be as just that, a piece of food and forget it once was a sentient living creature....

Gotta say, I'm quite thankful for my upbringing and the connection and respect I was given for what's on my plate....."
yeap likewise... Learnt alot and deff got the connection and respect

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I had partridge at a restaurant over Christmas and got two bits of shot in it. I didn't mind (as long as my tooth is fine so am I0, and I often wonder how people think the meat comes to be on their plate. The farmers don't hypnotise them to death.

I've not had partrdge in such a long time....I can barely remember the taste of it...I love seeing them though, the red legs and the little native grey partridge...love seeing the little family groups hanging about near the hedgerows in summer

Gotta say, I quite like rabbit, its a good meat to stew or pie as it takes flavour on well I think....on its own yes, it can be a little bland and those old buck rabbits can be like old boots!

Hare though I love....eaten so much in my time! My mum makes it for my old man, she cooks it with a ton of onion and wow...its one of my fave dishes....reminds me of being a kid

In fact the leg bone of a hare has a natural hole in it, and my dad has an old Cypriot hunting bag called a verhka (spelled phonetically) and its covered I'm leather tassels, each one has a bone strung onto it and there must be 130 or more on it...one for every hare he's shot in his life....

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By *panker53Man
over a year ago

leeds

people in general don't seem to understand where food comes from

lots don't even cook it just eat out or microwave

my daughter once told me she was a vegetarian and then whent out looking for mince to make it and came back with beef mince and I had to re educate her it was dead cow

such a shame as she was born on a farm

and wont handle raw meet just buys diced meet

I used to work for a guy who had a pheasant shoot and gave me fresh pheasant but I had to prepare them so I used to sneak them into house at the time as I lived near leeds uni and was surrounded by students

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By *issHottieBottieWoman
over a year ago

Kent

I used to work in a butchers so often had sides of beef or whole pigs as scenery.. No issue with eating meat or how it comes to be on my plate but I couldn't go shooting rabbit or anything like that.

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By *icketysplitsWoman
over a year ago

Way over Yonder, that's where I'm bound

I'm very removed from the food on my plate as I don't even cook it.

However, I appreciate it has been killed for my pleasure and sustenance and am grateful to those that provide that service.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Top man if you fancy a day on guns give us a pm to many people live in caccoons these days so what plans tonight stew or garlic rabbit ?? pigeon is the best meat I've had just like serlion

I own a couple of 16's and and a rapid seven

And gotta agree, bit of pigeon goes down a treat...not had any in a bit though...prefer them fatted in summer

That pheasant curry was nice though!!! I got on with that, didn't i?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Disconnection from the food process!.

I'm afraid to say the amount of humans on the planet today is the reason we have intense farming.

There's just no other way.

I think people are disconnected from alot of the important things food being one of them!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I'm very awear of how meat gets on our plates that's why i don't eat it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Went along with boss to pheasant shoot. Bored to tears I was.

Was really impressed by the taste of it later though!

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