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Yesterday we butchered two pigs at home. It was brilliant

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HumphreyCobbler · 09/10/2010 10:38

We made sausages and salami. We had chops, tenderloin, ham, hocks,roasting joints - absolutely vast amounts of meat. We won't have to buy meat for at least six months.

We cure the bacon later and finish packing the sausages. The salami looks brilliant hanging in the shed.

I am so pleased Smile

We do it all again on Sunday, two more pigs are being slaughtered and we butcher them on Friday.

I feel Hugh FW would be very proud Grin

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fortyplus · 09/10/2010 19:44

I've had several old and much loved horses put down at home with a bolt gun. It's really horrid to be there but you literally hear bang-thud and the horse collapses immediately.

The piggies would be blissfully unaware that anything bad was going to happen. Transport to the slaughterhouse is stressful for any animal so HumphreyCobbler's animals are very lucky to have been killed at home.

SecretNutellaFix · 09/10/2010 19:44

Hecate- once again you said it perfectly!Grin

KatyMac · 09/10/2010 19:44

Oh can I ask how you make ham as my friend butchers her pigs and we want to make some ham......but neither of us know how & I'm a bit scared of googling to get a recipe in case it's no good (as it would be a waste)

HalfTermHero · 09/10/2010 19:45

Possibly what CSS means is that she finds it repulsive/abnormal that op seems to be revelling in, boasting about and enjoying the death of the pigs and how she chopped them up, etc. Only hazarding a guess though, lol Grin.

HalfTermHero · 09/10/2010 19:46

Oh and I am not even slightly militant, lol.

SecretNutellaFix · 09/10/2010 19:47

Where on earth does anyone get that HC is revelling in piggy murder?

I got the impression, very strongly, that she was revelling in the sense of achievement haveing reared these animals and now doing them justice so they can feed a family?

HalfTermHero · 09/10/2010 19:48

I think that is why CSS might have been using the term 'perverted', but it is only my guess!

CommonSenseSuze · 09/10/2010 19:50

"Yesterday we butchered two pigs at home. It was brilliant". This reads that you enjoyed killing pigs and chopping up their bodies. Absolutely perverted.

RumourOfAHurricane · 09/10/2010 19:51

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SecretNutellaFix · 09/10/2010 19:53

css- are you a militant veggie?

onepieceoflollipop · 09/10/2010 19:54

fwiw I think that HC has been very responsible and I found her account very enlightening.

I truly think that unless anyone here is vegetarian then you would be hard pushed to criticise her. (and perhaps if you are vegetarian you may like to post on other threads and give this one a miss!)

Lucky piggies with the barrel of apples for pudding. Grin

We tell our dds where meat comes from etc but tbh we buy most of ours from tesco. (most of it with the red tractor/free range). However I am under no illusions that some of those particular piggies etc didn't enjoy the life that HC's piggies did.

Thanks for posting. :)

PiaThreeTimes · 09/10/2010 19:55

I agree with CommonSenseSuze. It's absolutely not necessary to kill animals to eat them. To revel in doing this is perverted in my opinion too.

PiaThreeTimes · 09/10/2010 19:57

People may wish the veggies not to comment, but I would suggest that such a thread title is provocative.

RumourOfAHurricane · 09/10/2010 19:58

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PiaThreeTimes · 09/10/2010 19:59

And meateaters accept that many non-meateaters find it offensive to do so.

wastingaway · 09/10/2010 20:03

Pia, if one wants to eat the animals, it's better if they have been killed.

HalfTermHero · 09/10/2010 20:04

In fairness, the thread title is totally OTT. When it pops up in 'Active', people are going to click on it thinking 'WTF, is Freddie Krueger a fricking pork butcher now?!!

orienteerer · 09/10/2010 20:05
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SecretSquirrel193 · 09/10/2010 20:05

" PiaThreeTimes Sat 09-Oct-10 19:55:35

I agree with CommonSenseSuze. It's absolutely not necessary to kill animals to eat them. To revel in doing this is perverted in my opinion too."

Its more perverted to eat them alive. .Wink

SecretSquirrel193 · 09/10/2010 20:06

cross post with wastingaway LOL

MissBeehiving · 09/10/2010 20:07

HC is not "revelling" in killing the pigs - she's not engaging in ritualistic slaughter to get her rocks off, so that comment is totally unfair and unjustified.

wastingaway · 09/10/2010 20:08
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mittz · 09/10/2010 20:10

'' "Yesterday we butchered two pigs at home. It was brilliant". This reads that you enjoyed killing pigs and chopping up their bodies. Absolutely perverted. ''
I didn't read it all like that.

I didn't get a sense of any emotional gratification at the process in a perverted perspective, but from a sense of the process of turning livestock into a meal on the table.

She didn't describe with joy the blood and entrails, but the satisfaction of filling a larder by their own toil.

PiaThreeTimes · 09/10/2010 20:11

"It was brilliant" = I enjoyed it.

SecretNutellaFix · 09/10/2010 20:12

not necessarily true. One can acknowledge that a process if brilliant without liking it.