For vegetarian and vegan eyes only. Gordon Ramsy is doing this segment on breading his own meat animals?

Question

He names them and keeps them at his yard where his children play with them, then they go to the abtour where they are slaughtered and then he makes a range of recipes with the meat.

I personally think that this behaviour is barbaric and shows an act of inhumanity. I have no problem with breading animals for food if that is what you must do getting to know them as friends, hand raising them, getting them to trust then eating them is just incredible. His children play with them get to know their personalities and then eat them. Barbaric. Whats you oppinion?

Also if you wish to report me to Yahoo please do but I have broken no guidelines, I have simply asked what people think in a vegetarian/vegan forum. I have not posted this question in cooking and I am asking people what they think. Am I the only one who thinks this way. I am not peddling PETA but I think that hand raising baby animals and letting them live with the family and then eating them is inhumane. Was lambs now pigs.

Edit: trevor M & Krista - thats exactually my point Trevor M it really creaps me out and yes Krista I think he is a man with very little ability to be compassionate.

exsft: Its not his life its his children and the innocent lives of his pigs. Its my oppinion thats all.

exsft: Its not his life its his children and the innocent lives of his pigs. Its my oppinion thats all.

exsft: Its not his life its his children and the innocent lives of his pigs. Its my oppinion thats all.

exsft: Its not his life its his children and the innocent lives of his pigs. Its my oppinion thats all.

exsft: Its not his life its his children and the innocent lives of his pigs. Its my oppinion thats all.

exsft: Thankyou for voicing your oppinion - the word's inhumane not inhuman. My objection is this to kill something that you have looked after, cared for, raised and encouraged your trust is in my oppinion barbaric. It does not seem particularly compassionate or caring. To me its like eating your own pet rabbit - vile. Would you eat your dog? I would be ashamed to be his grown daughter and to understand that he used my child hood for his own properganda - to validate why he discriminates against vegetarians in his restraunts or contaminates vegetarian food with meat stock - thats why Gordon Ramsy has not be able to be as easily recognised as other celebrity chefs and has actually had stars removed. He shows obvious contempt for everybody and any oppinion that differs from his own(hey you both have something in common) You have your oppinion and I respect that can you say the same to my view??

Answer 1

I'm not a vegan (I do wish I had the willpower to be one though), but I agree with your description that what he's doing is barbaric. There are far better ways of teaching a child where meat comes from (example? TELLING them) and to allow your child to become emotionally attached to a living, breathing creature and then expect your child to EAT that creature borders on sadistic. Not to mention allowing an animal to feel safe and content around these people, then suddenly this poor animal is slaughtered by those he/she trusted and loved! JMO.

Answer 2

I'm vegetarian.

I see what you mean; but I think a lot of farm people do that.

Yeah, it's disturbing to me, but I also think its more honest than folks who eat meat and can't stand the sight of blood. At least farmers are comfortable with themselves.

My father is from a very large family and I had a lot of uncles who were farmers; but they are all dead now and I guess the farms have been sold to other people. I remember things like that bugging me since I was a little kid; it has a lot to do with why I became vegetarian (the only one in my family).

I live in St. Louis, which is a "city", but there are rural areas and farms that are less than an hour's drive away. I have to drive to Jefferson City (rural) every now and then to bring old medical records to storage. The main guy who works there got injured pretty bad once when a pig we has trying to slaughter kicked him in the head or something. (The guy is better now, and I have no idea how the pig managed to do that.) Nobody there knows I'm vegetarian, I didn't come out and say "serves you right", but let's just say part of my brain got a good laugh. I definitely would have picked on the guy if I knew him better. Lots of country boys make fun of each other when they get hurt, and he probably wouldn't have minded. I don't think it would have made any difference to to the farm animals, though.

I don't even know who "Gordon Ramsy" is, and there's no way I would watch this TV show or whatever it is. But, I'll bet a least a few people who see it are going to want to become vegetarian.

Answer 3

I watched that episode!

First of all I am vegan, but my opinion is a little different.

I recorded it on DVR because my husband didn't believe that they would actually air that - I suppose the BBC is more lenient. I'm glad my daugther didn't see it... They did have the discretionary black screen with a warning before the scene aired. It wasn't as bad as some slaughterhouses, to be honest. It was still shocking though because he seemed so proud of those pigs, and they were like pets.

I think I am grateful, however, that the animals were in the lap of luxury their whole lives. They never knew any wrongs, only in death did they really experience any pain, and once dead they're dead... he used every piece he could, even the intestines for sausage...

I would be much more upset if he didn't love and care for the animals, if they were just a chained up, faceless creature in a tiny metal cage, pumped full of antibiotics and hormones.

You see what I mean?

Those pigs suffered very little. After all, even us humans have painful deaths sometimes, and I would prefer to be zapped in the head and then killed (seemingly) without pain rather than a heart attack, cancer or a car accident...

However, it would have been best if he hadn't killed them at all, true. But I respect him for raising his own meat. Though I did find it bizarre that he fed that one pig beer the whole time. Poor little guy, drunker than a koala bear...

Answer 4

Although I'm vegetarian & would love it if more ppl would stop eating meat, I realize it's not gonna happen anytime soon. My feelings about what Gordon Ramsey is doing are mixed-- Although the whole idea of eating someone you've known from birth creeps me out, @ least the animals have a decent quality of life & the kids have an honest idea of where their "food" comes from. Traditionally, this hasn't been an unusual practice & although it does strike me as barbaric, if ppl insist on eating animals I think this is a somewhat less gruesome method than the horror & anonimity of animals in factory farms. It is callous, though & I wouldn't want to be one of Ramsey's kids.

Answer 5

For me a vegetarian it seems very weird. I don't get a puppy then when it's old enough and loves and trust me kill it and eat it. I do understand the need to know where your food comes from (the reason I became a vegetarian to begin with), and of course these animals would not undergo the sheer torture of mass production farming. I guess some people really don't believe that living things besides humans feel fear, love, and trust, and that their will to survive is important.

Answer 6

Kudos to Gordon. He has done what all meat eaters should do. Kill their own meat (at least once) and let their children know where it comes from.

I am a meat eater. The only thing I feel guilty about is that I have never killed an animal myself. Not that I have any particular blood lust, but because I feel a little cowardly for never having done the "dirty work" myself. Killing is not a natural act. Even lion cubs have to be taught how to do it.

Survival is barbaric. But we humans are meat eaters and have been for over 2 million years (at least according to the fossil and archaeological record).

Answer 7

I think what he's doing is more humane than buying meat that's from a factory farm. I know I definitely wouldn't do it but at least he's giving them a good life before killing them which is more than what most animals get. It's far less barbaric to raise your own animals in good conditions and then eat them than it is to eat an animal that's led a miserable life with no one ever caring for it. If you want to put energy into easing animal sufering then your first priority should be factory farms.

Answer 8

I think it's a very good thing he's doing. These animals are definitely better off than most animals that get killed for meat by large companies. Do you think that raising animals in cages and then killing them is better than raising animals in his yard and then killing them?

Answer 9

Children that live on farms have this happen regularly I understand. Do I think it is insensitive? Yeah I suppose these children learn the facts of life early in life about where meat comes from.

Answer 10

I like him,his shows are good and he has super famous restaurants but I looked at the menus for all of them and vegetarians can only eat the desserts and one or two salads.He got in trouble once for serving a vegetarian food with chicken stock.