'Being Gordon Ramsay' featuring dead pig!

[paloma7]

Ffs! I'm just watching this Netflix show about Gordon Ramsay and his opening of a new restaurant with amazing views in the city. I'm not interested in him particularly, but thought I might go to this 'Lucky Cat' just for the views over London, if and whenever it opens.

BUT - then there is a scene where he is consulting with his head chef about the menu and there is a whole dead baby suckling pig on a plate. They are talking about making this a restaurant feature, requiring two chefs who carve it at your table.

AIBU to think this is obscene? Yes, I'm vegetarian, but I think even most meat eaters would balk at this?

If I were in his restaurant and that was going at the the next table, I would leave. Wtf is wrong with humans?

Uncontrollable global warming, ocean collapse, and deforestation will tell you otherwise.

Meat eaters would rather die than save our only habitable planet.

Dorado is also called mahi mahi, @faerylights ... maybe you've heard of iy by that name?

Ooh I have, thank you!

No one said that. You are the metaphorical pigeon shitting on a chess board.

Okay love, whatever you say, I'm bored of irritating you now 😂

Yep shark is used here in Australia and is known as flake. Quite nice too.

Youbcan buy frozen in many halal butchers. As well as lamb testicles

Oh, now you’re pretending to be offended to avoid the point.

Unawareness of mortality is no justification for causing an individual harm.

If we ever decide to breed human babies for food, will killing them suddenly become acceptable?

Kangaroo is lovely. I agree.

I definitely read this as "you can buy frozen human brain" at first 😂

I used to love "rock salmon" from the chippy, I think that was a variety of shark.
It had one central gelatinous bone, so easy to eat & delicious.

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Do you really see no moral difference between cannibalism and eating meat from a different species?

Why not, if they're lab bred and raised specifically for that purpose?

Pigs raised for slaughter only exist because we decided to keep them here as a species - they wouldn't be frolicking around a field living a happy life otherwise, they'd never exist to begin with.

Of course a human being is not a cow or pig. But nevertheless. we are all mammals, with flesh and warm blood and complex nervous systems and therefore will experience physical pain in a similar way. Animals are also highly attuned to be able to sense and feel fear. How do you know animals don't sense fear before their slaughter. They almost certainly do. Do you really think a mother pig or cow just doesn't notice if her piglet or calf is removed? Ever seen a cow mourning her calf? The way people deny animals sentience to justify using them as commodities is too depressing.

Which is irrelevant
this concept of appreciation of one’s mortality as justification here is absurd

Restaurants in the Far East where you pick your fish whilst it's swimming and the staff net it and cook it. That's the deal with eating meat/fish. The pig will be dead anyway. And the good news is going to the restaurant is an option.

So if you’re bothered by a pig why not by a prawn or a lobster? I hate seeing lobsters in tanks waiting to be picked. At least the pig’s dead already.

Ostrich and kangaroo both in our Morrisons.

Also get ostrich when the continental market rolls in. A place by the coast here used to do crocodile steaks.

Boar is another good one. Got a friend who’s promised me some squirrels this year.

Surprisingly though not too keen on goat or maybe I just didn’t use a good recipe.

I live in the country and see and experience all this stuff everyday - nothing you're saying is news to me and none of it puts me off eating meat.

If you apparently care so much about animals feelings, why are you still eating cheese and drinking milk?

Goat can be a bit chewy I find, has to be cooked properly.

You used to be able to get squirrel meat in Londis of all places, not sure if that's still a thing though!

I must watch this programme.
My SIL met G.R. in a professional capacity, & described him as a sweetie in real life & nothing like his TV persona.

I'm a meat eater and I don't disagree, I'd hate seeing this too. I hate seeing hog roasts too. But people love them and are perfectly happy seeing the pigs head on platters when it's being served out

Now Londis is a surprise.

My bad - it wasn't Londis, it was Budgens! Just had a google of it.