A medium chicken out of asda, guess how much??

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Honestly, i nearly landed on my arse

I’m not following your argument because surely it’s applicable at all prices.

£50 for a supermarket chicken? “It cost the chicken more”.

£500 for a supermarket chicken? “It cost the chicken more”.

I agree that food is, and has long been, too cheap, incidentally.

Do you really think that's a reasonable price for raising a chicken, slaughtering it, plucking and gutting i, wrapping it in plastic and transporting it in cold storage to a supermarket? Jesus wept. What do you think the farmer makes on it?

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this was the price a couple of months ago, have you been living under a rock?

So basically only peoop!e who.can afford organic ,hand reared,chicken should be allowed to.eat it?I
It's all very well.having principles when you can afford to be concerned about the welfare of chickens ,people still.have to.eat .

£8

But they don't need to eat meat every day or even ever.

I'm assuming the people who want chickens to cost more are in a privileged position and not one of the many queuing for foodbanks or massively struggling to put food on the table.

They are only £4.50 in Tesco.

I earn barely over the national minimum wage. I also don't eat meat. You don't have to be rich to give a shit about animal welfare.

No; the only chicken, or indeed any meat, that should be available is high-welfare. The welfare of an animal should rank higher than our want (and it is a want, I am not a vegetarian but I know I could live without meat) to eat it regularly.

People do still have to eat, but they don't have to eat animals which have suffered atrocious conditions for the sole purpose of making them affordable.

No that's really simplistic. A bit like saying that only those in poverty buy cheap factory bred meat without thinking about the consequences for food production, public health and the environment.

The answer to food poverty is not driving farmers out of business and shitting up our rivers.

I always think meat should be a whole lot more expensive than it is. It's a whole life that we want for £3 after all. Rather just eat meat once a week and pay for something that's had a bit of a life first.

I have said this before and I don't mean it to sound like a dig at the OP at all, but the UK is going to have to eat like Asia. Meat is always a side, not the main, and supplemented with veggies and pulses.

I know several meat eaters who absolutely will not eat chicken products. How can an animal be reared, fed, killed and sold for so little?

Poor chicken-licken and hen pen. It shouldn't be like this.

Yes.

No you don't have to.eat meat ever ,we are going through a cost of living crisis ,life is incredibly tough for lots of people i inluding me , I don't want to.eat a vegetarian diet ,life's miserable enough right now

Indeed. I earn a good wage but hardly ever eat beef as the high welfare stuff is expensive and rightly so. So it is a few times a year treat at most. I eat beef mince a bit more but ensure it is stretched out with the addition of beans, vegetables etc.. I can get about 6 meals out of 500g of beef mince.

That's still too little to pay the farmer a decent wage and to ensure the chicken has a reasonable life.

I'm assuming you can afford to have these lovely principles🙄

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Same. A whole animal for that price is not unreasonable. Plus considering the additional issues with avian flu.

I know it's a MN joke, but you can get so much out of a whole chicken. I bought a large organic chicken recently to roast. dh and ds said it tasted so much better than the usual chicken, I'm vegetarian so can't comment. I then boiled the carcass and used that to make risotto the next day with a small amount of the left over chicken as well. The rest was eaten over days in sandwiches, stirfrys etc.

OP, do you know how broiler chickens are ''produced'' in this country? They ''live'' for between 1 to 2 months, being fed and filled with crap to make them adult sized with baby brains in windowless sheds. They often turn to cannibalism. They have no enrichment. The stench of ammonia fills the air. The ''farmer'' has to go round each day to collect the bodies of the dead ones. They're then sent off to the abbatoir, while these massive units get cleaned out ready for the new batch of little yellow peeping easter egg chicks (you would melt to see them).

All for a few quid for a whole medium chicken. PITIFUL

Disappointed. I thought it was going to be, '..guess how many meals I got from it.'

Only higher welfare chicken should be available, there’s no human right to eat chicken. Absolutely appalling conditions some of these animals live in.