tesco, birds eye, iceland..etc chicken from thailand! rant!

[mklanch]

so about a year ago i used to go to tesco to get a meal deal pretty ofter after working hard up my allotment. i would mainly get it because i wanted the drink and for £3 was a pretty good deal.
i also found the chicken to be pretty grey and when i ate the chicken wraps would always get an upset tummy. so one day i was munching on my chicken wrap and was reading the packaging and read "chicken from Thailand". i was completely shocked.
i then started to check all the food i get and where it is sourced from.
most places get their chicken from Thailand!
i wouldn't mind so much but hardly any of these shops state on the packaging where their meat/chicken is sourced from. so most people eat it unwillingly.
i just found out birdseye, iceland, asda and tesco mainly get their chicken from Thailand!
i cant be the only one that doesnt want to eat chicken from Thailand!

It might be British chicken. Just went to Thailand to get processed and came back again.

If you want cheap food you have to accept it could be from anywhere. They do put where the product is made or for fresh produce where it is from, because they have to. Alternatively, buy British meat from a local butcher and pay a little more...

No, most of the chicken is from Britain, Ireland or Europe, but is sent to be processed in Thailand. If you want local produce then you need to buy the meat unprocessed and cook it yourself.

Why would we send food to Thailand to be processed? Seriously isn't it cheaper to process it in the UK?

It gets added to local ingredients there, it is easier to do it that way then send the stuff here in raw form. It is a small %.

What @delilahbucket says is right. Buy local and start getting used to paying a bit more. We will all have to soon. Truth is you get much more for your money - when was the last time you bought a chicken breast from a local butcher and compared that size to, say, the supermarkets?

Oh I've been talking about this for ages.

People don't care unfortunately. Or can't care because their funds don't stretch far enough for them to care.

I'm absolutely sure that in decades to come human kind will look back on the horrors of the food industry 1970- 203........something and say how did we allow that to happen.

Meat is a wonderful food that deserves proper respect. It shouldn't be something that is so cheap and plentiful that people are able to throw it away as if it was potato peelings for any reason. Animals we rear for meat deserve the best lives and best deaths we can give them.

Most pub restaurant suppliers use Thai chicken also

Yes I know this is a zombie thread. But talking to a head honcho at public health today GI INFECTIONS are rising at an alarming rate leading to hospital admissions.

Stopped buying ready meals ,wraps etc since I found out they were using Thai chicken, hate the idea I want British produce.

I'm about to disappoint you then.

UK chicken is sent to Thailand for processing. Your ready made sandwich, wrap, etc is prepared, packaged and sent back. Usually by Vietnamese workers the Thais use

How ridiculous 😡

You are not the only one. I don't buy it. I noticed it when I was going to buy a Tesco ready meal couple years ago and I was aghast that people could unwittingly be eating animal flesh from the other side of the world from unknown sources. So what, if its standard is approved, there is approved UK and EU source animal flesh.The cost argument doesn't wash with me. It's more about the profit. It's bad that a company doesn't respect the integrity of it's customers dietary requirements.