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I'd tried veal, coincidentally enough when I hadn't known what it was wholeheartedly(Was a kid and knew it was beef) and I didn't care for it at all...I can't exactly remember how it tasted but I didn't like it...

I haven't had it since because I don't care for the meat...

I personally believe in doing things out of unquestionable logic and I don't see why anyone would waste the potential for roughly 500-700 lbs of meat...But seeing as how I'm a meat eater I feel I have no right to judge people who do in regards to eating veal as a meat, but I damn well have the right to feel wasting meat is wrong in my opinion and I won't take nothing back from that. Not when there are people that can benefit from the food.
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fuzzy butt;1038321 wrote: but that's what I mean . I don't think these calves should be wasted . but to send them off so young when they could have done someone somewhere some good as a grown steer.



why aren't we sending them overseas to help others in desperate need of good cattle ? At least for another blood line in a poor country ?


You're going to have to ask the people that eat veal that question...As for me I don't eat veal so I suppose all that I've contributed to this thread is all that I can say on the matter at this time...
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fuzzy butt;1038310 wrote: today is a peaceful sunny day I've been shopping and the house is clean and the roulettes are over the house practicing .



but something has muddled my day today .



I was on my way back home when i dropped into the service station . I saw a tandem full of cute little calves ( and I mean little) and i'm watching them as I fill up and thinking "gosh they are sooooo cute i just want to hug them."

I walked into pay for the petrol and May says they're cute arent' they? I siad "I just want to take them all home with me."



Now lets get something clear here I'm a hard arse when it comes to farm animals .we all know they end up on somebodys' plate or food for dogs etc. I'm akin to skinning a rabbit or choppin goff a chooks head ....I have no problems killing my own animals..........





But what happened next repulsed me.



May is a country girl born and bred, and she looks in mild amusement at me and says .."that's why I can't eat veal anymore". I didn't understand at first, because I'm thinking as I'm filling up "Wow the drought really is hitting hard to sell them all so young".



Nope!!!!!



She turned to the bloke about to take them into market and says .........."this girl needs an education" ......stunned silence on my part. I knew instinctively what was coming ........surely not ....who would do such a thing? One of these beasts was so small I could have picked it up by one hand and cradled it in my own arms.



Well people, you guessed it, they will be on someones veal plate in three days time. they were being taken to the market and sold off as rich peoples food.



why? I don't get it Why?



Rest assured though when you and I buy veal at the supermarket it's around the twelve month old mark ....a substantial beast by then.



BUT A TWO DAY OLD CALF? that's what you're getting in a good restaraunt. It's the upper class restaraunts that do this . Apparently top CHEFS only want the softest of meats. .........................I'm dry retching just thinking about it.



So in a nut shell when you order the veal at a good restaraunt? You're basically getting 2 to 7 day old calves ...............You are literally eating babies .





And yes at first i thought they were pulling me leg .....us Australians are very convining when we want to "have a go " but this wasn't anything like that. this was real.



It makes me think kind of like a good samaritan when i took the cow and the male calf off a local dairy farmer to raise. They had good lives ........yeah okay they were spoiled rotten but at least they grew big enough to make someones plate look substantial rather than this pitiful little piece of meat some idiot calls cuisine.





okay rant over i just wanted to share my disappointment in humanity.
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fuzzy butt;1038310 wrote: today is a peaceful sunny day I've been shopping and the house is clean and the roulettes are over the house practicing .

but something has muddled my day today .

I was on my way back home when i dropped into the service station . I saw a tandem full of cute little calves ( and I mean little) and i'm watching them as I fill up and thinking "gosh they are sooooo cute i just want to hug them."

I walked into pay for the petrol and May says they're cute arent' they? I siad "I just want to take them all home with me."

Now lets get something clear here I'm a hard arse when it comes to farm animals .we all know they end up on somebodys' plate or food for dogs etc. I'm akin to skinning a rabbit or choppin goff a chooks head ....I have no problems killing my own animals..........



But what happened next repulsed me.

May is a country girl born and bred, and she looks in mild amusement at me and says .."that's why I can't eat veal anymore". I didn't understand at first, because I'm thinking as I'm filling up "Wow the drought really is hitting hard to sell them all so young".

Nope!!!!!

She turned to the bloke about to take them into market and says .........."this girl needs an education" ......stunned silence on my part. I knew instinctively what was coming ........surely not ....who would do such a thing? One of these beasts was so small I could have picked it up by one hand and cradled it in my own arms.

Well people, you guessed it, they will be on someones veal plate in three days time. they were being taken to the market and sold off as rich peoples food.

why? I don't get it Why?

Rest assured though when you and I buy veal at the supermarket it's around the twelve month old mark ....a substantial beast by then.

BUT A TWO DAY OLD CALF? that's what you're getting in a good restaraunt. It's the upper class restaraunts that do this . Apparently top CHEFS only want the softest of meats. .........................I'm dry retching just thinking about it.

