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Chicken Out!

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Kilworthfox

Kilworthfox

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What's this bollocks?

Channel 4! Watch this programme as it will change your views on chicken and how they are mass produced, and then packaged to confuse by supermarkets. I will still eat chicken but only free range after seeing this prog :thumbup:

Simi

Simi

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Channel 4! Watch this programme as it will change your views on chicken and how they are mass produced, and then packaged to confuse by supermarkets. I will still eat chicken but only free range after seeing this prog :thumbup:

Boo at those programmes.

Kilworthfox

Kilworthfox

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Boo at those programmes.

Watch it then tell everyone how you feel then! Seriously, I too was defensive as I love eating chicken as you know! Now though I would only eat free range. This is not about not eating chicken. It just informs the public how the mass produce of chicken has diminished qualities of our food and the life experiance of the chicken.

If i had to describe the way the battery chickens were treated I would say they get as much respect as rats. Would you really eat rats? I would have to be pretty desperate! BTW I don't feel I have gone too far with that comment :thumbup:

James.

James.

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A phrase that does have merit for many but not for me. I can't live like that.

And I respect you for that. At times I wish I was guided by the same moral compass.

Thing is I focus my worrying on human suffering and how I might make a difference to that, however small. Animals come much further down my list of priorities. That's not to say I agree with cruelty and battery farming, just that I don't care enough to find out more about it and/or change my eating habits.

It's a bit of a c**tish thing to say but there you go.

Kilworthfox

Kilworthfox

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And I respect you for that. At times I wish I was guided by the same moral compass.

Thing is I focus my worrying on human suffering and how I might make a difference to that, however small. Animals come much further down my list of priorities. That's not to say I agree with cruelty and battery farming, just that I don't care enough to find out more about it and/or change my eating habits.

It's a bit of a c**tish thing to say but there you go.

Don't get me wrong it is a chicken not a person!

However I want to put the best quality of food into my body. If that means eating free range, or organic etc then so be it. I don't judge anyone for their eating habits as I certainly was not one to speak with such powers of judgement. However learning has enhanced my knowledge of what i am putting into my bodyand I have made an informed choice. All I do is to encourage those who don't have all of the facts on this issue to get them then decide and not live in the dark so to speak.

AoWW

AoWW

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Don't get me wrong it is a chicken not a person!

However I want to put the best quality of food into my body. If that means eating free range, or organic etc then so be it. I don't judge anyone for their eating habits as I certainly was not one to speak with such powers of judgement. However learning has enhanced my knowledge of what i am putting into my bodyand I have made an informed choice. All I do is to encourage those who don't have all of the facts on this issue to get them then decide and not live in the dark so to speak.

Yeah, them burgers outside the Walkers are quality! :giggle::whistle:

lildave3

lildave3

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Channel 4! Watch this programme as it will change your views on chicken and how they are mass produced, and then packaged to confuse by supermarkets. I will still eat chicken but only free range after seeing this prog :thumbup:

I beg to differ.

lildave3

lildave3

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:laugh: Love it.

Don't forget the paper.

I shall set a reminder on the phone.

Which means I shall get it, then leave it on the table before I leave.

stez

stez

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i watched the hughes chicken run part of this series, and much as i like channel fours chefs, the ivory tower mentality of hugh F-W and jamie oliver is really beginning to grate on me now, i'm no tw@t and i know how (most) chickens are raised, and although it's not very nice, and in an ideal world they would all live lovely fluffy lives, but i care more about feeding my family on a very very low budget than i do about the welfare of a chicken, and as much as i hate using this argument (as they have all earned their money fairly and squarely) it is very easy for them to lord it over me (as thats how it feels) and make me feel bad, when they can afford to buy fluffy raised chickens, or cloud based cows and such like.

coale39

coale39

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If everyone chose free range chicken, the price would come down. I bet 75+% of people that buy Standard chicken could afford the extra 2 pounds in their weekly food budget.

James.

James.

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If everyone chose free range chicken, the price would come down. I bet 75+% of people that buy Standard chicken could afford the extra 2 pounds in their weekly food budget.

That kind of goes against the laws of supply and demand doesn't it?

Trumpet

Trumpet

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If everyone chose free range chicken, the price would come down. I bet 75+% of people that buy Standard chicken could afford the extra 2 pounds in their weekly food budget.

Extra £2 for the chicken.

Then the extra couple of quid for the beef. Dont forget to save the lambs...

TBH, go back a few thousand years, actually a few hundred thousand years or whatever and we'd eat anything. Wouldn't matter how big it was.

stez

stez

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If everyone chose free range chicken, the price would come down. I bet 75+% of people that buy Standard chicken could afford the extra 2 pounds in their weekly food budget.

i agree with that bit, but free range will only ever go down a bit due to the amount of space required to produce one bird, in comparison to 'the other way'.

actually all this is immaterial (for me) cos i hardly ever buy chicken

coale39

coale39

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Extra £2 for the chicken.

Then the extra couple of quid for the beef. Dont forget to save the lambs...

TBH, go back a few thousand years, actually a few hundred thousand years or whatever and we'd eat anything. Wouldn't matter how big it was.

At least it was organic..... :whistle:

i agree with that bit, but free range will only ever go down a bit due to the amount of space required to produce one bird, in comparison to 'the other way'.

actually all this is immaterial (for me) cos i hardly ever buy chicken

Maybe everyone should just pay a bit more for chicken? :dunno:

Edit: I just see it as a govermental issue. In the same way you cant mistreat your pets because you might get prosecuted, companies shouldn't be allowed to mistreat chickens.

stez

stez

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At least it was organic..... :whistle:

Maybe everyone should just pay a bit more for chicken? :dunno:

and go without other things? the thing is (like has been said further up the thread, if you've read it) some people can't afford to buy fancy-dan chicken, without missing out on other supplies.

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