Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is
a star. I watch him on the telly. Brilliant. What a character.
Our son likes to cook and because of my groans of
supermarkets he now supports me in buying meat and veg. locally, so I`ve
purchased Hugh`s book on Meat for a Xmas pressie for him, so I can read it as
well.
He was on telly recently with another chef who
is a veggie but misses meat and wanted to be convinced that small farms reared
their animals caringly and slaughter was quick and humane.
So, the veggie chef ( who had tears in his eyes through most
of it) went to a farm, selected an animal for slaughter and travelled with it to
one of the few small slaughterhouses an hours drive from the farm. Watched
it bedded down for the night and then, first thing in the morning watched the
whole slaughtering process. I didn't know whether I could watch that bit
but was pleased that I did as I`ve always wondered how these people like
Alan and Rosie can get to really know these animals, send them off to be
killed and then eat them.
However, you saw the whole process. Believe me, it was all so
quick and humane the animal didn't know a thing.