Right that's it

[smokingboot]

Saw less than 5 minutes of a Gordon Ramse(a?}y programme last night. Piglets, 7 to 9 weeks old being castrated without anaesthetic, even he looked shocked. The reasoning is that boar hormones mean their wee has a really strong smell. The little things screamed and screamed, and I am awake now because I heard them in my dreams. Pigs are clever, highly sentient. They think and they feel, unlike the chimpthings doing this to them.

Been vegetarian before, 5 years of it, though not properly as I never gave up fish. Not that healthy for me...surf and turf and sushi is the best kind of food for me cos I'm part crocodile. As of now, I am giving up all pork unless I know it has been farmed humanely. Bye bye bacon, bye bye sausages. I won't miss you a bit. I'll hear that sound in my head, and eat veggie burgers content.

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[semyaza.livejournal.com]

I was vegetarian for over ten years. I thought it was an interesting thing to be, for awhile. I eat mainly chicken now because it's easy to get free-range, organic chicken. I occasionally eat other things (well, apart from the mounds of fruit and veggies), but pork is a problem. There's a farm on a nearby island that has organic pork but I've never seen it here. And really, there's no reason to eat pork, just as there's no earthly reason to eat veal. I wonder if lambs are castrated without anaesthetic?

[load-of-flannel.livejournal.com]

Not in this country no.... castrating animals of the age shown without anasthetic is Illegal in the UK. The footage shown was from Europe.

Large proportions of British Pork is free range raised in anycase... finding true organic is harder because of vaccinations and suchlike.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

I went veggie cos I developed a lump in my breast, and my mother showed me this study on Breast lumps in European Women. Apparently the ones who tended to get them most were meat eaters; southern europeans get them much less than northern ones, and on a milk free, meat free diet,a large percentage of the lumps grew smaller/disappeared. I took up the diet, and sure enough the thing went away.