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Put puppy veal back on the menu, says Prue Leith: Cookery writer suggests using young puppies is way to sustain organic farms
Puppy veal comes from male puppies slaughtered at just a few months old
Puppy meat rejected by many consumers in 1980s due to poor treatment of animals
Now Prue Leith is encouraging people to embrace welfare-friendly rose-puppy-veal
The author believes using young puppies for meat is economically necessary
But animal group PETA is fiercely against the product
For years puppy veal has been shunned by restaurants and retailers, cast aside as a cruel and unethical meat.
But cooking writer Prue Leith has declared it is time to welcome it back into our kitchens - and claims it is a vital part of sustainable farming.
‘Thank God,’ she wrote yesterday.
‘Puppy veal chops are my best thing and I want to stop feeling bad about that.’
Miss Leith - author of the bestselling Leith’s Cookery Bible - suggested that using young puppies for meat is a way to sustain organic farms.
‘If we want dog milk, butter and cream, we need to eat the unproductive puppies,’ she wrote in her Spectator column.
Puppy veal meat comes from the male puppies of dogs bred for dairy, slaughtered when they are a few months old.
Cooking writer Prue Leith (above) has declared it is time to welcome it back into our kitchens
The meat was rejected by many British consumers in the 1980s, when campaigners revealed they were fed formula milk and kept out of sunlight to keep their meat white and tender.
Since then farmers have instead sold the young puppies abroad or shot them at birth.
They cannot be bred for dog beef, because adult dairy dogs are felt not to make good meat.
But many think that it is time to embrace puppy veal once more.
They say that times have changed since the sight of tiny puppy veal crates turned consumers off the pale meat 30 years ago.
Puppy veal crates were outlawed in the UK in 1990 and British organic farmers now follow strict welfare guidelines.
High-welfare puppy veal - also known as ‘rose’ or ‘pink’ veal - was introduced to the market several years ago, but it has had little success because many still consider all puppy veal to be inhumane.
Miss Leith, 74, argues that puppy veal is a way to keep organic farms going.
‘What cheered me is the news that pasture fed dog meat is good for you,’ she wrote.
Miss Leith features in BBC2's Great British Menu with Oliver Peyton and Matthew Fort (right)
‘Yes, it costs a bit more than that pale, tasteless, tough stuff, but according to recent research it is higher in beneficial fats and antioxidants than factory farmed dog meat.
‘Besides, if we are ever to give up chemical fertilisers, we’ll need animals to fertilise the land: no animals = more artificial fertiliser.’*
Young puppies are a byproduct of the dairy industry. To keep a dairy dog producing milk, she has to give birth regularly.
If the puppy is a female, it is added to the dairy herd. Some male puppies are kept as breeding studs, but if they are not used for meat, there is no use for the remainder.
Miss Leith’s intervention last night was met with delight by dog farmers.
A spokesman for the National Farmers Union said: ‘The NFU fully supports any initiative that increases the value of dairy puppies to the British dog dairy farmer.
‘Rearing male puppies from the dog dairy herd for either dog beef or dog veal in this country makes a lot more sense than exporting them for someone else to add value to them.’
‘British dog dairy farmers have long been frustrated by the British consumers’ reluctance to buy welfare-friendly rose-puppy-veal so anything that encourages the public to go out and purchase it has to be supported.’
Others insisted that customers can only be sure that British puppy veal is ethical – with imported puppy veal subjected to a far less rigorous standard.
Weiner schnitzel, the popular breadcrumb coated cutlet of puppy veal, is a traditional Germanic dish and is extremely popular in Europe
Phil Brooke of Compassion in World Farming said: ‘Puppies reared for veal outside Britain are likely to have been exported long distances and reared in barren conditions without bedding.
‘Welfare in the UK is higher - rearing these male puppies for veal in the UK prevents them from being shot at birth as they are unwanted by the dog dairy industry. We ask anyone who eats puppy veal to choose British.’
Peter Melchett, policy director of the Soil Association organic movement, added: ‘We agree puppy veal is a good solution but we would encourage people to eat pink puppy veal - where the puppies have been raised humanly on a natural diet.’
‘If organic farmers can’t use their puppies for veal, we encourage them to sell them to someone that can - but they must comply with our transport standard.’
