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What was impressive to me is how Gordon raised his children to raise lifestock in their home backyard in the U.K. and how they cooked and ate that which they raised. Permaculture principles and old-world economy and pragmatism in action. Nothing was mentioned about butchering at home and whether his children were included in butchering. My only real living experience is in Australia and now newly in England. What I perceive is that England is under-regulated (or regulation is not monitored and policed) and Australia suffocatingly over-regulated (where it is about income streams not about good governance). With home butchering I hope there are regulations in place that ensure minimal to no duress and pain for the animals which have undergone home husbandry to be slaughtered. The living experience of the food cycle and the human immersion in that I feel is the only way forward for the human. What highly density single animal breed mass-farming and mono-cropping is doing to our food chain and the World and the health of people and our Planet is artfully concealed. I know it has become necessary to need the exponential population growth of people. Antibiotics and livestock and antibiotic resistance and mono-cropping and the poisons of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers in the ecosystem are all downplayed. So much evidence is discoverable. The true horror of this is all concealed from consumers. How to revolutionalize this I do not know as it requires structural change in the foundations of industrial food production and these processes have been normalised as human population density has increased uncapped and unregulated. We need television programming and foregrounding innovations in our food cycle, not food decadence if a past era.
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