LivDiv wrote:Weird thing is Easter isn't the best time to eat lamb, too early. Late summer going into autumn is better. Personally I'd happily eat more mutton if it was readily available. Not ideal for a roast but curries and stews it's absolutely fine.
poprock wrote:All Scottish beef (and dairy) herds are grass-fed. They all graze freely and wander about. Literally 100% of of them. To be fair, 87% of English beef is grazed/grass-fed too. But it’s 100% up here. It’s the imported stuff you want to avoid.
LivDiv wrote:Blame the supermarkets and big food manufacturers. They've taught us food needs to be identical every time it's bought.
Okay. I just spoke to my neighbour, who has a mix of dairy and beef herds across Central Scotland. You’re right about dairy being a problem. And that’s a relatively new development. It’s ‘big dairy’ taking the methods they’ve developed elsewhere in the world, in less regulated places, and dumping it on us here. Big sheds that exploit a loophole in the welfare regulations by having one open wall.SpaceGazelle wrote:For dairy that's not true.
Poultry’s a whole other headache. I know nothing about that one.GooberTheHat wrote:I don't know about beef, but that's not true for poultry.
poprock wrote:That looks amazing. Want.
poprock wrote:What’s more environmentally friendly is usually to do things in the ways that suit your local geography and climate, instead of shoehorning animals or plants into places or methods they don’t fit. Like free-grazing cattle and sheep work perfectly well in Scotland and Wales. Carbon neutral if you consider the full lifecycle of the animals and land. Land which simply isn’t suited to other farming methods because it’s hilly and it floods often. But the same approach would be a fucking stupid idea in the Texan desert, for example.
b0r1s wrote:Crispy chilli beef with egg fried rice. Stuffed.
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