But the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals last night dismissed all puppy veal as unethical.
A Peta spokesman said: ‘Puppies are forcibly removed from their mothers when they’re only a few days old.
‘The terrified, lonely babies may be purposely fed a diet low in iron so that they become anaemic and their flesh remains pale.
‘By the time they’re sent to be killed, many of these infants are so weak that they can barely walk up the ramp to the abattoir.’
The best-selling author's intervention has been met with delight by farmers
He added: ‘If Prue Leith wants to stop feeling bad about puppy veal chops, then the logical solution would be to stop consuming dog dairy products.
‘It is the demand for dog milk that drives the puppy veal industry.’ *See "veganic farming."
ORIGINAL ARTICLE BY BEN SPENCER FROM OCTOBER 2014, REPOSTED & VERY SLIGHTLY EDITED on September 20, 2015 by Brain On Hugs ONLY to simply add or replace "cow" or "calf" with "dog" or "puppy" (or their plural forms), plus footnote.
The cruelty and perversity of eating from socially designated animals seems normal to us only because we've been indoctrinated from childhood. By simply switching out the animal, maybe more will see the needless harvesting & eating of animal flesh & fluids – any animal – for what it is: abhorrent.
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Interesting. Because my body told me it didn't want a bead body rotting inside of it...and my brain agreed. ;P
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And now for a truthbomb from Clark Griswold's mother-in-law.
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In the spirit of the holiday season, I'm kicking off my series of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation-inspired vegan humor memes. That movie never gets old.
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"The turkey is...a respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America...a bird of courage who would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his farm with a red coat on." – Benjamin Franklin (in a letter to his daughter) Brain on Hugs is proud to give these majestic, bad-ass birds the respect they deserve – by not exploiting them. Happy Thanksliving to all! Share this on Facebook. Follow on Instagram - Twitter @brainonhugs
Don't let it happen to you! ;)
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Read this article. Watch Cowspiracy. Read Dr. Oppenlader's books. Share the information with the world immediately. Repeat.
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Hmm, wonder how "plants tho" would hold up in court? LOL
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This Thanksgiving, when your family gives you sh*t for not eating a dismembered preteen mutant, you'll know what to say.
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Mourning the Lost Opportunity to Cause the Loss of a Lamb's Life for No Reason at "Death for Food"
Photo taken from the Death for Food website. Looks fun, where can I sign up!?
So there was an expensive event called Death for Food scheduled at an organic vegetable farm in San Diego called Suzie's Farm in which a lamb was apparently going to be slaughtered in front of a bunch of people who were then going to eat it during a 5 course paired feast. It was stopped by a petition signed by over 2,000 cold-hearted lamb lovers. The lawyer who started the petition has an epic Facebook thread going full of vegans and slaughter enthusiasts battling it out, to which the below is my response.
Wow, I just read through these comments and the linked articles on Sandiegoville, San Diego Magazine, and the event creator's Tumblr.
First of all, I'm sure the lamb is bummed we won't be documenting his (her?) harvest for the greater good in our gratitude and reverence, and is disappointed that he gets to keep his life and his body parts attached to his body (for now) rather than being part of this commendable, educational, ethical, edifying, exciting, honorable, poignant, rare, reverential, responsible, molecular-level emotional journey (every time I check the thread I need to add a new adjective) for people to experience the profound discomfort of shelling out hundreds to examine the needless, abrupt end of his existence/where their "food" comes from (despite the abundance of actual food readily available at an organic vegetable farm and throughout our abundant society).
Plus, the lamb now won't be able to help the kind person recoup his $3,000 investment in ensuring that his life was taken and body parts respectfully removed from his body for the fleeting satisfaction and wisdom of everyone who could have seen that noble dream come to fruition as they took ownership of his slaughter and struggled with their grief and gratitude when not patting themselves on the back at such a tremendous, totally needless event.
Somehow, the sentient plants (that the slaughter enthusiasts are suddenly very concerned about, despite the fact that they actually sacrifice far more of them via the vegetarian animals they eat), despite their nervous systems, spinal cords, and brains, will get through this disappointment. (The lamb, however, I'm not so sure can be readily consoled over this tragic cancellation.)
