'Being Gordon Ramsay' featuring dead pig!

There's a very simple solution to all of that. DON'T GO there. Job done.

I'm from Central Europe and participated in my first slaughtering of a pig when I was 5. Well, more like 'observed' than actually participated. Paternal grandparents had a farm: pigs, horses, chickens and other animals. The pig was slaughtered, then divided up. There was a party afterwards. Saw the whole thing. Happily eat the meat to this day. It's a pig. Bred to be killed and eaten. What's with the damn angst.

And yes, we also do hog roasts, pig's head, sheep's head on the table and the like. What's the issue here?

Love Gordon; been to his other Lucky Cat and will visit this one on a special occasion. Might order the piggy in OP's honour!

I'm a committed omnivore with no plans to ever stop eating meat, but I have to admit that I wouldn't want to see the whole dead animal on my table. I can just not look if it's on the next table over, but I'd rather not have it inches from my face while I'm eating (though I doubt it would stop me from enjoying my meal, even if it were right there on my own table).

It’s not about whether it’s dead. It’s about making a public display of a body for entertainment, not just consumption. There’s a difference between eating meat and staging a performance around a corpse.

Sounds absolutely delicious but I agree poor baby piglet. The presentation looks disconcerting.

If animals are killed for food it is a good thing that nothing is wasted.
I wish we had higher standards in abbatoirs though. All animals should be stunned and stunned effectively.

Hardly the target audience.

It wouldn’t bother me.

https://youtube.com/shorts/20VUpyE3ITY?si=mVM1OD-C3SWg172W

I kind of get what you’re saying, OP. I’m a former vegetarian and I don’t eat baby animals. But culturally, this isn’t particularly unusual.

We all have things we won't eat. I won't eat octopus as I like them too much.
I will eat chickens as i think they are stupid.
I will also eat cows as they are large and many.
I won't eat offal. I will eat legs.
I went to a bbq once and they had suckling pigs roasting ona spit. It doesnt really make me feel anything as a meat eater, but I do orefer my meat packaged
However I dont think we can be alive without causing some destruction. Even vegans are indirectly killing animals with the land clearance for produce.

Why would anyone care what a total stranger thinks about them, though?

My opinion on slaughterhouses aside - I have no idea who you are, so of course your opinion about me is meaningless 😂

Why is it sadistic? It's already dead.

The only bit of a pig you can't eat is the "oink".

No, I guess people that don't give a shit about cruelty in abbatoirs wouldn't care what anyone thinks of them, silly me 🙄

But we do that already - it's just they reach that age and size very quickly. Older pigs are too fatty to provide much edible meat.

See I think meat eaters SHOULD be absolutely brutally clear on what their meat actually is. I love meat, we shoot and I pluck/skin and butcher our own game. I use as much of the animal as I possibly can, I appreciate it and I respect it. I am VERY fussy about the meat we eat - it’s local, free range and ideally direct from the farmers. Definitely British. I would rather starve forever than eat cheap Tesco bacon from some country with shite welfare laws.
a suckling pin is seen as a celebration - it’s showing respect to the animal. And it should be seen as an animal, far too many people associate meat with plastic packets.

Personally, as a meat eater I’d find this preferable to picking up some plastic packaged meat from goodness knows where on a supermarket shelf. I’d rather have the connection with what I eat. I’d rather my children know too and if on the back of that connection they decide to become vegetarian then that is a choice I would support. I think as a modern society we’re too disconnected from where our food comes from. We’re lucky to have a couple of great butchers in our area and so seeing whole animals is fairly common but again for me is an important link for us to make.

I mean chickens a fox would kill all in a field in one night.

Pigs will eat each other while alive if they cannot find other food.

Sheep again would be food for foxes and are frankly stupid they are basically always trying to kill themselves. By falling over, head stuck in a fence and so on.

Cows maybe have the best odds.

I would agree with OP that I would never pass judgement on what somebody chooses to consume, but to make a spectacle of a carcass is almost sadistic. Needlessly cruel and very distasteful.

Most of the animals we eat in the U.K. if they were in the wild would not have a very long lifespan at all.

People are being bused in as a local delicacy?? Do they serve them whole on a plate with flowers in their eyes.. is the question I am asking.. because I think I would avoid this restaurant.

I would say as close to what would be their natural lifespan as possible without being, like you say, inedible. I mean we have a concept of what is a good lifespan for a pet so why not for pigs which are just as intelligent as dogs in many ways.

Oh well. Luckily most people aren't too fussed about what random strangers think of them.

I think its good that you're being made aware of it,OP, because you can then make a educated decision to avoid the restaurant. Conversely, as a dedicated carnivore, I can actively choose to go there and order the sucking pig. Ive had it before, it's delicious.