To not want to eat chicken again - until the laws are tightened.

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www.theguardian.com/business/2017/sep/29/food-regulator-chicken-supplier-food-safety-dates-2-sisters-food-group

2SFG seems to supply to so many supermarkets. The video is a disgrace.

From the article: A response from 2SFG

It added: “We also successfully operate in one of the most tightly controlled and highly regulated food sectors in the world. We are subject to multiple and frequent unannounced audits from the FSA, BRC, Red Tractor, independent auditors as well as our customers. By example, our facility in the West Midlands under investigation received nine audits (five unannounced) in the months of July and August alone.”

Does anyone know how to find a decent local butcher? I've tried a couple but the quality seemed worse than the supermarket. I'm in Newcastle/North Tyneside area.
DH, annoyingly, won't countenance meat-free meals and we eat chicken several times a week...

So glad that I don't eat chicken.

Holy

Try this website

www.findabutcher.co.uk/

It had my local butcher on.

Longdistance
They also own a fish processing company - unfortunately I don't know this company produce for now as the person I know who worked there left not long after 2Sisters took over. I know they used to supply to Wetherspoons though.

As stated we have high standard of food production. We have best kept pigs in world probably.
We did that on our own and we are not going to go backwards on pigs. We understand pigs are intelligent sensitive tive animals. We have better standard than the eu and we have better standard than the us.

What we need to concentrate on is vigourous testing for what we have and why are we relying on under cover journos for alerting us to this.

Where do butchers get their meet from?

Where do butchers get their meet from?

Cows, sheep ...

Don't for one minute think local butchers don't do this or something similar! They do.
Very little goes in the bin 😉.

I used to buy chicken from Lidl sometimes I would use it the day I got it and it was off smelled awful it stunk out my whole kitchen I've took many chickens back to the shop. I don't shop there anymore I go to Morrisons and that seems to be better

Elandon look up the recent Hogwood Farms scandal, they supply Tesco, for some of the conditions pigs are being kept in. It's disgusting.

I've heard that about Morrison's too. Think, but not sure, that the chain started out as a butcher's shop.

Lurking stop it!

Butcher's usually source from local farms, who will send meat to a local slaughter house. It's expensive, say 10 pound above the average cost, but if you don't have a good supermarket local to you, it is worth it.

My local butcher is now taking Xmas orders!

Our butcher buys pigs from his friend the pig farmer. There are pictures of the butcher cuddling some piglets on the wall. He was proud the day that those piglets made it to his slab. Can you tell I live in the sticks.

Thanks Ozzde will do.

No personal insult intended BeALert , I meant the bottom end of their food production industry. Nobody really wants chlorine rinsed chicken (do they?), it is not necessary.

I guess it's a case of we get what we pay for. I've accepted that we get our meat from the local butcher (who can clearly tell me which local farms it has come from), and I pay a lot more than in the supermarket. I just have to cut back on other things and try to eat veggie a couple of times a week.

The owner of this company is the father of that guy who got jailed for leaving a baby with permanent brain damage after hitting her whilst dangerous driving and got 21 f**king months for it and was also jailed for glassing someone in a bar. After that I tried to boycott their food as best as I could so hopefully it hasn't affected me.

No personal insult intended BeALert , I meant the bottom end of their food production industry. Nobody really wants chlorine rinsed chicken (do they?), it is not necessary.

S'OK - I'm not insulted :-) Just thought it was funny the timing of the posts.

I agree about US factory farming - it's appalling.

The only plus side of it in a way is that it's got so bad that people like me are so horrified we're thinking much harder about what meat we buy. I'm in rural New England and am surrounded by farms that raise meat in a fairly ethical way. It's now really easy to get good meat at farm shops or farmer's markets. I can drive less than a mile and buy ethically raised chicken, lamb, pork, beef. It's expensive, but then it really should be. We shouldn't be eating cheap meat.

OTOH a bit of me dies when I'm in our local supermarket and I see my well-off friends buy the cheap eggs instead of the cage-free ones. I know the cage-free ones still are probably pretty dodgy, but I cannot bring myself to buy cheap eggs here knowing the conditions the chickens lived in.