Topic: Kofta

[fried]

Well, they're called coquelet in Lidl!

[Peripatetic Phil]

Well, they're called coquelet in Lidl!

And "poussin" in Waitrose, but as far as I am concerned they are too young to be killed and eaten.  Not seeking to start an argument, just felt I had to get it off my chest.

** Phil.

[Secret Santa]

...stuff it into the body cavity of a chicken along with a couple of boiled eggs...

Oh the irony.

[Peripatetic Phil]

I can see your point, Santa, but as you well know, the eggs we boil are sterile ...
** Phil.

[fried]

Well, they're called coquelet in Lidl!

And "poussin" in Waitrose, but as far as I am concerned they are too young to be killed and eaten.  Not seeking to start an argument, just felt I had to get it off my chest.

** Phil.

Is this an ethical stance? I couldn't find any information. Could you clarify? Or is it just that they're too small?

[Peripatetic Phil]

Is this an ethical stance? I couldn't find any information. Could you clarify? Or is it just that they're too small?

Yes, it's an ethical stance, but I don't want to cause an argument.  For me, an animal deserves the right to a decent lifespan, even if it is then to be slaughtered and eaten.  Six weeks (the average age of a hen at slaughter) is far too little anyway, but a poussin is less than a month old.  Surely there should be a limit beyond which killing a baby animal is unacceptable, should there not ?  It is for the same reasons that I do not eat veal ('though there are other aspects of cruelty involved there) and will not order suckling pig, although I will reluctantly eat it if served at a Chinese banquet because it is better that it be eaten than go to waste.

** Phil, who ought to be a vegetarian but who is in fact almost entirely carniverous in his eating habits.

[fried]

Don't worry, you're entirely entitled to your opinions. I was just interested in the reasons. You're right though, you should really be a vegetarian.

[Secret Santa]

For me, an animal deserves the right to a decent lifespan, even if it is then to be slaughtered and eaten.

I'm of the same opinion Phil. It's the way we carnivores seek some redemption for our wicked ways.