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Thursday, June 18, 2009 3:42 AM |
I have watched the progress of Peter Gott with a mixture of admiration and enjoyment. Peter works tirelessly promoting Cumbrian produce and in particular free range pigs and pork. The ones below are from Peters own Sillfield Farm.
I have noticed that when he get the chance to demonstrate some aspect of butchery and talk to the public, he always tries to explain the difference economically between a free range pig, and one reared intensively. I was watching him at the recent Fell Gather at Cockermouth, which was really worth going to and I noticed him holding up a chalk blackboard, with a simple parallel drawn between the two methods. Typically a rare breed sow, reared outdoors, will produce 20 piglets in one year, whereas an intensively bred one will produce 55. And maybe more dramatically to reach 75kg, its 28 weeks for a rare breed free range, vs 16 weeks for an intensively reared pig.
So in essence you can expect to pay more for your fine tasting, slow grown, free range pork. But isn't the like a lot of things in life, you get what you pay for. Martin |
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