'Being Gordon Ramsay' featuring dead pig!

I mean... I would eat a dog or cat...
I don't discriminate. 🤷

Agree, lost the argument right there.

I think you need to go and have a bit of a lie down @Queenjuliana! Dismissing meat eaters as psychopaths is just a little bit silly, don't you think?

Dear God, I cannot believe the amount of psychopaths on here that can't see what's wrong with this. Hopefully they'd feel just as comfortable seeing a newborn kitten or puppy being served up in the same manner. And I hope they don't get upset about the Yulin Festival. Otherwise it's pure speciesism. Just wait to hear all the "but it's different" excuses. It's not different at all for that animal. It's exactly the same. Breeding a baby so you can kill it as soon as it's born, how is that not evil?
Humans are so selfish, we really think we have the right to do these horrific things to animals because we have power over them. So arrogant.
Let's just hope all those thinking there's nothing wrong with this would be just as happy if they were in a country where eating dog meat was culturally accepted and it was served up whole in front of them. Or would have no problem going to a "dog" roast. If not, then they are total hypocrits as well as speciesist.
Take a walk up and down your local supermarket aisles. See how much food exists that doesn't involve dead animals. We don't NEED to exploit and kill animals when there are sooooo many other things we can eat. So if you don't need to, why would you? And don't dare call yourself an animal lover if you eat them..just don't.

I'd far rather people be accepting of what they are eating and pay proper prices for it than buy shitty water and chemical injected meat from supermarkets. If an animal is bred for meat then it doesn't really make much difference when it's slaughtered does it. The fact that a piglet is cuter than a pig shouldn't be part of the equation.

You seem to want people to be hypocrites OP.

Oh grow up.

So it’s ok to eat meat but not ok to see it whole?

Half a camel including head hanging in the butcher's window.
Lamb head soup... 🙈 (like lamb did not like the taste oddly. I think it's the non meat parts flavour)
Lamb head placed on top of dishes...

Have you not seen a hog roast. It’s literally a whole dead pig on a spit.

I think I saw the same post, and nearly half the bill was alcohol - five beers, several glasses of wine and a cocktail. There was also quite a lot of food, it sounded like quite the celebration!

I think what @paloma7 is desperately trying to let us all know, is that she doesn’t want to live in a multi-cultural society, because many cultures have traditions and practices which she finds abhorrent, and shouldn't be welcomed here. Strange that she worries that Muslims might be offended by a traditional Chinese (and European) practice. I assume she’s never seen a traditional Muslim whole goat served at big celebrations, or perhaps goats are lower on the pecking order than cute little piglets?

@Mumtobabyhavoc : But, no one needs to lecture about it......

:I also think not all things need to be eaten -- it's just gluttony.
:I do think we in the west over indulge in meat.
:just no to suckling pig.

Yet more lecturing, those are your options.
Your gluttony is someone else's normal.

Also, doesn't mean those who eat a particular thing, eat everything else.

I am genuinely trying to understand your perspective. But wouldn’t that apply to all meat? When we make a spectacle about tender veal? Dry aged beef? Delicious duck? Or when we have an iberico ham to slowly slice?

or even how some people simply salivate over bacon and making bacon memes. How is this any different? Except that you can’t forget the actual animal that had to pay in this case.

The veal Waitrose sells is British produced and it's rose veal, not the veal prized on the continent which is white. British veal is produced from male dairy calves who might live to twelve months old. If there was no market for their meat they would be slaughtered at birth because obviously only female calves can go on to produce milk. Would that be better?

Here's some information from a producer about this. https://alternativemeats.co.uk/product-category/british-beef-and-rose-veal-and-dairy-cow/british-rose-veal/

The vast majority of the meat you buy from a supermarket will be from a baby animal

Most chickens are slaughtered at 3-5 months.
Deer between 12-24 months.
Pigs before the age of 1.
Cows between 18-24 months.
Turkeys between 12-26 weeks.

I eat meat 2-3 times a week but I don't like eating baby animals, I get you, OP. I picked up what I thought was venison in Waitrose the other week and realised at the checkout that it was veal, so I put it back. There's a limit for me!

Other omnivorous and carnivorous animals would have no problem with eating a human baby. Pigs are known to eat human flesh. We’re omnivores, just with enough awareness to choose what we eat and when.

Animal husbandry is a hugely important life lesson; raising and caring for the thing which will sustain you, and being mindful of the circle. That’s what we’ve lost with factory farming and packaged meat which bears no resemblance to the original animal.

As a vegetarian, where do you stand on almond milk and avocados? Or do you just eat seasonal, British (assuming you are in Britain) produce?

I would hate it but as a vegan I only eat in vegan restaurants, sometimes a restaurant that serves vegetarian as well. I can’t stand Gordon Ramsay anyway. There are other ways to get good views over London.

I love suckling pig 🐷 it's the best! Of course there's going to be dead animals on a food show! 😂

Why can't you answer the question rather than continually referring back to a previous post. It wouldn't be because you...hmm.. can't answer without contradicting yourself now, could it?

I don't know why food preferences need to become a competition of morality. And the extreme examples given are ludicrous. 🤦‍♀️
Three are moral quandaries to all food production and consumption, aren't there 🤷‍♀️
FWIW just the term suckling pig makes me want to cry at the thought of eating it. I couldn't. I also think not all things need to be eaten -- it's just gluttony. I do think we in the west over indulge in meat (often poor quality), too and stats support that, I believe.
But, no one needs to lecture about it.
Personally, I don't eat pork, but do eat beef and bison occasionally, moose on rare opportunities and consume chicken, salmon prawns and crab regularly. We're all different.
i was pretty much vegetarian at one time and I think I could go that way again quite easily, I just honestly feel better when animal protein is in my diet. But, I've gone way off course here-- just no to suckling pig, Gordo. 😥

I couldn't get upset about the pig, but after seeing the prices I would be upset at £20 for egg fried rice and £16 for a bowl of broccoli!

👏👏👏.

Even the aphids, worms, beetles, caterpillars, snails etc that die for vegetables to be harvested don't seem to count to vegans.

I didn't like seeing it. When they put the flowers on it's eyes, it just reminded me of that fucked up Midsommar movie