When I was little I was told to wash my hands after wiping my arse. When I was old enough to cook I was told to wash my hands after handling raw meat. Now we're told to wash our hands after touching anything at all.
Yet you can still buy a ready-to-cook meal with fresh chicken breast in it, with the sauce sachet dumped in with the raw chicken and the instructions simply say, "put the sauce sachet aside".
You need to wash your hands anyway because the flipping sauce sachet is covered in sauce and wet vegetables!
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You needn't worry about them. While the 100,000 pigs are being slaughtered, the government is engaged in talks to see what can be done.greenmark wrote: ↑Fri Oct 08, 2021 10:15 pmSlaughtering 100,000 healthy animals to landfill is a national disgrace.
Forget lack of labour, leave 'em in the field until they can be used.
I simply don't believe this is a sensible solution. I realise pigs are a commodity from an industry with low margins, but the idea of throwing them in the bin is appalling.
Of all domesticated animals, pigs are the top. We use everything but the oink.
Apparently, an overgrown pig produces chops so large they won't fit into the standard size package tray! I would have thought a larger tray would have been the solution but I'm probably missing something.
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Pigs are not like cattle/sheep, you can't just put them in a field ... they don't graze! You have to feed them bought food. Meat production is a conveyor belt, every week more mature for market. You can't just switch the process off. And it's not just the current ones ... it applies to those due to markets next week all the way to those not yet born.greenmark wrote: ↑Fri Oct 08, 2021 10:15 pmSlaughtering 100,000 healthy animals to landfill is a national disgrace.
Forget lack of labour, leave 'em in the field until they can be used.
I simply don't believe this is a sensible solution. I realise pigs are a commodity from an industry with low margins, but the idea of throwing them in the bin is appalling.
Of all domesticated animals, pigs are the top. We use everything but the oink.
Before I went away last week, workmen were digging up the roads installing high-speed fibre broadband; they completed the road to the east of my house, mysteriously they left a chunk out and worked to the west of my house. I thought at least they can do my part of the road while I'm away. But no! They timed it so their workers are digging right outside my flipping house the moment I return! I suspect shortly after I've gone to bed this morning the diggers will be firing up. 
