don't understand your fascination with ribs, pork bellies and such like, now give me BBQ boned sholder of lamb

Beef brisket.

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Originally Posted by paraclete

don't understand your fascination with ribs, pork bellies and such like, now give me BBQ boned sholder of lamb

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No pork bellies or pigs feet for me..UGH!

I'll take a braised lamb shoulder any day . But there is some good eats from pig. My favorite is a German recipe called schweinshaxe which is roasted pig knuckles. The meat falls off the bone it is so tender .

this just shows the differences in our linage

My ancestors were from Southern Italy and Ireland ,but German food is some of my favorite

My ancestors were from Ireland too, but my selection of food is distinctly Australian; Lamb, Beef, Chicken, Potatoes, Rice, carrots, lettice, celery, beetroot, onion with the occasional fish and prawn

Is pork not eaten in Australia?

Yes, but not to the same extent you do, bacon and ham, but I haven't had roast pork or a pork chop in yonks. lots of the prok here comes from asia, so we tend not to trust it

Pork chops are my favorites...well one of them any ways. I imagine Asians raise pigs much differently than you do, or maybe we do here, but not sure. Hmm!

pigs are raised in feedlots here

Some of our pigs are slopped old school with anything to fatten them up, and some are housed together in huge crowded pens and fed better I suppose but they all taste the same to me no matter how they are marketed.

just don' t raise your pigs near a mango tree.

I prefer cut and wrapped for the freezer to be honest.

1998 the Nipa virus which has a mortality rate of about 40% hit Malaysia. There weren't a lot of deaths because the problem was quickly identified( 265 cases ;105 deaths) .There is no known treatment for the virus . It was traced to fruit bats that feasted on mango trees planted around industrial pig farms . Hundreds of thousands of pigs were slaughtered . That contained the outbreak. Periodically there have been outbreaks in India ,and Bangladesh . Turns out the people like a sweet tea made out of date palm sap. The bats also like the sweet sap.

Just this year China slaughtered millions of pigs that were carriers of African swine fever . It is a hemorrhagic disease that affects pigs . To date there have not been transmission to humans . Australia does a good job preventing the smuggling of pork into the country . We need to be as vigilant

we have a different problem here . We have pigs ready to slaughter . But because of C-19 we don't have the capacity to process them . The problem is that pigs continue to grow past their slaughter time and they out grow their barns and start having health problems . But we are looking at the need to cull up to 60-70,000 pigs a day if the meat processing plants do not get back to full capacity .

That's a lot of pork

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we have a different problem here . We have pigs ready to slaughter . But because of C-19 we don't have the capacity to process them . The problem is that pigs continue to grow past their slaughter time and they out grow their barns and start having health problems . But we are looking at the need to cull up to 60-70,000 pigs a day if the meat processing plants do not get back to full capacity .

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What a waste. Seems like there would be a plan B to mitigate disruption in the food supply chain.

yes it is called business as usual

Slaughter and freeze instead of slaughter and bury? Or are all the freezer trucks already stuffed with humans?