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[1stclassalan]

With regards to sausages, if you buy from a reputable traceable source (ours are free range traditional breeds and we are a very ssmall scale producer) you will only find belly, shoulder and ends of joints in our sausages. There again we are more about animal welfare than making a fast buck!!

O.K. I'll give you that one - I wondered why my ears were burning!

How far away are you from Rickmansworth? Even the best butcher around here sticks a load of rusk in his sausages - you may as well go to the bakers!

 

[PandorasJar]

O.K. I'll give you that one - I wondered why my ears were burning!

How far away are you from Rickmansworth? Even the best butcher around here sticks a load of rusk in his sausages - you may as well go to the bakers!

We don't put anything in the sausages - including rusk. Very filling and lovely rich sausages. Completely different taste though and quite a few friends find them too strong!

 

[tallyho!]

We don't put anything in the sausages - including rusk. Very filling and lovely rich sausages. Completely different taste though and quite a few friends find them too strong!

Please! Sop it, I've just eaten and I'm hungry again!!! This baby is ravenous!!!

 

[PandorasJar]

PandorasJar I reckon you've got a fainting goat (bred with a brain disorder so they faint when under stress and the wolves take them rather than the sheep) I actually saw some for sale in the UK this year but not sure whether it was a phishing advert.Can't see the point of them myself

Wrong again.

I'll try and get a video of it in the summer if we take her out. She coughs and then looks round to see if anyone is watching then lays down. She is fully aware of what is going on and not unconscious at any point. She learned to do it after coughing with something caught in her throat and got a few people to back off. I watched her perfect it a couple of years back over several months.

She is also renowned for nicking stuff out of handbags. Not a silly goat.

While being led is most definitely a plant and lie down and not a faint either. She doesn't bother with me as I just sit down with her. Anyone who ups the anti, gets it upped back at them.

 

[PandorasJar]

I love goats!!! My granny had a few. They really are very intelligent. In malaysia, you can keep and slaughter your own food. *Everyone knows where their food comes from, the kids probably played with their food while it was still alive. There is nothing wrong with that.

Goat curry is my absolute favourite meal.

*things are going very western over there now and they have tescos so who knows what's in a malay burger!!!!

I love the meat. Goats are actually the only animal where I can't watch anything meat wise grow up. No problem with any other animal but if the goat is named and petted I will not touch it. They really worm their way into your heart! Only animal that I couldn't name though, so have nothing against it!

Although if I had pygmy's my views would probably change!!!

These are the cuddly babies we have...

They spend most of their time on your lap/shoulders/arms. If you dare ignore them while lecturing they will scratch your leg until you give up and pick them up. They will try this on even at full size, ridiculous lumps.

 

[tallyho!]

I love the meat. Goats are actually the only animal where I can't watch anything meat wise grow up. No problem with any other animal but if the goat is named and petted I will not touch it. They really worm their way into your heart! Only animal that I couldn't name though, so have nothing against it!

Although if I had pygmy's my views would probably change!!!

These are the cuddly babies we have...

They spend most of their time on your lap/shoulders/arms. If you dare ignore them while lecturing they will scratch your leg until you give up and pick them up. They will try this on even at full size, ridiculous lumps.

Ha ha yes! We loved the kids! They were into everything! I really miss the smell of goat...

 

[spottybotty]

My fear is that they will have to ban it. That is an awful thing for horse welfare, but I can't see them doing anything else due to the expense of policing the system.

Thats exactly what I thought when I read about this latest fiasco. I have one that is on bute to keep him comfortable as a field ornament .I know for certain I would have to PTS if a ban was introduced

 

[Aru]

Thats exactly what I thought when I read about this latest fiasco. I have one that is on bute to keep him comfortable as a field ornament .I know for certain I would have to PTS if a ban was introduced

I suspect that the days of Bute being freely available from vets to have a stock at home for minor injuries may be over now and that medications in equine will likely start facing the same scrutiny as the cattle industry.
Over the last few years there have been rumbling from europe of phenylbutazone(bute) being banned for its use in horses anyway... for fear it enter the food chain...so I really hope that this will not be the final nail in the coffin for the drug.In one way though they are right to ban it.Its not a safe drug in the food chain at all and passports are not enough to stop the unscrupulous plus its very broadly used without any records as it is.

Even though it is a drug with side effects and is occasionally overused/misused it is one of the essentials in equine practice and if bute and danilion(as it is of the same base drug)go off market the costs of keeping the likes of older arthritic horses comfortable will go up quite a lot

 

[Wagtail]

I suspect that the days of Bute being freely available from vets to have a stock at home for minor injuries may be over now and that medications in equine will likely start facing the same scrutiny as the cattle industry.
Over the last few years there have been rumbling from europe of phenylbutazone(bute) being banned for its use in horses anyway... for fear it enter the food chain...so I really hope that this will not be the final nail in the coffin for the drug.In one way though they are right to ban it.Its not a safe drug in the food chain at all and passports are not enough to stop the unscrupulous plus its very broadly used without any records as it is.

Even though it is a drug with side effects and is occasionally overused/misused it is one of the essentials in equine practice and if bute and danilion(as it is of the same base drug)go off market the costs of keeping the likes of older arthritic horses comfortable will go up quite a lot

It is very concerning indeed. There are some people (like me) that have an anaphylaptic reaction to NSAIDs. Thankfully I don't eat meat but it just goes to show how dangerous this could be. I have to handle bute with gloves and a mask.

 

[Theocat]

The best possible outcome to this whole saga is that a) the passport system gets properly tightened up and b) people in this country perhaps start to think about eating horse meat for the right reasons, which would be a real help in welfare terms, with knock on positive effects for horse transportation and slaughter.

I won't hold my breath

 

[pricklyflower]

Little bit off topic I guess but thought I'd share... I went to see a nutritionist and after reading my food diary she asked me if I would take a pill containing x, x, x and x (can't remember what the words she used were but they were all long words that were highly difficult to spell or pronounce) and I of course answered no. She then asked me why I would happily eat them in a ready meal. Since then I have not eaten any products with ingrediants in them that I do not recognise.

She also told me that the reason why we see more "moobs" nowadays is because of female hormones being used in processed foods... scary stuff.

I do appreciate that processed foods are cheaper but there is no way I would prepare meals for my family knowing those ingrediants were in it.

 

[Beausmate]

There's a mention on the BBC website that the horsemeat came from Romania, to the manufacturers in France and then to the UK. The French company are not best pleased, apparently.

I don't fancy eating anything I can't pronounce!