£8.10 on a flipping chicken!

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Went to Lidl yesterday to spend as little as possible on a small shop to get us through the weekend. Needed a chicken for Sunday dinner and as a vegetarian I didn’t want to hang around looking at them all. I was sure I picked one from the shelf labelled as £3.75. DM has just informed me that it was a free range fancy chicken costing £8.10 on the label! Already in the oven. It had better be a bloody gorgeous chicken for the people eating it! I don’t even benefit!

What’s been your most costly shopping mistake? Make me feel less stupid please!

A large latte in Starbucks is around £4... how can anyone think that buying an entire chicken for less than the cost of a latte is right I don't know. I don't agree that the quality of our food has diminished, but the cost of buying decent food has certainly gone up. Its easier than its ever been to buy decent food, but it costs more

Adopting a homeless animal is certainly in line with veganism.

Now you have a choice; deny an obligate carnivore meat
or contribute to animal slaughter because it's necessary to keep the adopted animal healthy

or leave that adopted animal to very likely die or live in misery in a shelter

So, which of those three is the better thing to do, in your opinion?

You missed an option there, which is to humanely euthanise a creature created purely to exist as a human plaything. That's the one I would choose, partly because it would spare the slaughter of the many other creatures created simply to be killed for meat to keep that one alive.

No, there weren't where I live.

That doesn't mean they did not exist.

They did.

If you don't want to be judged think about what you post before you post then, eh? If you're posting your opinions online and other people disagree strongly then of course you're going to be judged, OP! 🙄
I stand by my point that I am far more disgusted at you as a vegetarian for what you said in your op and subsequent post than I would be by a meat eater with the same attitude, but most of the meat-eaters on this thread have a much better respect for animals than you.

She wasn't asking about animal rights, she anecdotally told a story about when you accidentally pay more for something.

Here's a thought people who can regularly go a buy a large latte for £4 are probably not the same people who.will be spending £3.75 on a chicken
People have different budgets
Its all very well feeling morally superior but why should less privileged people not eat meat ?

Cats lived long before humans, how embarrassingly uneducated are you!
Your comment makes no sense, so the cat should have been killed because it evolved eating meat, yet humans evolved as omnivores but choose to eat meat yet they’re allowed to exist 🤔

That’s a thought, not a fact! It has no relevance!

Why because you don't agree with it?

You don't need meat to have a healthy diet.

That comment makes people think. Chicken should not be cheaper than a drink in a coffee shop chain.

Why are you a vegetarian OP?

This thread is absolutely classic Mumsnet.

So poor people shouldn't eat meat nice ,🙄
Yes I'm sure pulses and lentils will.stop.people from starving but they are only appetisng if you like them

The point is chicken should not be cheaper than a drink in a coffee shop.

No the point is that you and people like you think that people should only eat meat if they can afford the free range organic chickens that cost£15 or whatever and the rest of us should be greatful.eating lentils 🙄

So explain to me why a coffee shop coffee should be dearer than a chicken?

That is the whole point of this thread. Why chicken is so cheap.

Air miles I guess?
But yeah I'm not going to buy cheap chicken. Chicken costs however much it costs. I can't afford many foods frequently, lamb, salmon, a massive cake.

Cats as a species existed before humans, sure. But, (and I find this embarrassing to have to point out to you): wild cats are not the same as pets. How ridiculous to suggest domesticated pet cats could possibly have existed before humans decided to domesticate them.

"Did you know?The domestic cat originated from the African wildcat subspecies, Felis sylvestris lybica, around 10,000 years ago, and subsequently spread with humans throughout the world. It can hybridise with the wildcat, causing loss of genetic diversity." (quotation from the Wildlife Trust website.)

No one is feeding wild cats fancy food made by humans from the carcasses of less fortunate animals bred by humans for this purpose, letting them shit in the neighbours gardens and encouraging them to sleep on the furniture as far as I know, though I am clearly embarrassingly uneducated on the subject. Eager to be proved wrong here.

"Domestic cats (Felis catus) are predators that humans have introduced globally, and that have been listed among the 100 worst non-native invasive species in the world. Free-ranging cats on islands have caused or contributed to 33 (14%) of the modern bird, mammal and reptile extinctions recorded by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List4." (quotation from nature.com website)

And these are cats who are also being fed minced-up badly-treated large mammals whose rearing contributes to the further destruction of natural habitat. BY HUMANS

It's morally wrong. :(

I don't know I don't set the prices ask.the supermarket, s

A coffee shop drink should never be dearer than a chicken.
That is the whole point of this thread. Why is chicken so cheap.

It's wrong. On so many levels.

Good for you I however will.continue ti.buy food at a price I can afford .

I never said I agreed, you’re making assumptions that people who buy £4 lattes, can afford more expensive meat. Do you not understand that some people budget to afford more expensive meat and forgo those luxury items.

So you keep.saying its also morally wrong trying to.make people who are less privileged than others feel.bad about buying food at a price they can afford .