Home made beef burgers,made with steak mince.
Now we begin the final
countdown,exactly one week today my son will have ,a long last parted
company with what I can only describe as a company with a death wish!
He is , to all intents
and purposes jumping ship before its inept bridge crew steer it on to
the rocks,an event as certain as the sunrise.
I have my own reasons
for wishing him far away from his present environment,I am actually
itching for him to be gone!Those reasons must,for now be entirely my
own.
My siege which the
latest plague is, I hope nearing its end for although I slept ,not at
all, the morning found me lest incline to cough and to sneeze my
brain in to the next Parish!
Our two cats are,while
not exactly matey becoming accustomed to each others presence and
peace reigns once more. Apart from the occasional bout of swearing
the two seem to have accepted the inevitable......now we will wait
and see what happens when the expected kittens arrive.
I feel obliged to
comment upon the current problems in the meat industry, having found
the news shocking but not surprising in the least. Much has been said
and blame laid in all directions,my views on supermarket meat is well
known to regular readers,so I will simply say this,
The consumer has been
lead by the large supermarket chains, to expect to be able to buy
cheap meat. Governments too have encouraged this attitude to food.
In the past livestock
has suffered horribly as proper farming practice has gone buy the
board in order to increase yield and speed up production.
Farmers and growers
have suffered ,being forces to cut prices to the bone until in some
cases the animals they sell have cost more to feed than the farmers
is paid for supplying them.
Cheap meat does not
really exist, cheap mince consists of..as well as horse I
mean...veins and arteries,connective tissue,cartilage and fat minced
finely and sold as meat, which it patently is not.
It is not nutritious
and the money spent on these(Value?) products is wasted. We are all
being cheated, the poorest of us most of all. Most of these so called
value products are exactly the reverse,but how are people to know
this when home economics and domestic science are no longer taught
in schools,they have been replaced by something called Life Skills.
What the hell are those? Isn’t b having the ability to fed your
family a nutritious diet on a budget a life skill,one that both boys
and girls should be taught.
These days the only
budget people know about is the Chancellor of the exchequers
occasional fiddle with the countries economy,often to no good
purpose.
If consumers refused to
purchase the mass produced, factory farmed meat the super markets and
their dodgy supply chains would be in total disarray within days.
No one, particularly
the less well of, for whom every penny counts deserve to be cheated
by the giant chain groceries. We pay the piper and now it's time we
called the tune, buy less meat but buy better quality,leave the
factory farmed pork and chickens which have spent their entire lives
having their feet and legs burnt buy standing in their own
filth....very wholesome!
I know this sounds hard
but its really not that difficult,we need to do this for all our
sakes
not least the animals
in question.
Meat is not the only
source of protein and freshly cooked food will always be more
nutritious that the over salted,over sugared,over packaged horse meat
peddled by the supermarkets.
Find a small butcher
and give him your support,he will give you honest advice about how to
cook the cheaper cuts of meat,after all , he has a reputation to
consider in his community. Please give it a try.
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