Agree with everything said here! I saw the Jamie Oliver thing last year about the sausages and it really bothered me, and a few years before I think it was Gillian McKeith (pardon the spelling, the divvy one from You Are What You Eat) who gave a rather graphic description of what's in burgers...killed me! Couldn't eat them for months!!
I really can't stand anything other than 'proper' meat though, I can't stand the thought of the fat in my mouth
Up in the NE my Mum now only buys sausages from a butcher that sells only fresh meat...in fact if you go past at the right time of day you can still see the animals out the back
Like Anji says, expensive but well worth it