Comments on: Grilled Milk-Fed Veal Chops

By: emsy

emsy — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:12:14 +0000

reading this whole thing is making me feel like a cold blooded, meat eating human. I only really have one boundary in meat, and it’s pretty simple, too. I will not eat endangered species and their eggs…offspring…whatever. the only rationale is, if they cannot reproduce quick enough to supply the demand, then it only means that those animals should not be eaten. why eat meat from something that produces one offspring every year or every other year?

everything else, I treat as food. And I never feel great guilt over eating, cooking and slauthering what used to be living things. If I ever buy “ethically slaughtered” or free range, organic produce and meat, it’s because either they taste better or they’re healthier (lesser fat or little to no preservatives and without antibiotics).

I think of it as a cycle of life (enter Lion King soundtrack). Yes, I eat meat and seafood but later on when I’m pushing up daisies and wild grass, I will eventually be eaten by the same things I ate.

By: John

John — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:24:29 +0000

To my HUMANE hunter friend.
When you hunt a cow who has a newborn weanling calf or a bird who has newly hatched chicks in the nest, Do you think that those little helpless babies will starve to death without their mother feeding them ? Where is your humane(ity) in this ?
My friend you are as humane as Al Gore is environmentalist.

By: kurzhaar

kurzhaar — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:49:45 +0000

I stand corrected by a veterinarian friend in Sussex, who told me that you can with some effort still buy “white” veal in England (it takes some searching), but this is meat imported from the continent as its production is banned in the UK. The UK’s rules require more space per calf than in the rest of Europe, require feeding more forage (not just formula) and more iron, and ban tethering and slatted floors (uncomfortable for the animal). The EU rules prohibiting certain veal producing practises were passed a couple of years ago but it seems it is up to each member country to implement them (and some are slower than the rest). Also, humanely raised veal is getting a lot easier to find, you can buy it at the local Tesco or Marks & Sparks nowadays.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:50:50 +0000

Hi everyone. I am not ignoring this thread, I have just been extremely busy with house guests, board meetings and the like. I will have a separate post to address some of the issues raised. So hold on until I get to that post. Meanwhile, I will have to polish off any remaining beluga caviar from Iran… post on THAT in a week or two. :)

By: Apicio

Apicio — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:23:37 +0000

Market Manila as I gather from comments I have read over its life has attracted an astonishingly sophisticated group of people with fairly diverse interests. It has welcomed varied points of view and varying depths of thoughtfulness. Any reader can indulge oneâ€™s taste and engage oneâ€™s interest to the precise level of his or her own desired participation. As long as the comment appears not intent on offending or wounding, nobody is really compelled to read through any of it. No need to be snide at all, just step around any annoying entry for heavenâ€™s sake and let the postâ€™s natural half-life (from initial posting to eventual archiving) deal with it and letâ€™s leave it to MM to lop off any abusive and unhinge comments that may require pruning. It seems to me as clear-cut as that.