We don’t eat much meat as a household (it’s too hot this time of year, fruit, dips and salads are much nicer). I hate pork though. Years ago a flatmate of mine took some pork chops out of the freezer, let them defrost then decided he didn’t want them so put them back in the fridge. Next day I take them out and cook them – I lost 7kg in 24 hours! I have never had food poisoning like it, it just about killed me.
When I was living in the US I worked on a couple of farms. One was a pig farm; all those stories of cruelty are not only true but even worse than you think – like castrating piglets with a rusty scalpel and docking them with fencing pliers!
The other farm I worked on was an organic vegetable farm, they made a doco on it ‘The real dirt on Farmer John’, much nicer place to work on.