Did anyone else watch KILL IT, COOK IT, EAT IT?

[pucca]

Anyone else watch this, i saw it was coming on after Eastenders and really did not want to watch it but couldn't help it, god it was awful.I kept turning over then going back to it, as i was curious as to how they slaughter animals.

They had set up a slaughterhouse in a studio and slaughtered 7 kid goats, then a butcher took over to cut it up and then a chef who then cooked it for a audience to eat.

Apparently it is on every night this week at 10.30pm on bbc3, tomorrow it is veal

It was vile!

Yep it was pig last night. I told the kids they can stay up and watch it or go to bed. They stopped up my dss was a bit full of bravado about it but the twins were horrified, I think it's been a very good programme people need to know where their food is coming from. I was brought up in a rural/fishing area, my dad was a butcher and my mother wouldn't think twice about gutting a fish! Now I live in a city and the people haven't a clue! It's what happens EVERY day to the animals you eat, not vile just honest

I worked in an agricultural college in the Caribbean years ago. Every so often they had to slaughter an animal, it was usually pigs. Lets say everyone knew when it was going on. I have seen chickens slaughtered by our next door neigbours when I was little.

The only thing i have killed, cooked, (cleaned) and eaten myself is fish and other marine animals.

Tbh i found it vile

I also always thought that when they stun the animal it was by electirc shock type of thing, i didn't realise how they actually stun them

I am a major softy when it comes to ANY animal so found it quite difficult to deal with the emotion that came over me.

Burpyernie...I will probably have nightmares about it as a adult, god knows how i would have felt as a kid watching that.

I don't have happy memories witnessing the slaughter of large animals incl. the chickens. To be honest, thinking about it gives me vegetarian moments. I would go veggie but dh is all about it.

Kiskidee....It certainly gave me a veggie moment, but as daft as it sounds i do enjoy eating meat, but i know i could not do that job for all the money in the world, and if it came to it that i had to kill anything myself well no way!

I soothe my conscience by buying free range and organic meats where possible since I can't see dh going veggie. I also almost never throw out meat leftovers.

The book Fast Food Nation is a bit of a fast track to going veggie or if not, to never east Fast Food. It gives detailed descriptions (chapters) about the rearing, killing and meat preparation of the major domesticated animals.

Pucca I DID see that as a kid - with chickens and lobsters and fish - the kids were old enough to know where their food comer from (they are 14 and 10 - they baby was in bed but she did help my mother with the lobsters at christmas), the Twins have now decided to become vegies. I hope they stick to it and it's not just something they will forget. That's why I let them watch it