John Penny & Sons invites Yorkshire Post into the abattoir

Posted on: Nov 11 2010

John talked at length about his passion for the animals and his business:

"I'm as soft as a brush when it comes to animals," he says, checking on a cow, who calved just a few days earlier. "But we eat meat and animals have to be killed. It's in our interest to treat our animals humanely and here we have nothing to hide and a lot to be proud of. As a country, we've become disconnected from the food we eat. People should know what goes into rearing the meat they buy. They should know how it's killed and if they come here I guarantee it won't put them off. In fact it will make them value the quality of meat they put into their mouths."
 

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