Party Vibe

them pigs are now all in everyones freezers, (including that of another dude I thought was a veggie :laugh_at: ) I thought it took way longer for them to grow. The video is on the above pig club link, there’s nothing too graphic on there but although this isn’t a veggie / vegan site like TL is I guess a few folk on here are so will leave it as a link to click on. Watching it only made me hungry :laugh_at:

actually he did have a heart attack and chronic heart problems. perhaps from continually eating bad quality food. Even much of what my generation and the one before was fed is now discouraged if not even banned. (Incidentally he also spoke Dutch, German and Italian and used trips there to inspire him for comedy European characters).

As for the pigs if you click on the blog link at the latest video there is fuckloads of bacon, pork etc from two pigs. Enough for about 5 families worth (I know a few of the folk there and the older ones all have kids in their teens/20s)

The butcher chap is particularly skilled and got the most meat off the bones for the traditional method. In mainstream factory farming they use some high pressure machine what blasts it off and creates a slurry of meat (as rank as it sounds and gets put in with the offal and used in cheap sausages etc). Those bones are often boiled for soup and the bone given to dogs to chew (after it has been boiled or it could make them ill and is probably against some Defra rule). Also the meat slurry ends up in them big donner kebab things, this of course also pisses off those who are devout Muslims as they cannot trust the kebab shop (even though often the workers there are supposed to be also Muslim!). A bloke I worked with at Defra who was from the Punjab told me about this and how much dodgy meat is around (not just misdeclared halal but even more rank things)

Hence why its not a bad thing to be able to watch the pig (or any other species you might eat) all the way from the farm. That said they did show the more photogenic bits of pig rather than the offal (probably not to frighten people), though if they aren’t eating those bits they will probably be feeding it to the cats and dogs…

The Fillipinos at my work were really happy that you can get 3 pigs heads for £10 at Felixstowe (and so was the butcher as they are otherwise difficult to shift nowadays once separated from the rest of the pig and they have to sell them cheaper to the pet food places)

Since the start of this thread, the families in the pig club have eaten 10 pigs and 8 more are being fattened as of September (ready for processing at Christmas).

The first two pigs fed 5 families but more have joined. I will ask Joanne who runs the community farm as she is actually a maths graduate from Cambridge so will have a more accurate idea. The (linked) vegetable garden now feeds at least 50 people and probably up to 75.