I'’m not giving up my Sunday roast! (From Worcester News)
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I'’m not giving up my Sunday roast!
8:10am Thursday 10th June 2010 in Read
SIR – Pauline Burgess (Letters, June 4) criticises our livestock farmers with her attack on the Open Farm Sunday events held in May.
Her objection to rearing farm animals comes perhaps more from a desire to impose a vegan diet on us all than improving animal welfare.
Before denigrating British farmers Ms Burgess would do better to insist that any meat, poultry and dairy imports are produced to our exacting standards of welfare and hygiene.
This country has the highest standards of farm animal welfare in the world. Livestock markets and transport are overseen by trading standards officers and independently checked by RSPCA inspectors. Abattoirs are monitored by both the animal health and food standards agencies. The health, welfare, bio-security and traceability of farm animals is paramount to the retailer and consumer. British farmers, overseen by the Government, are delivering this on demand.
If you enjoy the vegan lifestyle then carry on, but please don’t insist that the rest of us have to do without the occasional Sunday roast.
Jon Burgess
Malvern
Comments(9)
Hymie
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10:30am Thu 10 Jun 10
Pauline Burgess in her letter never mentioned Sunday roast. Or that she wanted to force anything on anyone!
She sets out letter in as concise way as a possible and suggest readers may want to do some investative research themselves and points a way.
Clearly by your reaction Pauline has hit a raw nerve which needs you to misquote her letter rather than to try and defend animal husbandry.
Although inspectors are in slaughterhouses checking carcasses, in order to keep up weight, many cancerious growths will remain for eventual consumption by the public.
Suggesting alternative diet to omnivores I would liken to proposing to a drug addict that they should change to a drug-free way of living -been under the inflluencs of the substance blinds their objectivity.
Dereck
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12:35pm Thu 10 Jun 10
MJI
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1:37pm Thu 10 Jun 10
Cromwell of Worcester
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4:44pm Thu 10 Jun 10
Dereck
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5:17pm Thu 10 Jun 10
Who are you hoping to fool?
Making money comes before care for livestock or providing good food.
Water for feeding the animals to produce meat is 3x higher than needed to grow crops. In a world of climate change, brought on by global warming, water for mankind is already in short supply. As soon as the end of June we may have warnings then rationing of water here in the UK. The burying of heads in the sand is stupidity. The UN with all available information to hand takes the view that veganism is the way forward. Who has contrary facts to rubbish this UN report?
Dereck
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5:21pm Thu 10 Jun 10
PAT TINTON
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8:33am Sun 13 Jun 10
Cromwell of Worcester wrote:Be very careful Cromwell. Some people take criticism very hard.. Well done!!!!!
Just thought Id ask a polite question . Halal meat any ideas on this one .Sorry to ask.
Hymie
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9:15pm Wed 23 Jun 10
Jon has a short memory. He forgets the fact that many countries banned British beef (cow) imports because of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). The lingering effects of this are killing people not only now but for many years to come. Even vegans, because beef byproducts where used to clarify beer, have been infected.
Tulstar says...
8:27am Thu 10 Jun 10