A recent news story indicates that the British have become more intolerant to the sight of meat for sale, which further indicates that there is a gentle shift towards vegetarianism and a greater sensitivity towards animals. Or are Brits simply becoming more intolerant of the real world and want to live in a sanitized, artificial world?
In the past, people were familiar with seeing dead and carved up animals hanging in butcher shop windows.
Sometimes partridge, pheasant and rabbit were hung in rows. The sight of butchered carcasses now offends the eye of many Brits. That is what is seems like and I can fully understand because when I see a butchers shop window I see dead animals not “meat” for consumption.
And so it is with JBS Butchers in Sudbury, Suffolk. In the past people would admire their window display of “dead animals” hanging on hooks.
Then suddenly it became unacceptable. Their window display turned the stomachs of residents. One resident wrote to the local newspaper, Suffolk Free Press complaining that the display was “disgusting”. Another resident was afraid her 12-year-old daughter would be upset by the sight of butchered bodies of animals and so avoided the shopping percent all together.
JBS Butchers fearing that their presence would cause a downturn in trade for the other shops nearby radically changed their display. They have joined the ranks of the butcher shops displaying sanitised cling-film wrapped “meat”.
Brits no longer accept the sight of animals butchered for their consumption. Are Brits becoming more animal rights aware? Is this a good thing for cat welfare in the long term? It probably is.
Since I’m doing more cooking for my cats to give them a better diet (thank you, Rudolph), I’ve found that it’s pretty nauseating at times. Now, boiling chicken or slightly broiling beef is stinky business. How I’ve changed over the years! That stuff used to smell good to me when I was growing up.
Truthfully, I think most of the civilized world is moving toward a healthier diet. Meat may never be eliminated but lean meat is popular. It doesn’t make it better in my eyes, but healthwise, it’s better.
I’m always asked if I feel that I am deficient in protein. No, I’m not. A tablespoon of good peanut butter is higher in protein than an 8 ounce steak.
one thing ive noticed with my furbabies if they dont get meat or if ive run out of meat. They are not their happy selves and i get into aLot of trouble. Thats when live animals come for a visit i.e rats,mice,birds. So i want to give them as much meat as possible as i know they love it.
Apparently some primary school kids don’t even associate meat with animals, they have no idea that bacon is pig and beef burger is cow, this is because as has been said meat is now anonymously wrapped in cling film for the supermarket chill cabinet or hewn into unrecognisable chunks for the butchers shop on the high street. But disguise it all you want the stink of dead and decomposing flesh is still there, I avoid going near the raw meat bit of the supermarket and keep my eyes averted and don’t breathe when passing the butchers as it turns my stomach now to smell (or worse see and smell) meat. But cats need meat, dogs need meat, that is how they are made and they should have what they need, I don’t agree with people who force their own diet choices onto their animals, or onto other people for that matter.