See people complain about the EU laws about food labelling being over the top but if people stopped taking the p**s it wouldn't be needed in the first place. People have already forgotten the horse meat scandles too.
I'm joining the grumpy and ill club today. My car has sold and I feel rough as a very rough thing. Now I need to find a new car among the thousands of dodgy second hand dogs out there.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
Best of luck. It might be worth putting word out amongst your friends and relations. maybe someone knows someone who's selling. That's how we usually do it
I don't see why the slaughterer can't drive to the farm and kill the animals there, put the carcasses in his lorry and take them away. It would be less stressful for the animal and cheaper to transport.
There has to be specialist vet inspection. Highly regulated conditions at the slaughter house. Animals must not see any slaughter etc. Then the animals must be bled and gutted immediately in a specific way, the organs inspected for sign of illness, and all the waste dealt with, the hide removed promptly and the carcass stamped, hung and chilled straight away. Very few farms have this sort of facility.Â
We used  to take our bullocks, pigs and fat lambs to the local abattoir. They were well and  humanely treated and were never stressed when they were there.  Honestly. We cared about our animals and the staff at that particular abattoir were good folk.Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I bet you didnât send them for a drive in a lorry from Cornwall to Scotland for a jolly. You can easily tell if the animal was at all stressed at the slaughter house. Doesnât happen so much these days as it used to.   Of course they have to go to Scotland first, people will pay a lot more for Scottish beef.Â
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Â
Does Aberdeen Angus taste different if it's reared in Scotland?đ
Of course it doesnât, Cornwallâs mainly beef /dairy country, whatâs different from Cornish grass to Scottish, but people go by the label. And of course itâs mor expensive if the label says reared in Scotland. Everything needs a sort out and a shake up.Â
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.Â
I have no idea why Scottish beef would be a premium 'label' at this end of the country. In Scotland, fair enough. But down here, hundreds of miles away? Bonkers. It's not like we don't have enough rain to grow decent grass......
Gardening on the edge of Exmoor, in Devon
âIt's still magic even if you know how it's done.âÂ
@wild edges My husband once bought a second-hand Rover at a car auction. It was known as rover the dog for the brief time it lived with us.
My dad bought a Rover 620 at auction years ago. Probably the best car he ever owned. It never broke down and I don't think he ever serviced it properly. He definitely never cleaned it My mum had to force him to stop driving it eventually because she said it was too embarassing for work use. I borrowed it for a year after that and only cleaned it up so I could take girls out in it. It's probably still going somewhere.
If you can keep your head, while those around you are losing theirs, you may not have grasped the seriousness of the situation.
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We used  to take our bullocks, pigs and fat lambs to the local abattoir. They were well and  humanely treated and were never stressed when they were there.  Honestly. We cared about our animals and the staff at that particular abattoir were good folk.Â
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You can easily tell if the animal was at all stressed at the slaughter house. Doesnât happen so much these days as it used to. Â Â
Of course they have to go to Scotland first, people will pay a lot more for Scottish beef.Â
Everything needs a sort out and a shake up.Â
âIt's still magic even if you know how it's done.âÂ