Chicken Lidl

[Don Veloci]

I'm wondering where Tecsco "Willow Farms" comes from. Used to buy for the dog but there is always a chemical smell straight from fresh opening. Not the case with Aldi or Lidl.

[President Merkin]

Mate of mine is a highly paid engineer working on machines that process eggs, Sorting, packaging that sort of thing. These are installed in battery farms with sometimes a million birds under one roof, Whenever the moral dimension of it comes up, he always points out that if you have billions of people to feed, how else would you do it? He's got a point.

[ambuletz]

Don Veloci said:

I'm wondering where Tecsco "Willow Farms" comes from. Used to buy for the dog but there is always a chemical smell straight from fresh opening. Not the case with Aldi or Lidl.

almost every year there used to be articles around christmas time of people tucking into a roast chicken they bought from tesco only to see green meat.

[FredericRobinson]

andyA700 said:

I was sceptical of this until I read these articles. This is very alarming and the person(s) who allow this s**t need to be put in prison. Why the hell are we importing staple food items from Poland?

Because we consume much more than we produce

[Venisonpie]

ambuletz said:

leef44 said:

It could be in response to a recent Which? magazine survey which said that the source of some of their products and also for Aldi, were a bit vague.

Some googling suggests that the welfare standards of LIDL chicken about a month ago weren't very good, with some having hock burns.

As for ALDI, their frozen munch box has chicken that's come from china. (it says so on the packaging as I've eaten it)

I do think both of the German supermarkets have not yet been subject to the amount of scrutiny they perhaps should. They trade on price but how do they achieve it? Obviously its a broad answer but a large part will be upstream supply chain.

When I previously worked in logistics the distribution culture (if confirmed) had elements that I found challenging.

Edited by Venisonpie on Monday 29th April 12:26

[netherfield]

Without antibiotics there would not be any chicken or eggs in supermarkets, of course the article on misuse is likely another issue altogether.

For as long as man has mass produced chickens nature keeps bringing up a disease to try stop it, Mareks disease, Newcastle disease, Gumboro, Infectious Bronchitis, Fowl pest are just some of these.