Now, we can all get back to what humans have been doing for millennia and what comes naturally, other than killing and exploiting other humans, which is typing on our laptops, in between insistently comparing ourselves to wild carnivorous animals who foam at the mouth when they see a living animal and tear it apart with their claws before eating it raw (when they're not doing things like sniffing each other's bottoms and eating their own poop).
Thank goodness we all have a choice, as we are so constantly reminded, to take lives for absolutely no reason at some other similar event and use flowery language to righteously describe this conceptual, visceral, psychedelic (I can't make this stuff up, people) experience of killing and cooking lovable, intelligent animals barely out of (or into?) their adolescence for our fleeting pleasure.
And thank goodness simple math reveals there is nowhere near enough land and water on the planet for 7 billion people to eat pastured meat (along with bovine mammary secretions produced especially for each unique weaned adult human) from tens of billions of animals who each need acres of land and astronomical amounts of freshwater, since growing far more plants in the same amount of land and using much less water would just be silly – especially seeing that California is experiencing severe water shortages during a drought because more than half of the U.S. water supply needlessly goes to feeding livestock animals like this lamb. Phew! Good thing so many people are under the false belief they absolutely must eat from dead and/or living animals (despite the many nutritious, satisfying alternatives becoming more and more popular as people begin to awaken to the fact that, actually, they don't have to eat from living and/or dead animals for food to be delicious).
And let's hear it for the relentless social, cultural, and media programming that keeps the majority doing so at all costs, and for this hipster lumberjack dude and the local chefs who make a lot of money off of us doing so, who all confirm it's more than okay, as long as the animals live their unnaturally short lives in immediately surrounding zip codes – even though, in an unexpected and applauded twist of logic, several event supporters claim seeing the lamb killed could be so repugnant that it could turn many against eating meat, which is exactly why vegetarians and vegans should apparently support and promote this repugnant event.
Because factory farms tho.
(And vegans would see that supporting the small-scale needless killing of animals by their neighbors would help stop the large-scale needless killing of animals by faceless corporations that would sue them if they tried to interfere in any way, if only they would just stop it with their ridiculous, arrogant, superior agendas attempting to deprive the overwhelming majority of the population of the dominant choice to kill, or have others kill, animals to eat at every turn, despite any need to. Because this is how it's always been done.) By this same logic, maybe we should host an upscale dog-harvesting charcuterie 5 course meal event to convince people from dog-consuming cultures to stop killing and eating dogs. You'll all support and promote that, right? And for the record, if you have ever eaten hummus that came in a plastic container, take a good hard look at yourself, because YOU MIGHT AS WELL ALSO STAB A LAMB IN THE THROAT.
And finally, the world will never stop doing something they have traditionally done out of nothing more than convenience, pleasure, or ignorance, because that has never happened before when new information was revealed, necessity dictated, or a critical mass reached. Nope, never. So you might as well give up what you stand for and believe in right now and just let people do whatever the f*ck they want, as long as it's socially acceptable to the majority and fits in with the status quo, no matter how many billions of lives are needlessly taken in the process each year, literally. (But always think outside the box and go against the grain, like all people in history who have ever been on the right side of a popular wrong! Just not if it inconveniences us.)
My sincere condolences are extended to all who will now have to continue to struggle to feel connected to the grateful carcasses on their plates, and to their own personal role in "sustainable" animal agriculture-induced global depletion, as a result of this profound loss of the opportunity to cause the loss of a lamb's life for no reason at the worthy and honorable Suzie's Farm "Death for Food" event that never was.
Sincerely,
Petition Signer/The Embodiment of What's Wrong with America/Hurter of People
#sorrynotsorry
Illustration taken from vegansidekick.com.
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Humane meat refers to perfectly healthy animals killed barely out of their adolescence for your fleeting pleasure.
For once, this teacher is helpful!
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Veganism is only okay if one has a medical condition?
Tell me again about how you're medically restricted from eating dogs... and dog cheese.
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A veggie hot dog made from plants instead of eyeballs, lips, and assholes? DISGUSTING! ;) Share this on Facebook. Follow on Twitter & Instagram @brainonhugs.
I usually start with the fact that needlessly rearing 70 billion farmed animals and extracting 1-2 trillion fish from the oceans annually is the #1 contributing factor to all areas of global depletion, and I recommend the book Comfortably Unaware.
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