Donkey, goat and water buffalo

Ray · 2013-02-27T10:38:54+00:00

If you eat meat, and in particular, processed meat, then you have been eating donkey, goat and water buffalo. How does that make you feel? Me? I don’t worry too much because I am trying to eat no farmed meat. I’m not getting it right but my guess is that donkey, goat and water buffalo isnt farmed the way the poor other domestic animals are. But anyway, I have always suspected that there is all sorts of stuff in polonies and sausages and stuff. I don’t know where they get water buffalo and I cant say I remember eating it. The other two , yes. But don’t know about water buffalo. What really tickles me about this is that it took over from the Oscar Pistorius thing as the main headline on the wireless news. I guess they’ve ripped the ring out of the chicken with the OP thing so much it’s starting to lose it’s glamor value so they head for a different kind of shock to outrage the public. I don’t know if this will sell as well as a killing though.

Ray

Well, for me the important thing is to know how the animal lived and died. I dont much care what the heck it is.

flatfourfan

X-rated Bob wrote
Yes, if you buy from a butcher who has carcasses hanging in the store, who cuts from a carcass whilst you're in the store and then butchers the meat in front of you then you're almost certainlly getting the meat that you asked for.

Bingo.........

My butcher has had the same supplier for the last 40 years and they ONLY deal in complete carcasses. I honestly don't know why people even buy meat from a supermarket when it's a HECK of a lot cheaper buying it from a good butcher.

Gorgeous Ribeye steak.........R59-99p/kg, cut and trimmed while you wait.

Ray wrote Well, for me the important thing is to know how the animal lived and died. I dont much care what the heck it is.

really?..........what was the last meal containing meat that you ate and where did it come from?

Bob-Dubery

We can link this thread to the Oscar Pistorius thread with the old lawyer's joke about the law and sausages: You might like them, but you don't want to see them being made.

babbalute

flatfourfan wrote
X-rated Bob wrote
Yes, if you buy from a butcher who has carcasses hanging in the store, who cuts from a carcass whilst you're in the store and then butchers the meat in front of you then you're almost certainlly getting the meat that you asked for.
Bingo.........

My butcher has had the same supplier for the last 40 years and they ONLY deal in complete carcasses. I honestly don't know why people even buy meat from a supermarket when it's a HECK of a lot cheaper buying it from a good butcher.

Gorgeous Ribeye steak.........R59-99p/kg, cut and trimmed while you wait.

Ray wrote Well, for me the important thing is to know how the animal lived and died. I dont much care what the heck it is.
really?..........what was the last meal containing meat that you ate and where did it come from?

I wonder if this butcher can produce any certificate qualifying the meat being free from any drugs, medicines, dips.... etc that are not supposed be present in the meat. We all know that SA meat contains lot of antobiotics. This causes the meat to retain lots of water. You can see if it antibiotics when you cook your nice juicy steak in a pan or on the braai. If it shrinks in size and the pan contains a lot of "juice" then you know. The butcher is not qualified nor does he have the recourses to check the meat for any "foreign" constituent. One needs test kits and in many cases a laboratory setup for this. None of the suppliers of meat(the farmers etc) do any decent meat testing to qualify thier meat. And do not think that Woolworths does this aswell on abig scale. They simply trust their (linked) suppliers. This si the big discussion in Europe at the moment where they want to hold the supermarkets responsible for the their current problem. Euroepans are also not to clever I think as the supermarket sells a finished product, they do not manufacture it nor do they have to do any test to ensure that a banana is banana and Cow meat is indeed cow meat(without mixing it with horesemeat or like in SA waterbuffalo, donky and god knows whatelse they put into it. The manufacturer of the meat should be held responsible all the way this should include the farmer, the meat processor or the one that packs it and then supplies or sells it to the supermarket. They are the ones handling the product and they should have to provide proof tof what they supply, manufacture etc. This should be a nice job creation point at the source employ a few laboratory people to certify the "farmed meat" proof that it is free of pesticides, antibiotics, dips or any other foreign matter they fed it before they killed it. Ofcourse prices will go up dramatically, another saw point in Europe at the moment. But if you want to know what you are eating then one has little choice as we simply cannot trust the people who handle the meat before it is packed.

flatfourfan

Yup..........the certificates are on the wall where they serve. Like I said, I'm fussy where I buy my meat from.

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