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

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Honestly, i nearly landed on my arse

@ForTheLoveOfSleep why would the "ethical markets" cut their prices? What they charge reflects the real cost of better welfare for the animal and decent wages for the producers and processors.

The reminds me of when Mr Monkey ran a bar for a very left wing, socially conscious football club and everyone agreed staff should be paid the living wage at least and beer should be bought from local producers - then people moaned proces were higher than the local supermarket. 🙄

As a general rule if you aren't paying then someone else is.

"So let s keep.the plebs in their place then if they can,t afford £15 for chicken let them .eat lentils 🙄"

@x2boys speaking as a fully-paid up pleb, I have to say I find this argument quite offensive. I earn barely above the national minimum wage, and on that I feed a family of four. I can't afford to eat high welfare meat, so I don't. Stop pretending that you're forced to buy cheap meat. It's insulting. I'd have more respect for you and your argument if you were honest and said that animal welfare is not something you particularly care about.

Haven't bought a sausage in years but anticipating visitors breakfast requirements thought I'd get some. Waitrose, £4.50 for 6. Cheaper versions available but bloody hell. £9 for sausages alone in breakfast for 5.

That's fine you don't eat meat if you don't want but don't tell.other people not too.

What?! I have not 'told' anyone not to eat meat, full stop.

But we DO need to be bothered how a whole chicken can be less than a fiver.

Think about what that really means and why we should be accepting the poor standards behind the life and death of an animal to cost less than a jar of coffee.

I can afford 15 quid for a chicken but I eat lentils:)

The writing's on the wall. Current food habits are not sustainable.

Yes, I was aghast at the price of sausages now.

I don’t think, however, we have the right to cheap meat. I was talking to someone who married in the 1950s and at their wedding it was the first time they had chicken .

Something went wrong somewhere when chicken became this incredibly cheap basic.

What really upsets me is that a lot of people I know (and also confess on here whenever the mumsnet famous week of meals from one chicken is mentioned) that they cook a chicken for their roast and just throw what's left away. That's a direct result of meat being too cheap, there are so many ways to use all of a chicjen but why would people when they can get another one for £4?

There are a number of issues contributing to costs. Higher energy costs are feeding in to rearing and processing meat. Brexit means there is a big shortage of people to slaughter and process meat.

Finally specifically for chicken, avian flu is causing huge supply issues.

Honestly realy cheap chicken gives me the ick and makes me wonder how badly it’s been kept. Would sooner buy a more expensive free range one less often.

Err no, why should ethical markets drop their prices? Perhaps they could do that by having lower standards, great idea.

There is a reason the Sunday roast looms so large in our culture - because for many people it was the one time a week they bought meat! And then it would be stretched over several days e.g stews bulked out with pearl barley or dumplings.

It wasn't all that long ago that meat was an uncommon meal for most people. Most of the population would eat cheap meat, offal or offcuts - liver, tripe, "sausages", faggots, eel pie, brawn, tongue, black pudding etc

@Lockheart rediscovering liver! Delicious, so good for you and really cheap!

Don't blame you. Lentils are yummy. We need to stop lentil-shaming.

@Tricolette, I remember paying €4 for a cauliflower in France a couple of years ago - and that was in Carrefour, not their Waitrose equivalent, whatever that may be. I’ve always noticed how much more expensive food is in France.

Surely thats just good business sense? Offer the product at a slightly lower price sacrificing some profit to entice more custom?

I am just pointing out that it comes down to is price for most families. Being too poor to afford a free range chicken is not something to be shamed for.

It is so sad that an animal, a whole animal, can be butchered and bought for £5 or less. Imagine the living conditions of the animal and the working conditions of the people at the abattoir and factories.

True. There’s another thread going on re public transport for poor people. Majority disagree thankfully but lentils and pt are what’s coming

No-one's being shamed for not being able to afford a £15 chicken. People are being shamed for insisting that they must have cheap meat as much as they want at the expense of the animal and for not giving a shit about animal suffering.

Well I can afford a car but I got rid of that too. It's more trouble than it's worth in Central London.

Agree with this completely

Your typical standard chicken reaches "kill weight" in about 28 days. The breeds used (Ross/Cobb) have been mucked about with to the extent that the breeding stock have to be starved in order to be able to stand when mature. Where possible I buy organic (culled at 70 days), but I also eat a lot more veggie/vegan foods. Chicken is too cheap!

Farmer here. £6.67 is ridiculously cheap and reflects the low welfare standards so common in mass produced and often imported meat. Do yourself a favour and eat less but better quality meat raised to higher welfare standards.

Ah the chicken thread as old are forums themselves. Nothing has changed, long may it last

I bought a tin of custard at the weekend. Expected to pay 80p-£1.
£1.60!

How much?! Bloody hell so many companies taking the piss and increasing the prices well above inflation. I’ll be boycotting Asda. It was always crap but seems to be worse since the new ownership. Used to go into the one in the city centre if I’d parked there to go to the high street/shopping centre and needed a couple bits - I won’t be any more