sainsbury's delivery service :Dyeah, me too .. they seem a bit complicated to cook tho so I always avoid em
One of my fave veggie (and diet) foods to cook is ratatouille. I normally do it in a fucking huge pot and freeze it in portions. I add loads of chick peas and chilli to it too, but I'd like to add aubergine but I never know how to cook it, since it's meant to be hard (and involves salt or something?), and you can't just dice it and throw it in apparently.
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that looks ace kenny. I fucking love aubergine and I love cheese.
I don't get this thing about fishing being cruel and livestock farming being fine. Free range farms may be better than factory farms but sometimes the actual differences really are pretty minimal. I think you said you knew the actual farm so that's different really, Raas. But, as Unka Bob pointed out, those animals still get sent off to the slaughterhouse which is hardly a nice way to go.
If you do visit the slaughterhouse though it will be very hard to come back still claiming moral high ground.
But surely fish that have lived completely free their whole lives before being killed (where death is not a certainty) is more ethical to eat than free range chicken for example, where the death rate is certain (usually at age 16 weeks) with an outdoor allowance of (minimum) 8 hours per day?
The actual method of killing free range animals is the same as factory bred animals, where they are shipped off to the slaughterhouse. Chickens are often tied onto a conveyor belt by their feet and have their throats cut. Cows usually have the bolt method used on them which is a lot quicker.
The problem with large industrial slaughterhouses (for instance, KFC), because of the many thousands of birds they kill each day, some don't get stunned properly, leaving them headed for the horror of being plucked alive and, if they survive it, in line to be washed in boiling waterThis kind of thing (to my knowledge) doesn't really happen in local free range farms.
Also, prior to death, industrialised chickens are "packaged" into creates. As the slaughterhouses are always very expedient in ethic, the chickens are crammed into the crates and will be held there for some time until slaughter.
I can taste the terror in birdseye dippers