Re: Slaughter and Sausage Making

[Guest guest]

>This is a great site (with graphic pics) on animal slaughter and

>sausage making in Romania. There's not much detail on the sausage

>recipes, but the pics are great.

OK, I have to make one comment ... the steer I've seen slaughtered

NEVER suffered so much. One second they were looking

for a handout, the next they were unconscious. Tho I appreciate

the honesty of the site, and I think it's great people learn

these things, there are two issues:

1. as a soft-hearted liberal human being, I prefer animals not to suffer or

fear.

2. the less animals suffer or fear, the better they taste!

People often complain of a " gamey " taste to grass fed animals,

and that is often due to high adrenalin content in the meat.

I don't want to go into too much detail for the sake of the squeamish

(are there any squemish on this list left?) but their choice of slaughter

methods isn't the best.

Heidi Jean

[Guest guest]

Thanks for your input, Heidi. As a city girl, I've never seen a

slaughter before, so I had no idea that it could be done in a more

humane way than pictured on the site (these were the first pics of a

slaughter I've ever seen and I looked at them VERY briefly as I am of

the same stripe as you!) I was actually more interested in the

sausage making pics (no killing and I make sausage now).

I'm not squeamish and it would be educational for me to know what

slaughter methods IYO are the most humane. Isn't there a book by a

Temple ??? about this? Or is it just about her experience with

autism?

TIA,

[Guest guest]

>I'm not squeamish and it would be educational for me to know what

>slaughter methods IYO are the most humane. Isn't there a book by a

>Temple ??? about this? Or is it just about her experience with

>autism?

>

>TIA,

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>

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Dr. Temple Grandin is THE leading expert on livestock handling these

days. And yes, she has autism.

http://www.grandin.com/

Deanna

[Guest guest]

Wow, there's a lot of information on that page. Thanks, Deanna.

> Dr. Temple Grandin is THE leading expert on livestock handling these

> days. And yes, she has autism.

>

> http://www.grandin.com/

>

> Deanna

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