Mutton dressed as lamb

Life is simpler if you are a veggie.
Mutton dressed as lamb, horse masquerading as beef, doesn’t matter at all.
What surprises me is that people are surprised to find that the stuff in ready meals is not what it says on the packet.
Processed meat has always has been made from the bits you cannot sell as ordinary meat. Sausages, kebabs, burgers, pies. Who knows what is in them?
This has been going on since butchers began. Sweeney Todd used customers instead of animals in his pies.
And what you do and don’t like to find on your plate varies from place to place. We like horses and dogs so we don’t want to eat them, in other places they don’t mind eating dogs or horses, but they would hate to find pigs or cows in their pies.
I became a veggie late in life with the help of my children and an American taxi driver.
My children, with the clarity of young minds, made me think about what I ate. And the American taxi driver told me we were raising our cows badly long before mad cow disease became news over here.
Maybe this latest media frenzy will make one or two others think more about what they eat.

On cormorants and humans

I read that anglers want cormorants to be killed to stop them eating all the fish.
Fish are food for cormorants. They are sport for anglers.
In the animal world, big eats small. Strong kills weak.
In the human world, we are supposed to be more civilised. Big and strong are not supposed to kill small and weak - not unless you are a member of a government, or a bunch of religious fanatics.
Cormorants are fantastic hard-working, team-building birds.
If anglers run out of fish, they could take up golf or running or any one of a dozen of other sports which would take them out of the house and into the countryside and wouldn’t involve impaling anything with barbed hooks.
The anglers are just like the farmers who want to kill badgers to reduce the risk of their cattle getting diseased. We think we have the right to kill animals which threaten the animals in which we have an interest.
I'm a veggie. I don't want to kill any of them. I know they kill each other. I think we ought to know better.