It's my annual treat!
I'm actually pescatarian in that I eat oily fish and
some shellfish; however I will quite happily eat 'straight' meat
if I know who it comes from and where/how it's been slaughtered, but it gets a bit complex explaining that bit of it, can too easily lead to arguments when that was not my intention at all, and I've only ever met, in person, one person who has a similar concept; they were a high-welfare pig farmer with their own slaughtering and butchering facilities, and so it was a bit (a lot!) easier for them ... so to all intents and purposes I am vegetarian. Much easier to 'explain' in social situations, in fact needs very little explanation at all nowadays and usually - but not always! - works wherever one is in the world.
If I could keep poultry again I'd happily eat that, as I used to.
It's not the eating of meat I'm opposed to but its (often) means of production and the (huge - greatly increased since larger abbattoirs became 'the norm') levels of stress associated with the process of slaughter - mostly, to be frank, in the process leading up to the slaughter, rather than the actual death-dealing itself.
So - I'm having Cowman's sausages for Christmas dinner and I have a salmon steak in the freezer which I'll eat some time between Christmas and New Year. I'm not entirely happy with industrially-farmed fish, again it's the handling immediately pre-death which concerns me; the
Humane Slaughter Association (of which I am a supporter) has done some excellent work there - although there's still a long way to go.
- Correct ONLY kid at nearly 52 - my siblings are boring....
