'Being Gordon Ramsay' featuring dead pig!

It doesn't bother a lot of people. I am aware of that. Just find that very sad.
I live rurally too btw.

Good question. Of course crops grown for vegan products, such as soy, will naturally have an impact on the environment. However soy is a common animal feed for cows. Feeding it to cows requires significantly more land, water, and energy to produce the same amount of protein, as most calories are lost during the animal's metabolism.

It is significantly more efficient to eat soy directly. Livestock act as a "middleman" that loses most of the energy from the plant; it takes roughly 25 kg of grain to produce just 1 kg of beef. By consuming soy ourselves, we bypass the metabolic heat and waste produced by animals, allowing the same land to feed many more people.

As for avocados, I agree that flying in exotic fruits has an environmental impact. One can use discretion and eschew purchasing air mile heavy fruit and veg at the same time as eating compassionately.

Very normal in a restaurant near Lousa in Portugal that we went to with people being bused in from local villages. Local delicacy.

Why?

The thread is about the grotesque (in my view) spectacle of a baby pig, its eyes stuffed with flowers, in a restaurant because to many people - including meat eaters - this is totally unnecessary and repugnant.

Except many of us don't find it repugnant or grotesque in the slightest. Unnecessary, sure, but lots of things in life are unnecessary.

Don’t got to Edinburgh OP there are a few shops called Oink that have roasted whole hogs in the windows.

Absolutely agree. It’s abhorrent.

Nobody is forcing you to eat it op.

Nobody is forcing you to go to a restaurant that serves it.

Don’t like it don’t go. It’s just food at the end of the day. A dead pig served up as food. It’s that simple.

Now where is that laughing react 🤣🤣

Yep. I've seen plenty of videos of abbatoirs and slaughterhouses. I also live rurally where it's very normal to see the trucks coming to collect the animals for slaughter. Many people here also kill and eat their own meat.

None of it bothers me.

Looked yummy, I'd order it. Delish

With all this talk of eating humans, does anyone else remember Greg Wallace's spoof documentary "Miracle Meat"?
Quite cleverly done ...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/culture/article/20230727-the-hoax-documentary-about-human-flesh-eating-that-shocked-the-uk

What about the impact of many vegan foods on the environment? Soy beans, for example? Or foods like avocado which are flown thousands of miles everyday for us to eat?

At least its not as bad as the David Cameron one.

But the pig is already dead when you see it, not slaughtered in front of you.

We all know how animals are slaughtered, but do most people really think deeply about what actually happens within an abbatoir.
A friend of mine worked in the offices of an abbatoir when she was younger and had to leave because of what she saw. The pigs were so distressed when being unloaded from the trucks, not to mention being kicked and treated appallingly before they even got inside. Some had heart attacks and died as they were so distressed. She never saw the actual slaughter, but what she did see was enough to stop her eating meat.

I am also a vegetarian and yes it must have to horrible to see but realistically in a food programme you are likely to see meat.
On watching the news tonight , it was all about over fishing of Mackerel and shows hundreds of thousands dead fish , it was horrible to see but I would come on here to make a post of it , no .
There are good things and bad things on t.v. , don't watch it if it upsets you .

Eating animals is depraved. I know it is socially acceptable but lots of cruel unnecessary things were once accepted.

We are not apex predators so I have never understood the use of 'carnivore' for those who bravely visit the local supermarket to purchase chopped up body parts of a poor animal chilled and packed in a fridge, when the term necrovore is more accurate.

There are also compelling environmental reasons for a plant based diet.

YABU

That did used to happen (except the killed humanely part). Still does occasionally. Many animals, including humans, eat meat and they kill to get it. We don't get killed by other animals much nowadays because we've developed ways to defend ourselves (like urbanization, but also killing off predators). There's generally nothing immoral about a meat eating animal killing another animal to eat. It's the cycle of life that we have evolved to be a part of.

Well I’m glad to hear that happened back in the dark ages then

so glad we are more understanding of everyone these days

Meat eaters need to address all the horrors of the Industry

vegans and non meat eaters would rather they were all extinct. For that matter if they could speak so would they

How the hell do you know that? 😂 Do you speak pig?

I don't have or want children FWIW. Can't understand why anyone would want to be a parent.

The only people who care that they exist is the ones that want to eat them

As a previous post if you RTT
vegans and non meat eaters would rather they were all extinct. For that matter if they could speak so would they

Would you want to bread your own babies for people to prance them through a restaurant after being slaughtered.

Lucky Cat is GR’s Asian brand.

Whole suckling pigs are common in Chinese restaurants and are seen roasting or hanging on spits in nearly every restaurant window in Soho.