No more lard?!

Livelongandprosper

Shropshirelass wrote: »

Tesco value lard 39p for 250 gm contains pork lard and 'natural antioxidant', - not sure what that last is. Think I may stick to using butter, at least I know what that is.

You think you do


Unless you are buying butter from grass fed cows, you are buying butter from cows that are being fed a commercial concentrate. The cheapest being that that is made from by products from the human food chain


It's not for nothing that BSE was so wide spread within the uk

Pop_Up_Pirate

Livelongandprosper wrote: »

You think you do


Unless you are buying butter from grass fed cows, you are buying butter from cows that are being fed a commercial concentrate. The cheapest being that that is made from by products from the human food chain


It's not for nothing that BSE was so wide spread within the uk

Exactly.
Some of the stuff that is fed to animals is disgusting and it's no wonder the nation is full of people with 'conditions'.

We can't rely on the governments and the food industry to do what's right. They are led by profit and lobbying.

The vegans/vegetarians have gone a long way to ruining the health of the nation by demanding that beef dripping/lard be replaced by cooking oils for frying in many places.
Great for the veggie, who chooses not to eat animal products, but lets face it, they could have chosen that by not eating said food to begin with.

It's not so great for everyone else who now ingests 25 times more cooking oil then they did before and cooking oils are lethal to health. The veggies are also consuming the oils.
Their quest for healthy eating has not worked in this case.

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I have always used lard in pastry along with some stork it makes the best pastry ever, use very little to fry with though as I prefer olive oil or butter .

Out,_Vile_Jelly

Pop_Up_Pirate wrote: »

The veggies are also consuming the oils.
Their quest for healthy eating has not worked in this case.

The one thing I've learnt from being a vegetarian for 25 plus years is that being shouty and dogmatic about your diet converts precisely nobody.

Livelongandprosper

JackieO wrote: »

I have always used lard in pastry along with some stork it makes the best pastry ever, use very little to fry with though as I prefer olive oil or butter .

Same here Jackie. I remember posting a recipe for pastry a while back and was pulled about using lard, being told trex was better for you

I've a jar in the fridge which is the last of the goose fat I harvested at Christmas. Can't beat the flavour. Going to fry tonight's bubble in it. Yum yum

Pop_Up_Pirate

Out,_Vile_Jelly wrote: »

The one thing I've learnt from being a vegetarian for 25 plus years is that being shouty and dogmatic about your diet converts precisely nobody.

Vegans and vegetarians being "shouty" have managed to change whole industries and the way food is cooked.

Take McDonalds for instance. I don't eat there but millions of people do. They used to fry their fries in beef dripping, which is a natural product.
But the veggies weren't happy about that. They wanted it changing....to manufactured cooking oils, made with carcinogenic hexane.

Now fair enough if veggies don't want to eat animal products. Just don't eat them. But they have changed every persons diet for the sake of their own beliefs.

It isn't just McD's either.

Manufactured cooking oils are the main reason why our Omega 6 consumption has sky rocketed. This is not good for anyone and is contributing to mass chronic illness and brain issues.
The ratio between omega 3 and omega 6 should be 1:1. It is now above 1:15.
Cooking oils are poison.

As a lobbying group, veggies have not done the nation any favours whatsoever.

Izadora

Pop_Up_Pirate wrote: »

Vegans and vegetarians being "shouty" have managed to change whole industries and the way food is cooked

It's not being shouty that changed the food industry so much as vegetarians following your advice of "just don't eat them" regarding animal products.

Using your example of McDonald's, if more people objected to using cooking oils than beef dripping then they would use beef dripping. It's nothing to do with appeasing vegetarians and everything to do with which choice is going to make them the most money.

LameWolf

Out,_Vile_Jelly wrote: »

The one thing I've learnt from being a vegetarian for 25 plus years is that being shouty and dogmatic about your diet converts precisely nobody.

I agree; and in any case, I feel it's not my place to dictate what others should eat. All I ask is to be informed if what I am about to eat is going to make me ill - one time I had some roast spuds at a friend's house, and was very poorly afterwards; I only subsequently discovered they'd been cooked in goose fat.

seanyboi

Just been to my local onestop shop 50m away up the road and they've stopped stocking lard too! Thank you for that, my roasties tonight will be exceptionally bland 😕

pattypan4

I bought lard last week, it is still about. Half lard plus half butter= the most delicious pastry