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AIBU to think food and cookery shows do not help people?

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NolittleBuddahsorTigerMomshere · 05/01/2013 17:24

I am not talking about helping people to learn new cookery skills here. I am talking about the way in which they provide confusing and contradictory messages. The main example being the implications that we are all poisoning our DCs if we do not feed them Organic, Free Range Hand reared food (esp. meat). So is it any wonder that some parents turn to ready meals and cheaper frozen meats such as nuggets, rather than 'risking' ordinary fresh produce from supermarkets, which seems to be either ignored or maligned by celeb chefs and the media?

Sorry for the rant, but this has been niggling at me recently and boiled over yesterday when I was unlucky enough to catch a Clarrisa Dickson Wright programme on the beeb wanking on about how we should all be eating rare breed British pork, rather than mass produce.

I am very conscious of animal welfare and by the very best we can afford (Small amounts of Waitrose Essential Meat) but it irritates me when people with very large budgets -- JO take note, lecture ordinary struggling parents, who are doing the best they can.

OP posts:
hatgirl · 05/01/2013 21:58

McNewPants2013 think you have misunderstood the whole 'rare breed' thing there. The only thing that is stopping rare breeds dying out is because there is a market for their meat. If there wasn't a market then people wouldn't bother breeding them Hmm and then they really would be stuffed.

(adds to list of slightly strange things people have said about farming)

OP - I think the cookery programmes are just raising awareness about how the demand for cheap food has driven down animal welfare standards - and quite rightly. It is then up to you whether you are happy to keep buying lower welfare cheaper meat or buy more veg and make meat a few times a week treat rather than a nightly thing. There is no comparison between a decent free range cornfed chicken and a £3 tesco chuck pumped full of water.

LRDtheFeministDragon · 05/01/2013 22:04

I think she was joking!

hatgirl · 05/01/2013 22:37

phew! The list is already getting a bit too long to maintain.

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