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They're also religions of the Middle East. Pig meat would very quickly spoil in such warm environments.
legal or ethical?
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It stinks! And tastes as bad as it smells! But apparently it's very tasty with plenty of salt and vinegar.
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- Scottish Highlands
...and onions. I quite like it, actually.
Seeing a cow going into the abattoir out in the islands and had a quick word with the manager, hoping for tripe for my dogs. "You'll be lucky! That's a crofter's cow". I wasn't!
Tripe is probably one of the best foods for dogs, unwashed, what they call 'green tripe'. But, oh, it does make them fart!
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- Ardrossan Ayrshire
Question is, should you be eating the pig afterwards?
NO! The question is... should you be feeding a pig a load of dead lambs and after-births from a flock of sheep that may ( or may not, I realise) be suffering from an infection ( causing still-born lambs? or loaded heavily on apparently normal afterbirths?)...... What sort of person would take that risk? What about the law about disposal of deadstock?
As I`ve said before ... Surely you guys can find something USEFUL to discuss! I certainly won`t be visiting this thread again.
With mint sauce or apple sauce?
I remember being in Australia in early 1980s and a roadtrain overturned nearby the farmstead (driver dropped off) full of sheep. 40 dead ewes left by roadside when it got righted and unloaded.
We would pick up three or four for couple days, split them open and dumped them in pig pen. Sows loved them.
When got too high farmer got on to council to come clear stinking heap.
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- Ardrossan Ayrshire
It was more the concentration of toxins the nearer you get to the top of the food chain that I was musing. Like polar bear liver can kill you vith high concentrations of vitamin A.
Isn't it Mercury in Japanese caught tuna as well? Or used to be?
cheviot53
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- Dumfries & Galloway
Dad had grape vines growing in greenhouses and any dead lambs had to be buried under the vines to feed them
Ive, like most of us in the west, have never been really really hungry, so hungry, like you have read or heard, oral accounts of say japanese prisoners of war, that would eat any thing to stay alive, such as rats, or rice full and alive with weavils maggotts etc, a man, who lived down my road, now long dead, had been a japanese prisoner of war, my father said that he made it home all 4 stone of him, and had to spend a year in hospital being fed a diet to try to bring him back?
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I imagine they are doing that in Gazza today. My rather pathetic contribution is to cancel my subscription to a do-it-yourself web building site because of where the business is located. Yes, I know. Pretty disgusted to call myself British these days, but there's an election coming.
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ollie989898
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A lot of the religious rules on eating and hygiene were borne of practical considerations and disease risks.
There is a guy on youtube who I watch who keeps pigs outside on cover crops and woodland, they are amazing to see and watch. This is surely the natural environment for pigs.
There is a guy on youtube who I watch who keeps pigs outside on cover crops and woodland, they are amazing to see and watch. This is surely the natural environment for pigs.
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- Scottish Highlands
...and face coverings for religious reasons. Having seen what sun bathing did for my sister's complexion, I can see why eastern men are so keen to keep their women covered up!
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- NSW, Newstralya
wild pigs here certainly do a good job of cleaning up any carcasses, including their own . . .
just one of the reasons i wouldnt eat them
just let them rot
just one of the reasons i wouldnt eat them
just let them rot
Will Blackburn
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I always thought it was due to pigs eating grains that humans could eat.
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Probably several reasons combined. But given pigs omnivorous nature, and their ability to transform waste in to human edible protein, I don't think ancient people's were feeding swine on milling wheat.
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- Scottish Highlands
A bit OT, but the archaeologists (or at least the big fat bearded one) reckon stone age man drove pigs down from the north of Scotland for feasting at Stonehenge every year. They worked that out from DNA on the bones (ham sandwiches?). He's obviously not tried to drive a pig across a field!
Surely those pits were animal traps and is there any reason why Salisbury Plain could not have supported herds of pigs as numerous as the bison on the American plains? That would attract a mass migration of predators (i.e. humans) timed for an autumn harvest? Lots of feasting and Sodom and Gomorra, and get them piling stones for something to do to keep them busy? (Sorry about the digression, but this has worried me for some time!).
Surely those pits were animal traps and is there any reason why Salisbury Plain could not have supported herds of pigs as numerous as the bison on the American plains? That would attract a mass migration of predators (i.e. humans) timed for an autumn harvest? Lots of feasting and Sodom and Gomorra, and get them piling stones for something to do to keep them busy? (Sorry about the digression, but this has worried me for some time!).