to ask MEAT EATERS if you buy free range or standard chicken?

[Granllanog]

I got attacked on my last thread for saying I buy standard supermarket chicken. Considering only 4% of all of the chicken produced in the UK is free-range and only 1% is organic I don't think I am unusual in doing this?

YABU = I'm a meat eater and only ever eat/buy free-range chicken.
YANBU = I buy standard chicken.

[quote IsabellesMissingSock]@Comedycook I wasn't sneering. If you want to infer that from my posts, perhaps you're just projecting. Dunno 🤷🏻‍♀️[/quote]
Projecting?

Your comment...

"you enjoy your skanky cheap carcasses"

Nasty, sarcastic, sneering. You sound quite a peach...jeering at those less well off than yourself.

Just lovely

@Comedycook well, they are by definition skanky and cheap 🤣 just stating facts here

[quote IsabellesMissingSock]@Comedycook I wasn't sneering. If you want to infer that from my posts, perhaps you're just projecting. Dunno 🤷🏻‍♀️[/quote]
Your comment was aimed at me, and it absolutely felt like sneering.

Oh and I'm amazed how many people have local farms ...

[quote IsabellesMissingSock]@Comedycook well, they are by definition skanky and cheap 🤣 just stating facts here[/quote]
Loads of things are cheap

They're cheap because that's all some people can afford.

Do you generally go round jeering at people who buy cheap things because that's all they can afford?

Not jeering. I'd rather go without than buy cheap chicken.

@IsabellesMissingSock

Not jeering. I'd rather go without than buy cheap chicken.

Then you do that. Don't tell other people to do the same.

I don't think I did tell anyone to do that?

Standard whole chicken,free range eggs

@IsabellesMissingSock

I don't think I did tell anyone to do that?

So what was the point of your comment then?

Whatever is in Lidl!

Thanks @forinborin. Food for thought!

@Comedycook which one?

[quote IsabellesMissingSock]@Comedycook which one?[/quote]
you enjoy your skanky cheap carcasses

@Comedycook well it's not an instruction to buy expensive better-reared chicken, which is what @XenoBitch suggested it was. People's lack of comprehension is not really my problem.

@IsabellesMissingSock

I don't think I did tell anyone to do that?

You said this to me

So why not buy cruelty free alternatives then?

[quote IsabellesMissingSock]**@Comedycook* well it's not an instruction to buy expensive better-reared chicken, which is what @XenoBitch* suggested it was. People's lack of comprehension is not really my problem.[/quote]
So you just said it to be rude...gotcha.

@LibrariesGiveUsPower45321

YABU. Have you seen the living standards of “free range” chicken? Shoulder to shoulder in a giant barn. No cages, but not massively better.

Exactly. Battery chicken, for either eggs or meat, doesn't exist in the UK, it was outlawed years ago, so you have chicken that's kept in barns to various standards but, while people buying 'free range' chickens from supermarkets will be imaging their chickens pecking around the grass under trees, the reality is that the difference between free range and lower welfare chicken is that you might have 10% fewer chickens in the barn and there's a couple of small doors in the corner that have been left open. Technically the chickens could get out, but most of them don't.

@IsabellesMissingSock This link will help you with the definitions of words.

With regards to all meat and fish, I buy the best - most ethical - i can afford.

@Xenobitch that's what'a known as a question, which is a different concept to an instruction.

[quote Bobsyer]@IsabellesMissingSock This link will help you with the definitions of words.[/quote]
Thanks, although I am not sure which definition you think I am struggling with. Care to elaborate?

I mostly go for free range for both chicken and eggs. However if it isn't available, then I'll buy the standard.

Of course lots of people have local farms/farm shops. 🙄🙄 Whole swathes of this country are rural, farming areas. Maybe not where you are...but we live right on the edge of proper farming country.