More "Sunlit Uplands"

[Canary42]

https://uk.yahoo.com/news/grown-men-tears-hundreds-pigs-163700057.html

[pixie374]

I would have thought there were quite strict rules on methods, places, storage etc, which would prevent being able to sell meat that hasn't come up to those standards.

Gulliver, it's hard to see how it's about Brexit? Unless you are suggesting we are using cheap labour from abroad- at wages which aren't workable here?

[naomi24]

Farmers here kill their own animals and local butchers do the rest for them. Some people do the same with roadkill - deer, pheasant etc.

[pixie374]

I don't mean for personal use, naomi. I meant for public sale and consumption.

[AuntPG]

https://www.food.gov.uk/safety-hygiene/home-slaughter-of-livestock

Thats a very wide assumption Naomi - Its not easy to slaughter an animal at home and every (yes every, including us) farmer I know will send their stock to a licenced slaughterer/butcher to be dispatched and packed. Apart from the fact you need specialist equipment, a farm is not the most hygienic place, and a butcher will not accept a carcass that has not been skinned or eviscerated. Our butcher charges £25 per lamb and they come back chopped up, wrapped in plastic ready for the freezer.

[naomi24]

I wasn’t talking to you, pixie. Just commenting on what pasta said.

APG, I’m not assuming anything. That’s what some of the farmers here do.

[pixie374]

Wasn't talking to you either- responding to the thread :-)

[naomi24]

Oh right. Not addressing ‘Naomi’ then.

[pixie374]

Lol. I knew you would only see 17:44.... and miss the point. Bless you x

[naomi24]

Pardon?

[pixie374]

Don't worry, you get exceptionally confused. I won't add to your bewilderment x

[naomi24]

And she’s off!

Pixie, my comments didn’t relate to your posts. That shouldn’t be too difficult to understand.

[pixie374]

Well done, you... x

[naomi24]

Grow up pixie. This is becoming tedious.

[pixie374]

Exactly....

[Ellipsis]

It's far easier to make up what they should do, than look up what they're allowed to do ...

[AuntPG]

Ellipsis, why people make things up and post them as facts bewilders me. Taken form the Food Standards Agency link

https://www.food.gov.uk/sites/default/files/media/document/home-slaughter-guide-england-and-wales-september-2020-.pdf

“Home slaughter” is the slaughter of a livestock animal by its owner on their property for their own personal consumption or that of members of their immediate family living there. Home slaughter does not take place in an approved slaughterhouse. Carcases or parts of carcases from home slaughter livestock, other than those being disposed of as animal by- products, cannot be removed to another premises for processing.

So the post at 17.35 is incorrect.

[naomi24]

APG, no it isn't.

From you. //“Home slaughter” is the slaughter of a livestock animal by its owner on their property for their own personal consumption or that of members of their immediate family living there//

Some farmers here, as I said, kill their own animals.

[douglas9401]

Comin' round here with your facts an' that, what use is that in a pandemic/Brexit/crisis/immigration/shortage situation? :-)

[douglas9401]

"Some farmers here, as I said, kill their own animals."

You also added, then omitted that local butchers do the rest, which isn't, apparently, allowed.

[naomi24]

Douglas, //You also added, then omitted that local butchers do the rest, which isn't, apparently, allowed. //

Just saying what happens. They do the same with road-kill, as I said. If a deer jumps a hedge in front of their trucks, they take it to a local butcher and have it butchered for their own freezers.