turkey dispatch

completely agree Grannie, our pigs and turkeys all have, (had) names but we still ate them. 
I do find it a bit hippocritical when people eat meat but think I am cruel for eating meat I have reared myself.  I think we are responsible for every bit of meat we put in our mouths.  If people continue to eat pork products from abroad where the welfare standards are way below what is allowed in the UK then they are paying for the practice to continue.  Same thing with chicken.
Our animals have the best possible welfare standards.  I would MUCH rather eat them than some poor overcrowded animal, fed till it can hardly move and has never seen the light of day, never mind being allowed to forage and enjoy normal natural behavior.

I'll give the soap box back now!

We get this from my parents  and sister wont eat our meat but will buy a piece of tasteless white pork from the supermarket, we raise our own chickens, ducks, turkeys, geese and pigs with no problems eating them, but when the lamb was brought home ready for the freezer I felt a bit odd about it.

I know it has had as good a life as I can give it. fresh air, plenty of good food etc, it has been talked to, sung to, and when it's time comes, it is killed with as little stress as possible, and humanely done.

If I sing to anything, they object, loudly and at length!     You must be more tuneful than me .....