So in a nut shell when you order the veal at a good restaraunt? You're basically getting 2 to 7 day old calves ...............You are literally eating babies .



And yes at first i thought they were pulling me leg .....us Australians are very convining when we want to "have a go " but this wasn't anything like that. this was real.

It makes me think kind of like a good samaritan when i took the cow and the male calf off a local dairy farmer to raise. They had good lives ........yeah okay they were spoiled rotten but at least they grew big enough to make someones plate look substantial rather than this pitiful little piece of meat some idiot calls cuisine.



okay rant over i just wanted to share my disappointment in humanity.


How do you feel about lamb?
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gmc;1038431 wrote: How do you feel about lamb?


I took my dogs into the heart of the Gloucestershire countryside once and came face to face with a 'Harris Hawk'. It wasn't meant to be there, it has legged it from a breeder, anyway it scared the crap out of me. We just don' get anything like that in this country.

My brother was driving along a country road once in Sussex only to have a large kangaroo boing across the front of the car. His wife accussed him of drinking, but they are quite commom now after so many escape from collections.

Ostritche's have also been seen shopping in parts of England where they have escaped from farms as well.

If i stroll through my local countryside, i will always come across at least 4 sets of teenagers having sex, 32 abandoned shopping trollys, 6 pairs of odd shoes, piles of fly tipped rubbish, abandoned rampant goats, 2 police officers where they shouldn't be, 6 wino's, 3 broken bycycles, 22 broken bottles, the embers of 14 illegal bonfires abandoned rolls of barbed wire, 3 loose dogs and geese, 18 nutters weilding metel detectors and the odd lost physopath who can''t find his way back to the home, 68 burnt out tyres and 7 burnt out alpha Romeo's.

Other than that, it's a jolly nice day out in the country.
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Accountable;1038406 wrote: Wow! I can't imagine how worked up you must get over eggs. :-3
It's bean sprouts that really get to me. I mean they coulda become full growd beans for crying out loud.:rolleyes:
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Bull crap!!!!!!...

And the occasional dead roadkill...

...

And then more bull crap!!!!!!!...
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My brothers friend found a decomposed body once!!!!!!:-2:-2:-2
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When your out for a stroll in the countryside with your dogs, you are not suppossed to stumle across one of these:

http://www.harrishawk.co.uk/

I don't care if it escaped from a collector, we're British for goodness sake. We don't expect to get accosted by one of these when the largest species i am used to is a very large buzzard.

It scared the crap out of me. (If your wondering scale, it's foot was bigger than my hand, and it had a very nasty big pointy beak that i didn't like the look of either)
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fuzzy butt;1038310 wrote: today is a peaceful sunny day I've been shopping and the house is clean and the roulettes are over the house practicing .

but something has muddled my day today .

I was on my way back home when i dropped into the service station . I saw a tandem full of cute little calves ( and I mean little) and i'm watching them as I fill up and thinking "gosh they are sooooo cute i just want to hug them."

I walked into pay for the petrol and May says they're cute arent' they? I siad "I just want to take them all home with me."

Now lets get something clear here I'm a hard arse when it comes to farm animals .we all know they end up on somebodys' plate or food for dogs etc. I'm akin to skinning a rabbit or choppin goff a chooks head ....I have no problems killing my own animals..........



But what happened next repulsed me.

May is a country girl born and bred, and she looks in mild amusement at me and says .."that's why I can't eat veal anymore". I didn't understand at first, because I'm thinking as I'm filling up "Wow the drought really is hitting hard to sell them all so young".

Nope!!!!!

She turned to the bloke about to take them into market and says .........."this girl needs an education" ......stunned silence on my part. I knew instinctively what was coming ........surely not ....who would do such a thing? One of these beasts was so small I could have picked it up by one hand and cradled it in my own arms.

Well people, you guessed it, they will be on someones veal plate in three days time. they were being taken to the market and sold off as rich peoples food.

why? I don't get it Why?

Rest assured though when you and I buy veal at the supermarket it's around the twelve month old mark ....a substantial beast by then.

BUT A TWO DAY OLD CALF? that's what you're getting in a good restaraunt. It's the upper class restaraunts that do this . Apparently top CHEFS only want the softest of meats. .........................I'm dry retching just thinking about it.

So in a nut shell when you order the veal at a good restaraunt? You're basically getting 2 to 7 day old calves ...............You are literally eating babies .



And yes at first i thought they were pulling me leg .....us Australians are very convining when we want to "have a go " but this wasn't anything like that. this was real.

It makes me think kind of like a good samaritan when i took the cow and the male calf off a local dairy farmer to raise. They had good lives ........yeah okay they were spoiled rotten but at least they grew big enough to make someones plate look substantial rather than this pitiful little piece of meat some idiot calls cuisine.



okay rant over i just wanted to share my disappointment in humanity.


