and what we feed our pets

Revealed: the secret horror of the world's 'mega' factory farms - news - The Ecologist

thats horrible

I would rather live in ignorance tbh, otherwise you would never step out your door or put food in my mouth again.

I am very lucky as the pork we get for free is from a local free range producer (we feed a herd of pigs for him near our house, we get paid in meat and the dogs get stuff all the time from him). I can atm afford to go to the butcher for cheap cuts but at least I knwo where the meat is coming from.

I would never buy tesco value meat for this reason. However in this climate I might have to at some point. Hate to say it, I am sure many people are aware (there is enought int he media about it, its no secret) but when you have yourself and kids to feed, food is food, and your pocket will on stretch so far.

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Doglets: Teal, Dylan and Buster

Ponies: Toffee, Samba and Jake

Guinea wiggles: Hector, Herbert and Humphrey

Fishes: Bess, Gerald, Barney and Claus

My meat is checked by DEFRA - therefore I don't need to check it.. just be sensible about it..

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I know exactly where everything that passes Tummels lips comes from, my OH is a butcher and the company he works for own their own chicken, lamb and beef farms(and buy in from local farmers) and all their pork comes from farms just up the road from them....all the animals in his shop are local, they also butcher carcasses for people and quite often Tummel gets bones from things like deer that have been shot and were taken in to be prepared.

My OH also goes shooting, i know the area's of permission he has and what animals came from where....i know the rabbits come from near the coast and the venison generally from the farm we live on.

I know a lot more about the meat Tummel gets than the stuff i eat....

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Owned by Tummel the rottaridgeador and Dante the Italian Spinone

That's why we only eat free range chicken and eggs but it is harder with meat as I can't afford the prices they charge sadly

I am not sure what the point of this post is?

It is hardly news.

At the end of the day we, the consumer, decide what we buy (nobody HAS to eat meat) for ourselves and our dogs.

It is also the consumer that drives these conditions by demanding cheap meat.

If you buy meat LESS frequently but BETTER quality then this would raise the standards of all.

Although I don't eat meat my OH does. If we are a bit skint one weekk he eats less meat as he would rather have a small piece of good quality meat than crap factory farmed rubbis every day.

The problem is that now people expect to have meat at every meal time & won't buy the cheaper cuts, it didn't used to be like this.