This is why I don’t eat pork , the cruelty man inflicts on pigs the fifth most intelligent animal on the planet is appalling.
British supermarkets urged to stop selling PARMA HAM from caged pigs | Daily Mail Online
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For me it is forbidden (unless this old Levite was starving to death), but I get your revolution with the whole concept. It looks like my very distant forefathers knew a thing or two 
I really can’t bring myself to click on your link, Muddy. I don’t want to see animals in pain. But I saw this the other day, which made me glad I don’t eat pork either.
Being now a Pastafarian I can and do enjoy pork in all its forms. All forms of fish and animals do not die easily and so how dry smoked ham is produced is of no interest to me, the only reason that I avoid pate de foie gras is that I don’t like the greasy junk.
There is still too much cruelty in the production of meat for me to ever want to eat the flesh of any animal. Fortunately, I have never liked animal flesh, anyway.
The photos of that article looked even more cruel than usual.
I remember how sickening it was to discover the conditions in which veal calves were kept - these photos look equally sickening.
I just don’t know how people can treat other living creatures with such callous indifference and cruelty, just for a tenderer or tastier cut of meat.
It makes me feel both angry and sick. 
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Fine! I’ll have yours then! We are omnivores by nature.
I’ve never liked pork as it tastes YUK to me. I think if I was a big meat eater I might give it up altogether knowing the cruelty that goes on in the meat trade. I barely touch meat as I’ve never really liked it apart from chicken breast and even that I rarely have these days. The older I’m getting the more it upsets me about how we eat meat.
We don’t even need it but the hardfast meat eaters would argue with me over that lol.
I remember my Son phoning me one night to tell me how upset he was because he had been driving behind a truck load of sheep and he knew they were going to slaughter. He said awww Mum, I swear they knew they were going to their death they had a sad look in their eyes, bless him, I raised a compassionate lad.
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I’m not
I hate any form of animal abuse. Those poor pigs.
Mind you, it’s not a lot different to how it used to be for battery chickens, and the old Veal crates before they were banned. Humans have always been cruel to animals if it pays enough…
I am sick of some humans and their total lack of empathy for other creatures.
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Omnivores we may be but the it’s the way we treat animals that is important .
One day we will look back on the way we have kept innocent animals with a disgust that we feel for those who treated people cruelly in concentration camps .
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Crating It’s appalling and all for specialised meat products …it breaks my heart.
There are times and this is one I’m so glad to be a veggie.
Actually it’s usually the muscles and not the skin that make the best cuts of meat Boot…
Although I eat fish mainly, I will eat most meats, and Sunday dinner would be boring without a bit of beef, chicken or pork. As long as I don’t have to kill them.
? Sorry, I don’t follow your meaning ?
I didn’t mention skin - I mentioned animal flesh - isn’t that what the soft tissues between the skin and the bones is called? so that includes the muscle tissue and the surrounding fat.
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I hate any form of animal abuse. Those poor pigs.[/quote]
Yes, I can understand that. I lived on a farm. We did slaughter animals for food. My father was the culprit. Didn’t stop me eating the food.
Quite a few years ago I was in Turkey. There was a festival at the time. Cattle were slaughtered on the street. It shocked me at the time but I was told that it was the most humane and fasts slaughter. More so than in UK where we used arrestor bolts which are not so quick. I don’t know.
Pig is far too delicious to give up
oink, oink
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Grunted!
I don’t believe this at all .
I lived in an Islamic country for many years and knew the man who ran the slaughter house.
He was an Australian but he said he was sickened by the way the poor animals were slaughtered .
The pain and terror of the animals caused a release of adrenaline which toughens the meat and he tried to explain this to the local people without success . The captive bullet renders the animal unconscious immediately then it is bled out .
I do apologise Boot, I just saw the word flesh and thought of the skin…A senior moment I think…
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If it has got a face i eat it,i love meat,and a little fish too.
I could not be a none meat eater.
I would not go out and kill the animal,that`s why i pay the butcher.
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