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It is absolutely not cheaper to eat a healthy vegetarian diet than it is to live on processed crap. You clearly need to spend a week in...

There are people who cant afford to turn the heating on. People who rely on food banks just to eat. I live with and amongst these people...

Not affluence in terms of being rich, but if you can afford a horse or even to ride regularly then it the big scheme of things you are...

I bought a couple of leather headcollars earlier this year from Old Mill Saddlery, with engraved plates, very happy with them. I think...

On Monday afternoon I am taking a sheep to my local butcher. It will be put in a well bedded pen with other sheep the same age. On...

Abbatoirs DO differ, as well you know. Many, but not all abbatoirs use gas gondalas for pigs which is so appalling that the practice is...

I think you are entirely missing the point. No one has said anything anywhere about home slaughter. These farms use local slaughter...

On a tangent, the book Sitopia by Carolyn Steele is a great exploration of what is wrong with our food system, its wider impact, and how...

It's true because if stressed the pH of the meat changes and all of the 'normal' processes after are altered.

Wonderful memories. I think it needs to be remembered that housewives in my fathers era had the skills to cook and recognise all cuts of...

The traditional butcher is disappearing rapidly. My father was a traditional butcher and slaughter man, with a shop on a Council...

I am a senior citizen on the basic state pension and also pension credit, I count every penny, my nearest super shop a litre of milk in...

Yes, our food infrastructure is awful really, with fresh food being unavailable outside a supermarket in many places. A great many...

and location, many people don't have a handy farm down the road/farm shop/proper butchers

Not to take away from the absolute horror of this situation, but these cattle are being shipped from Uruguay to Turkey, and these...