My humble apologies Lady Minx!
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You were very close with your pronunciation Visitor
Silly errorā¦and I knew it was that placeā¦
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Yup, whole seeds. 
@Minx , Yep, even better than Whitby, if you get get them from
the fish market shop !!
Donkeyman! 
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Oooooooooooooh yes! Iāve often said things like, āJust look at that suckling pig over there, nom, nom, nom.ā And all the lamb chops gambolling in the fields in springtime. 
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My son still tells me off every time I shout āmint sauceā when I see sheep in the fields.
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I could quite easily be a vegetarian. I dont eat meat except occasionally mincemeat and chicken breast meat. I cant bear fat , makes me heave yuk.
Iām heavily into plant food these days in fact as I type this my husband is making a quorn and mushroom curry for tea.
This past couple of years it has been bothering me that animals are being killed just so we can eat them when there are so many other sources of protein. I get my protein from other sources making sure I get a well balanced diet.
I read somewhere that it would be much better for the environment if we started farming guinea pigs to eat. They are a delicacy in Peru, easy to farm, a good source of protein and they say they taste good. Cheap and easy in poor countries to set up a small, cottage industry type farm. Itās only in the west that we donāt like to eat rodents and insects
Not at all, I was brought up around farms. People had chicken, geese etc. I hunted rabbits & ate them. I went crabbing & ate those. I worked for a slaughterhouse for a few years delivering meat.
I was a vegetarian for a lot of years. Not due to animal rights as such, but simply because meat has never bothered me. I like vegetables.
Whilst I worked for the abattoir, I trained someone who was ex Army & who liked to tell stories about killing animals & eating them during survival training & killing a pig with his sheaf knife & then feeding his mates, whilst on active service in Bosnia. But he complained about the smell of blood on us after unloading & said the abattoir smelt awful during the day & did not turn up for his 3rd night after seeing one of the live animal trucks unloading. He, had sat in the truck with the curtains closed & could not watch the animals being unloaded. Saying it was too upsetting!
Trucks have curtains inside the cab, as they are also our bedroom.
Yes, is the ethics I guess - animals being killed. But they wouldnāt actually exist .in the first place unless there were meat eaters.to eat them.
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I think I could become a vegetarian too, my son is and a few of our friends.
Iāve had and cooked many meat free meals which are just as good as any
I have tried, but have long given up using meat substitutes, sausages, bacon and burgers are nowhere near the same, and quorn mince in a Bolognese sauce loses texture, but the vegetarian Hoisin duck I likeā¦.thatās providing the Hoisin is well cooked, singed on the edges and then added to a dry dish like fried rice, tastes nice and the texture is like meat.
Yes with age the more I think how and where our meat comes from does puts me off, as for killing, preparing and eatingā¦ā¦ā¦ā¦.no, I couldnāt
My daughters partner is a butcher, a family run business, they have their own farm, an abattoir and butcher shopsā¦. They have a policy, that Butchers must work two weeks a year in the abattoir
He laughs when people/customers say, and many doā¦ā¦ I couldnāt do that, yet are happy to eat meat.
I have heard of this before, guinea pigs !!!, I think of them as pets for children.
Stop playing with your food seems to have a different meaning
No I couldnāt, But I understand the advantages in breeding them for food, but can only assume the thought of eating Guinea pigs, Rats, and such by the Public, stops such a business venture
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My friend often winds up one of our Vegetarian friends, who forever complains a bout his liking for meat
He answers her with,
If God didnāt want us to eat animals, he shouldnāt have them out of food
I was told some from the travelling gypsy communities adore a fire cooked hedgehog.
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That is something I heard about over 50 yearsā ago in my āyoufā and that was also about the gypsy community. Apparently, they would cover the dead hedgehog in a layer of clay so when it was finished cooking, often in their camp fire, they could peel the spines off easily!
No idea if thatās true or not but it wouldnāt surprise me in the least if it was.
