[paraclete]

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

[jlisenbe]

Beef brisket.

[talaniman]

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

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

[tomder55]

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 .

[paraclete]

this just shows the differences in our linage

[tomder55]

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

[paraclete]

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

[jlisenbe]

Is pork not eaten in Australia?

[paraclete]

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

[talaniman]

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!

[paraclete]

pigs are raised in feedlots here

[talaniman]

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.

[tomder55]

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

[talaniman]

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

[tomder55]

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 Turns out the people like a sweet tea made out of date palm sap.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

[tomder55]

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 .

[paraclete]

That's a lot of pork

[talaniman]

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 .

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

[paraclete]

yes it is called business as usual

[talaniman]

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