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| About Us | |
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| Oxford Sandy and Black pigs | |
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|  Penstone Farm is full of colour! Our horses, our goats, our sheep and even our pigs are coloured!Our views on farming today.Farming like many other British industries are fast dissappearing and have certainly changed from being respectful and caring of the animals to factory farming them in a way where there is no quality of life for the animal and no quality of taste to the meat.Cost is everything of course. We all want a good deal, but people have forgotten how meat should taste and are content to buy cheap supermarket products produced in countries where animals are kept in appalling conditions never seeing the light of day, never tasting grass and never growing into animals that when turned into meat actually taste of anything. It is hard to make a living from farming today because we are all brainwashed by the "have it now" concept. We have forgotten how long it takes to produce a piece of pork properly so that the animal has some life before being turned into sausages. We do not want to farm in this way. Our farm respects the animals and they are well cared for and have a happy free range life. We do not have so many animals that they are shut in all the time, all our animals go out but have shelter from the weather. When they are ready for slaughter they go off to the abbatoir to be slaughtered humanly. The meat produced is as good as it gets. It tastes the way meat should taste.  Our Pigs Don't Fly!We are what we eat! How often have we read that statement? With meat that has been factory farmed it is worth thinking about. If the animals never go out and eat grass and never play in the sun, how stressed must they be. How unhappy to be living in cramped filthy conditions. Think of battery hens or sows in pens where they never even touch their young except to feed them. How sad. Imagine how they hold that stress in their bodies. Then they are killed and shipped or flown to us and we eat the meat.Our pigs don't fly!! How often have you heard people say "I feel stressed and I don't even know why!" I have a theory that we are eating "stress" and becoming "stressed." When did the word "stress" become so popular that it is used in daily conversation? Was it about the same time as we were flung headlong into the 20th century along with "fast food" and "fast living." Lets go back to being slow! Lets enjoy life more. Lets have less but better quality. Obesity is a 20th century problem. We eat too much. Too much factory processed foods. We need fresh farm food again. Vegetables grown without being sprayed with pesticides.Fruit picked from trees. Seasonal food, not available all year round. Remember the treat of eating fresh strawberries only avaiable two months of the year when the sun has ripened them? You can buy them all year round in the supermarket but they won't taste like Cheddar strawberries when the sun has been on them. Again we are what we eat! Let us be sensible and eat good quality food. We will be healthier and happier as a result.Maybe if we eat happy animals we can reduce stress! |
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