Piglets on a supermarket shelve

Yes. This is what made the news in Poland most recently. One of the supermarket chain - Makro Cash&Carry - started to sell in vacuum packages piglets - meat that is - not cute pets. The view wasn't pleasant of course - you had those baby pigs, dead, wrapped tightly in plastic. The link: pig Like meat! Yes. Like all kinds of meat people buy every day and eat every day. Pork - it is pig too but if we buy it in a form of thin slices we treat it more like something what grew on a tree and not like a big muscle of that piglet or its mommy pig or daddy pig. So, in Poland - the country of huge consumption of pork - I guess an average Pole eats pork at least once every day - you get this huge "scandal". How one can sell piglets??!! Horrible to look at them! dead animals! Yes. It is hard to look at them. But on the other hand maybe this is something we should have more often. We, people living in cities and buying in supermarkets and trying to forget that eating meat means killing animals first. And unfortunately very often the whole life of those animals was a disaster - industrial farming. But we don't want to see it don't want to know it. We just want our pork or beef or better veal and lamb. No old animals meat, we like soft meat of young ones. Yes, those piglets and tiny calfs. On the other hand most of us is strongly against hunting. How can anyone shoot a deer? - we ask, we meat-eaters. It is so so strange. I'm sure it isn't like that for country people. They do live surrounded by farm animals, they do know what they need to do with the piggy to get a piece of ham or what to do with chickens to get hot-wings. Maybe this is what our kids should have in their school program. And we should get reminded time to time of this. Maybe this would lead us to cut our meat consumption? Maybe once a week a piece of fish, once in two weeks a chicken, once in a month pork and once in three months some beef? This is more or less my meat schedule. I don't mind eating shrimps and fish, I do not consider those animals big brainers so I'm OK with killing them for food. But I do care of a decent life of all farm mammals and also chickens. I do my best to buy organic. It is not so easy and I admit - I do buy regular supermarket meat sometimes. Always feeling guilty! Because I always see the animal behind this nice piece of meat. Fortunately recently I discovered in my local supermarket organic meat. In Helsinki there are few places where you can buy or order organic meat and also meat from local small farmers (I believe they do take care of their animals). There is one shop in Hakaniemi market hall - check the link reininliha.fi - very good meat and not pricey at all, or check the link makumaku.fi - there you can order organic and local food. I never tried to do this yet, but I will. And going back to Poland and poor piglets. I guess people have already forgot the famous Polish specialty served for big occasions like big weddings or big company events or that sort of parties. Baked in a whole piece - what? - a piglet! with an apple in its mouth. Yes, this same piglet which made such sorry feelings in those pork-eaters hearts.