Farewell pigs as you go to meet your tasty destiny.

Have they been despatched already? So cute:-(

Those pigs have been dead for weeks if not months.... eaten, digested, and into the toilet they go.... mmmm good eats!!

I dont think i'd be able to do it personaly, i'm not niave to not know where my meat comes from, but i couldnt purposely rear it kill it and dish it up. Its enough to turn me vegetarian

That was awful to watch.

I'm not naive about where meat comes from either and yepp that's definatly a push towards vegetarianism!

All in a day's work fellas!

I didnt watch it. Did they suffer or was it over quickly?

It seemed to be over quite quickly, although the pigs still moved and seemed to still be grunting after they had their throats cut. It wasnt that bad to watch,(Gordon went a bit white) i found the eel beheading and pig castration more offensive.

I just hope they didnt suffer. I guess they had a good life compared to most factory farmed pigs. How Gordon could of watched I will never know. He must be pretty heartless.

Well done Gordon for going with the pigs to slaughter and seeing what happens first hand, its not an easy thing to do.

It would have been heartless if he didnt go I would have thought.

Found the whole scene quite disturbing.I think half the problem was that he personalised the pigs by naming them.I had resigned myself to the fact that they were going to go but it was not easy viewing!

That was very sad to watch, bad television if you ask me!
Gordon Ramsay obviously has something missing if he can stand there and watch that on national tv.
Poor pigs, how could he!? What a t**t

I admire the guy actually for going and seeing it through. I thought it was over very quickly.

It wasn't easy to watch but I'm glad they showed the whole process and not just a tearful wave goodbye to the pigs as they went down the road and came back wrapped in plastic

Quite right. He did have the bottle to see it through to the end and you could see that he was pretty shaken up by it.

It wasn't easy viewing at all.

I'm sure that there will be loads of complaints about it but I'm not sure how people can commplain really.

It's a fact of life and the reality of eating meat and why should people be allowed to put their heads in the sand? Take responsibility for what you eat!

I think it was good to show the slaughter of the pigs - for the people who do eat meat (myself included) it is important to have an understanding of where the bacon/steak etc that sits in the fridges in the supermarkets comes from.

However, that abbatoir looked a decent (if thats the word) place - a nice small place where the staff working there seemed to have respect for what they were doing. I'd hate to see the way things are run in the huge abbatoirs abroad where we get our cheap cuts from....

And don't worry, the leg twitching and grunting coming form the pigs after they had been killed WAS just nerve reflexes.

Oh dear! Poor old naive Gordon.

'Thought he'd show us all how life (and death) really is but all he achieved was to be double conned by liberal pinko TV producers into helping to produce yet another veggy promo.

'Shut him right up, though, didn't it?

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Originally posted by Kid A:
That was very sad to watch, bad television if you ask me!
Gordon Ramsay obviously has something missing if he can stand there and watch that on national tv.
Poor pigs, how could he!? What a t**t

Poor pigs? They never felt a thing. Fact is this is how meat is produced, plain and simple!
You should see it when a half ton bull is hanging up and kicking like mad.

In reply to brocolli, the vast majority of abbatoirs in this country are well run, hygeinic places where animal welfare is a key priority. Europe is, however, a different story....

I watched the pigs being killed but I'm glad I wasn't there. I think Gordon has got a lot of guts to follow it through. It must have been so horrible being there. The smell would have been awful.

I think it is all very well to say that they didn't suffer, but how do we know! They are bound to feel a certain amount of pain. I think alot of people are right in what they said about Gordon rearing them and then killing them. They did have a good life but I think he should have kept a bore and sow and produced the pork from their off spring! The way lots of farmers do. That way at the end you still have a close bond with the pig ie the mother that you get to keep but I suppose the producers of F Word were not interested in that!

how cud that be shown on tele it was sick.I know its happens anyway but it doesnt have to be shown on national tele

Gordon could have stopped it happening but to see thos poor pigs still moving after having their throats cut made me feel sick.

Thats all

Hi TBH
I thought it was very personal and not as bad as I thought it would be I am a community leader on a vegetarian and vegan board on another site and have had no mention of it today - we had loads after the piglets last week.

I think the stunning of the pigs was a good thing, and it was very quick, everything twitches after it is dead even us so thats nothing new.

I visited an abbatiore once, they shot a cow in the head, the removed its head an hung it on a hook and the face twitched for ages after - that was horrible ewwwwwwwww

Well donr to Gordon for showin gpeopl ewhere their dinner comes from and hopefully it will turn a few more peopl eveggie or set people on the road to eatinig locally produced organic meats which have been killed quickly and not cheaply produced mass farmed animals

thumbs up from the veggie
Nat

watchin the pigs being slaughted was heartbreakin spesh 4 gordan who had looked after them for so long didnt expect that was the way they where slaughted!
intresting to watch but had a lump in my throat

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Originally posted by HRC99:
Quite right. He did have the bottle to see it through to the end and you could see that he was pretty shaken up by it.

It wasn't easy viewing at all.

I'm sure that there will be loads of complaints about it but I'm not sure how people can commplain really.

It's a fact of life and the reality of eating meat and why should people be allowed to put their heads in the sand? Take responsibility for what you eat!

Agree completely. If you are going to eat meat (as I do) I think you need to understand the process involved in getting it to your table. We also should support the type of breeders who rear and slaughter their meat in as humane as way as possible and avoid the cheap crap. I'd rather pay a bit more for something and east less of it. It was also clear to see that Gordon did not enjoy seeing the pigs go at all but felt it was important to see hsi time with them until the very end. Good on him.

i am glad that the harsh reality of killing an animal was shown on television on this program yesterday.
however, if any of you thought *well its quite humane* think again. what happened to those animals would be like a picture of heaven to every other pig that gets slaughtered. for the tv program the animal comes in, is relaxed, they are stunned for the correct amount of time to make them unconscious, and then the rest happens while they are unaware.
is this what happens in the actual meat industry? NO
most animals are brought in quickly one after another to reach a quota, often they arent stunned properly because of this and they go through the scalding, and gutting process very aware of whats happening to them. and even previous to this part, trinny and susana where taken to the abatoir in a relaxed happy state, most animals are taken in overloaded trucks where they fall and injure themselves on the way sometimes hurting each other or are suffocating and panicking, and shock guns are used to move them along, before they have to hear the horrific sounds of a slaughter house, and then go through it themselves and have the luck of the draw whether they are consious or not.
so before you make your mind up.
dont use this as a prime example because its not x