I love Veal Scalopini. Eating veal just cause it's not full grown is no different that eating an egg or a salmon that has not reached maturity. How about the poor little lammies? Yum yum
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jimbo;1039995 wrote: is that mint to be funny trust ewe:)


Ewe two?:)

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This is one thread i wish i had never opened..i am touchy enough about eating meat as it is..but a baby cow...:(:thinking: thats horrible..
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fuzzy butt;1040123 wrote: It's like eating an egg? Oh please the chances of anyone these days eating a fertilised egg is basically zilch. The eggs you eat are unfertilised no possibility at all of it being a baby chicken it's not even an embryo:-5:-5 and a chicken expells and egg just as a human female does. (sorry to be so crude but women are not giving birth to a baby everytime they have a period.)



lon have you ever eaten a 2 day old lamb? even a month old lamb? It doesn't happen.
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fuzzy butt;1040156 wrote: I don't know I probably sound like a hypocrit here but eating something (veal)that's twelve months old is a lot different to a week old ......to me that's just greedy.


And you get a very small portion:(
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i can't eat any baby animal. just a softy:-4
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fuzzy butt;1038310 wrote: today is a peaceful sunny day I've been shopping and the house is clean and the roulettes are over the house practicing .

but something has muddled my day today .

I was on my way back home when i dropped into the service station . I saw a tandem full of cute little calves ( and I mean little) and i'm watching them as I fill up and thinking "gosh they are sooooo cute i just want to hug them."

I walked into pay for the petrol and May says they're cute arent' they? I siad "I just want to take them all home with me."

Now lets get something clear here I'm a hard arse when it comes to farm animals .we all know they end up on somebodys' plate or food for dogs etc. I'm akin to skinning a rabbit or choppin goff a chooks head ....I have no problems killing my own animals..........



But what happened next repulsed me.

May is a country girl born and bred, and she looks in mild amusement at me and says .."that's why I can't eat veal anymore". I didn't understand at first, because I'm thinking as I'm filling up "Wow the drought really is hitting hard to sell them all so young".

Nope!!!!!

She turned to the bloke about to take them into market and says .........."this girl needs an education" ......stunned silence on my part. I knew instinctively what was coming ........surely not ....who would do such a thing? One of these beasts was so small I could have picked it up by one hand and cradled it in my own arms.

Well people, you guessed it, they will be on someones veal plate in three days time. they were being taken to the market and sold off as rich peoples food.

why? I don't get it Why?

Rest assured though when you and I buy veal at the supermarket it's around the twelve month old mark ....a substantial beast by then.

BUT A TWO DAY OLD CALF? that's what you're getting in a good restaraunt. It's the upper class restaraunts that do this . Apparently top CHEFS only want the softest of meats. .........................I'm dry retching just thinking about it.

So in a nut shell when you order the veal at a good restaraunt? You're basically getting 2 to 7 day old calves ...............You are literally eating babies .



And yes at first i thought they were pulling me leg .....us Australians are very convining when we want to "have a go " but this wasn't anything like that. this was real.

It makes me think kind of like a good samaritan when i took the cow and the male calf off a local dairy farmer to raise. They had good lives ........yeah okay they were spoiled rotten but at least they grew big enough to make someones plate look substantial rather than this pitiful little piece of meat some idiot calls cuisine.



okay rant over i just wanted to share my disappointment in humanity.


OMG thats just disgusting!!!

being a cattle farmer myself i have a hard enough time sending the calves away to the stock market when they are 500-600 pds, but i can't imagine sending off the little baby ones to become veal! this makes me sick!!!

i remember the little calves that i used to bottle feed, i got so attached to them, i couldn't imagine sending them away like that!!! :(
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oooo let's change the subject. no more babies:-1
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fuzzy butt;1040123 wrote: It's like eating an egg? Oh please the chances of anyone these days eating a fertilised egg is basically zilch. The eggs you eat are unfertilised no possibility at all of it being a baby chicken it's not even an embryo:-5:-5 and a chicken expells and egg just as a human female does. (sorry to be so crude but women are not giving birth to a baby everytime they have a period.)

lon have you ever eaten a 2 day old lamb? even a month old lamb? It doesn't happen.


I am not sure. I have eaten some pretty young lamb but I don't know how old. Their shanks were sure tiny though. And, I have eaten Phillipino Baluts.
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Lon;1040288 wrote: I am not sure. I have eaten some pretty young lamb but I don't know how old. Their shanks were sure tiny though. And, I have eaten Phillipino Baluts. the way the laws makers are NOT watching sometimes i wonder what i am eating????:confused:
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Nomad;1040339 wrote:
:confused: Horse? Goat?
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i have seen videos of how they kill the sheep and cows in the slaughterhouse and of course like any (more or less) normal person i found it chilling, not to mention disgusting. I felt really sorry for the people that have to do this disgusting work all day long too!

But then i decided i could either give up this meat if it bothered me so much or just not watch these videos anymore. To do otherwise just makes me a hypocrite of the worst order.

I decided not to watch the videos anymore -still eat meat - someday i'll quit, maybe.
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