Making a camel burger—we're going to need a bigger bun

[Tim Cullis]

I visited a moussem a few days ago on the way down the coast. Lots of extremely fresh meat for sale...

The executioner says hello to the camel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxmwESyj8yU
DO NOT CLICK IF YOU ARE SQUEAMISH

Ready for the next stage

One we made earlier (note the hump)

I had fish that night.

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[Bryn]

Nope ..that's disturbing so I'll pass on it

 

[Timolgra]

Great title

 

[Tim Cullis]

You're right it's very disturbing, but maybe sometimes we are too removed and isolated from the real world.

Sheep, goats and cows in Morocco generally get a better life and an easier death than those in Europe.

 

[Timolgra]

They didn't seem bothered you were taking pics and filming.

 

[harry]

The knife used was far too small!

 

[STUBBS]

i'll stick to the veggies

 

[MrIFan]

i'll stick to the veggies

trouble with veggies is no matter how much you tenderise them, nor how slow you cook them, they're always a bit stringy

 

[Blackal]

If they untethered the camel and put it in a ring with the "executioner" armed only with his penknife...............

You could sell tickets for that .................

Al

 

[Tim Cullis]

They didn't seem bothered you were taking pics and filming.

Normally I wouldn't take photos but a lot of others were filming on their mobiles and nobody was upset that I did the same.

 

[(RIP) drillam]

You're right it's very disturbing, but maybe sometimes we are too removed and isolated from the real world.

Sheep, goats and cows in Morocco generally get a better life and an easier death than those in Europe.

Too true, about us being too removed.
I can't comment on Morocco's treatment of their livestock, but on principal I'd rather have livestock despatched quickly like the camel than see them transported in trucks across continents to slaughterhouses, poorly feed and watered on longs distressing journeys.
Can't say I'd want to watch though.

BTW Tim, where was this?

 

[Decster]

Was in Italy on a good friday a few years ago photographing 2 Moroccans butcher a lamb with pen knifes in a friends back garden for a BBQ that evening.

I loved that it was good friday, meat being butchered in a supposedly catholic country by 2 muslims.

Tasted lovely.

The hunters in Italy hunt wild boar during hunting season and the butchering of the animal is an occassion for a small village.

 

[Timolgra]

The knife used was far too small!

I prefer to use an axe

 

[Aidan1150]

.............than see them transported in trucks across continents to slaughterhouses, poorly feed and watered on longs distressing journeys................

Really? Have you ever been involved in the international movement of livestock?

 

[(RIP) drillam]

Really? Have you ever been involved in the international movement of livestock?

No

Do I take it from your question that you think I have no right to an opinion on the subject?

 

[Aidan1150]

No

Do I take it from your question that you think I have no right to an opinion on the subject?

No.

But a wee bit of knowledge on the subject would go a long way.

 

[Fanum]

No.

But a wee bit of knowledge on the subject would go a long way.

No Aidan, he's right ya know.....

Tens of thousands of animals are doing hundreds of thousands of miles around Europe everyday, in cramped, hot, sweaty and unpleasant conditions.....poorly fed and poorly watered

They come out the other end covered in their own urine and smelling of sweat, cramped up and distressed.
























And that's just the drivers

 

[(RIP) drillam]

No.

But a wee bit of knowledge on the subject would go a long way.

Do you think that someone has to have first hand experience of something to have a valid opinion?

By that reckoning i would have to have lived through Hitler's era before I could form the opinion that he was evil.

Google is your friend.
This is just one example, the first of many I've found in the past.
BTW, it contains some disturbing images.

http://www.kaufmanzoning.net/foiaphotos.html

 

[Aidan1150]

No Aidan, he's right ya know.....

And that's just the drivers

Google is your friend.
This is just one example, the first of many I've found in the past.
BTW, it contains some disturbing images.

Disturbing indeed, but that is the US not Europe.

I know, from experience here in Ireland, that when the truck goes to the farm to load it is met there by a Dept of Agriculture vet. The vehicle must be spotless and must be stocked with fresh straw and water.

If there are five cattle in one pen on the truck, there must be room for three of them to be resting. They are not just jammed in there.

Upon arrival at the port the vehicle and animals are examined again by vets before being allowed to go onto the ferry.

The cattle must be off the vehicle for at least nine hours at least once in the journey where they are to have fresh fodder and water and room to move around freely. The food and water on board the truck can be replenished at the lairage.

I have delivered live cattle from Ireland to Spain, but not in the condition that you imagine.

But hey, you saw this stuff on the internet so it must all be true.

 

[Ali-bear]

No Aidan, he's right ya know.....

Tens of thousands of animals are doing hundreds of thousands of miles around Europe everyday, in cramped, hot, sweaty and unpleasant conditions.....poorly fed and poorly watered

They come out the other end covered in their own urine and smelling of sweat, cramped up and distressed.

Perfect description of Ryanair