Poor Lamb

[smurfchops]

OK so I eat meat but I also adore animals. I went into Tesco for my Sunday joint today, they had some leg of lamb on special offer. I started reading the label and saw 'Date Slaughtered' and 'Where butchered' .. Or words to that effect. I felt quite sick, so bought a chicken instead. Too much information ?

[jno]

I had a bag of crisps today (Tesco Finest) that told me what field they were grown in. Tesco in particular are desperate to show they know the source of all their food, after the horsemeat scandal.

[EcclesCake]

I think traceability is important so I would have been pleased to see that level of information on the labelling.

[Mamyalynne]

Did the chicken top itself?

[mallyh]

mamyalynne that 's got me chuckling

[Lie-in King]

It was probably crossing the road at the time...

[Mamyalynne]

Sorry, couldn't resist.

[factor-fiction]

I am making fish, chips and mushy peas for tea but have just noticed that the poor fish had been battered.

[Mamyalynne]

FF - Nooooooooooooo!! and you are going to eat it?


BTW the chicken should have sent the Lamb across first.

[Baldric]

It that^^^^ the C.O.D?............cause of death

[Mamyalynne]

Giggle!

[2sp_]

At least the lamb would have had a longer life, out in a field doing lamby things. Poor chook would have been much younger with a much rubbishier quality of life.

[Mamyalynne]

True, no wonder he ended it all.

[EcclesCake]

Shush, 2sp......you'll have me on my soap box about how crappily 'free range ' chicken is reared!

[2sp_]

I agree, Eccles.

I'd rather eat red meat that has had a lovely outdoors life that has been a decent length than poor chickens. I like using the local butchers as I know the farms the animals were reared on.

Saying that, I'll eat pretty much anything...

[hc4361]

2sp, young lamb is slaughtered between 6 and 8 weeks of age, spring lamb at 3 - 5 months.
Those lovely ickle lambs you see bouncing round in Feb/March never get to see a summer.

[2sp_]

hc4361, I can see 11 lambs from my window that are now coming up to 6 months old. Not ready for the pot quite yet.

I know that there are early lambs too, but there is also quite a few that don't get the chop until Christmas time.

[boxtops]

we can get very emotive about the bouncy lambs - we can't, they're a food commodity. That's one reason why the chicken you bought is packaged upside down in the shop, so it doesn't look like a chicken :-(

[ClaryS]

hc4631 have you ever seen a lamb that is 6 weeks old? well I could eat a whole one but there's no meat on them what an utter load of botox! My daughter number 2 is married to a farmer and he weans his lambs at around 6 months of age, the male ones going to the sales to be 'finished' -given an bit extra food before slaughter, the females go for breeding. Apparently they can breed the first year of their lives, like kittens I suppose.

[boxtops]

Someone's going to say now "but I couldn't eat a kitten....."

[EcclesCake]

A 6-8 wrk old lamb would be a snack and I don't know anyone who would send to slaughter at that tender age.

I prefer hogget myself.