Where are all the chickens?
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So what was the need for the initial aggressive response and name calling? I was simply questioning why they don't say on their website that ALL of their chicken comes from the same, well regulated source. Without that stated people can start to make assumptions which, if wrong, they should put right.
If you had answered initially with.... that's not true because I have been involved in production etc etc then that would have been all good and we would have learnt something without the need for me to ask about your credentials and you throwing around childish insults.
If you had answered initially with.... that's not true because I have been involved in production etc etc then that would have been all good and we would have learnt something without the need for me to ask about your credentials and you throwing around childish insults.
craigjm said:
So what was the need for the initial aggressive response and name calling? I was simply questioning why they don't say on their website that ALL of their chicken comes from the same, well regulated source. Without that stated people can start to make assumptions which, if wrong, they should put right.
If you had answered initially with.... that's not true because I have been involved in production etc etc then that would have been all good and we would have learnt something without the need for me to ask about your credentials and you throwing around childish insults.
Name calling childish insults Dear God( I called you Alan Partridge that is really bad), I was brusk because your originally statement said thisIf you had answered initially with.... that's not true because I have been involved in production etc etc then that would have been all good and we would have learnt something without the need for me to ask about your credentials and you throwing around childish insults.
''A great amount of cheap chicken for places like the 3 pieces for £2 brigade comes in from Thailand and Brazil etc and is raised in very poor condition and injected with water etc.''
Which as I said is a load of b
ks.Edited by The Spruce goose on Sunday 24th September 12:29
TooMany2cvs said:
750m chickens slaughtered in the UK each year, 94% intensively reared.
Here in Herefordshire, there's a lot of intensive chicken units. From the outside, they're just very large, very smelly sheds.
North Herefordshire's just as bad. See how many you can see here. https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Madley,+Herefo...Here in Herefordshire, there's a lot of intensive chicken units. From the outside, they're just very large, very smelly sheds.
And you pretty much don't want to own a house within 500m of one. 700,000 chickens on a 35-day cycle is a lot of chickens
t to get rid of.The Spruce goose said:
name calling childish insults dear god, I was brusk because your originally statement said this
''A great amount of cheap chicken for places like the 3 pieces for £2 brigade comes in from Thailand and Brazil etc and is raised in very poor condition and injected with water etc.''
Which as I said is a load of bks.
Is it? Note that I never said KFC. I was referring to the likes of chicken cottage etc where you can get two pieces with fries and a drink for around £2.50. Were you supplying all of these cheap take outs too? ''A great amount of cheap chicken for places like the 3 pieces for £2 brigade comes in from Thailand and Brazil etc and is raised in very poor condition and injected with water etc.''
Which as I said is a load of b
ks.Intensive farmed chickens is a very depressing industry to be in. The rife of salmonella and campylobacter flocks is very high, the amount of anti bacterial supplements they are pumped full of is massive. The chickens fight each other i and end up with broken wings , the st st is not properly cleaned out.
t st is not properly cleaned out.TwigtheWonderkid said:
I heard on the radio that if you applied inflation to the cost of a chicken in the 1930s, a chicken today would cost about £40. I think a whole chicken is about £4 in the supermarket.
I guess in those days chickens were reared on farms and had coups and were fed corn and treated with a modicum of decency. Labour intensive work.
Same for many foodstuffs though. The meat we might use for a single meal + chuck the leftovers would have fed a family for a week then through clever use.I guess in those days chickens were reared on farms and had coups and were fed corn and treated with a modicum of decency. Labour intensive work.
The rather large and properly free range chicken breasts from my local farm shop work out about £1 or so-ish each IIRC, I dont think they're massively more expensive than low grade supermarket chicken.
craigjm said:
Is it? Note that I never said KFC. I was referring to the likes of chicken cottage etc where you can get two pieces with fries and a drink for around £2.50. Were you supplying all of these cheap take outs too?
Yes this line is wholesale birds, usually older than what could be sold to retail. it would be a mixture of welfare birds, but no different to kfc they were still fresh, same as the breasts and wings. The only thing we froze where drumsticks and legs for romania and wings for kfc. Breast sometimes but rare as it is a loss.
silentbrown said:
garyhun said:
Free range for me at a minimum.
The problem can be finding it. Our local supermarkets seem to have hardly any on the shelves.If free range is not available I go without. Today's Sunday roast is meat free for that reason.
garyhun said:
Free range for me at a minimum.
Unless you know the farm it's come from, don't bother: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/horrifying-tr...BJG1 said:
They're kept in squalid, disgusting conditions wading through their own st and dead friends for a month or so before being killed. Don't eat it if you consider yourself a humane person.
It is hellish. Though to be fair, we keep a few and wading through their own st and dead friends for a month or so before being killed. Don't eat it if you consider yourself a humane person.t seems to represent a jolly good time. Horrible bds they are. The state of the ones which come out of the battery farms is appalling though.I'm convinced that in 100+ years, people will look at the way we intensively farmed animals and not be able to get their heads around how we could have ever thought it was remotely acceptable, much in the same way we look back at the slave trade and the holocaust.
It's absolutely shameful. And I'm not even a vegetarian.
It's absolutely shameful. And I'm not even a vegetarian.
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