To want to know where the chicken I buy comes from

[bijou3]

One of the big supermarket chains buys its chicken from Thailand and uses it in its sandwiches I find this really off putting as I don?t think that Thailand will not have the same strict hygiene laws that the UK or EU have. The supermarkets should label where the country of origin is on their produce as I like to buy British as much as possible. AIBU?

i've just had a quick check at the (limited i'll confess) chicken products in my freezer and they are all labelled with country of origin, and slaughter

so YABU for not using this system already

lol

The country of origin is not labelled when the chicken is used in sandwiches or ready meals.

then don't buy ready meals?

I like to buy only British meat too, so I make our sandwiches. It's cheaper, too.

and in fact, OP - you've given yourself the answer in your question

if the UK and EU have strict labelling guidlines, then you're almost 100% guaranteed that anything NOT labelled is not from UK or EU - process of elimination innit?

YANBU, it ought to be labelled.

Since its not, then making your own may be the way to go.

I don?t often buy ready meals but sometimes I have to get a sandwich from this particular supermarket for my lunch. I would just like to know that the food I eat is not from a country half way round the world. Also there is still a ban in place on imported fresh meat until June 2012 so the chicken in the sandwiches has been cooked in Thailand and flown into the UK so its hardly what I would call fresh.

do you buy bananas, OP?

Of course I buy bananas but there is a big difference between buying food that has been cooked in another country and sold as freshly made when in fact it is not.

Then don't buy chicken sandwiches.

Screw hygeine, what about welfare standards?

BTW, which supermarket is it?

what exactly is your beef? (ha! see what i did there )

is it the origin of foodstuffs, hygiene or labelling fresh food whne it's not?

i'm confused?

i brought up the bananas because they are hardly 'fresh', they've been sweating in a container for around 28 days before it hits the supermarket

28 days?

The point is that I believe I have been fooled into thinking that I am buying produce that has been made freshly in the UK, when in fact the chicken has come from a banned country, the chicken has not been declared safe by the appropriate authorities as of yet. It?s my understanding that the supermarket has got round the ban by shipping in cooked meat.

Bananas have tough skin to protect them from bacteria Chicken cooked in another country does not.

Which supermarket is this? T, S, A or M?

I'd imagine that all supermarkets do this, or v similar. People want to pay as little as possible for food, and this is how it happens.

T and A. Also Mc D and subway

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-429303/Families-risk-toxic-imported-foods.html

There's some info on it here. OP, if you want to pay the minimum amount of money for the animal which has been kept in awful conditions, abused and then killed for your pleasure it seems that the problems you describe are the risks you take. I'd call it karma personally.

Graham I?m on your side I only buy free range organic chicken but occasionally I buy a sandwich (I won?t any more) from T.

OP, I can't believe that your only worry about buying animal products from Asia is hygiene. Do you not give a shit about animal welfare?

you haven't been fooled at all, the labels are there (or not)

you say you only buy free range organic chicken, but raise a thread about cheap/imported foods being used in ready meals and pre-packed sarnies

How do you know the chicken was cooked in Thailand?