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RichardW
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RichardW
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RichardW
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RichardW
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judith
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moonwind
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| Rob R wrote: |
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You are lucky to have one nearby, down this neck of the woods they have all succumbed to a handful of the big commercial ones, any smaller ones have a huge waiting list too.
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That is true. We are very lucky, being within a few miles of a licensed abattoir that can also butcher on site, who also was big enough/able to expand facilities to accomodate the new regulations. It has put quite a few restrictions on me to use them, but I think it is a case of use it or lose it. Even the small abattoirs are commercial businesses facing the same pressures, so it is certainly worth paying them more for a job well done. Unfortunately many of my forebearers did not have that insight, which has led to us losing many in this country.
It can be a bit of a postcode lottery with abattoir provision & it should be the first thing you think about before rearing meat animals, as you absolutely need to be sure of where your animal is going from the start, as you don't want to be left high & dry at the end. |
Couldn't agree more, Rob. I wish there were a handful of people prepared to pick up the niche of small, as I reckon there will be a future in it because there are enough people now trying to source food more locally to them, and therefore naturally more easily traceable if the need even arose.
Personally we are the wrong side of 30 to think about it, which leaves us frustrated when you want to be sure you are eating the animal you reared and that it did not go through unecessary stress
which affects the carcass as you will be aware of yourself, and then butchered poorly and probably not even the same animal returned to you! (Not that I am in the least cynical you understand  )
I can see good and bad on both sides, but no clear solution.
Rebel against bad law quite happily, but am not dumb enough not to realise that there should not be a complete open licence for home killing.
There are some who .... "enough said"  ... |
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moonwind
Joined: 10 Sep 2006
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If I wanted the piggie for the freezer then I would just have it.
I wouldn't buy it of course, because I might be breaking some very strange regulation and heaven forbid I may fall over and graze my knee.
I would however, give a volunatry donation to the person who owns the piggie.
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Sorry but thats still illegal. The offence is to supply or offer to supply (so a freezer full of meat packed /labeled / priced would be included). A sale takes place even without money / goods changing hands.
Been looking into this in a BIG way as our nearest slaughter house involes a 280 mile trip (70 miles each way & you have to go twice). We take to the slaughter house animals for selling for meat & kill our own. But we have to use sepperate premises & freezers to comply with the rules.
We have looked into setting up as a micro slaughter house but the rules are just to costly to comply with on a small scale.
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Hi Justme (well justyou!!)
Maybe Downsizers should start forming a few regional lobby groups to lobby Government (including our own Welsh Assembly) to give Grant Aid for people such as yourself to assist them rather than work against them.
You see what gets me is that the Government say that they want the planet we share to be cared for and we should care about the environment and recycle etc etc., yet when it comes to supporting the downsizing of food sources properly, i.e helping small abbatoirs set-up to provide a sustainable local future with happier and healthier, good quality meat (in this case), less food miles associated with the production of it, they are NOT helping, and that makes me suspicious of just how much Government (apart from electioneering) really do give a damn about the Environment.
You can look at it with the recycling message too, recycling should be freely picked up, because at present LA's are making good money from our waste.
It is a good thing, but if their preference is profit or care I am yet to be convinced !
I digress, have you written to your MP, AM or Eurocrat for your area and asked them if there are any grants for your business proposals.
It would be good to see some motivated people lobbying for downsize issues like these.
They only have to look at how many members this site has to be shown there are plenty of people (and growing in number) that are very interested in sustainable living. Living that is friendlier to the planet we live on.
Maybe the Western Mail would do an article on it, they usually take up good local issues. |
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