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

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Honestly, i nearly landed on my arse

Would you be happy to have your wages slashed in two so people in poverty can afford your goods/services, or is that just OK for other people?

At the moment they are, but that is the half price offer, they aren’t usually that price.

It used to be, when I was a child in the 50s chicken was something special for high days and holidays.

Modern food production, processing and storage is energy intensive. You know your shocking energy bills recently? That is nothing compared to what farmers and processors have been seeing. That is all going to work its way down the value chain.

This is what the era of expensive energy looks like and what they don't tell you when there is talk of just stopping oil and zero carbon - it's not all insulating your house, recycling and swapping out the odd car journey. (BTW I am in favour of moving to a much more sustainable food and energy system - I am just not convinced many people - including many activists really understand what the full implications are)

Agree. We also import 80,000 chickens from Thailand every year. I'm only glad i dont know what environment they are raised in. I've enough images in my head from the meat industry to keep me up at night.

I would have guessed £3-4 I haven’t bought a whole chicken for a while. I read last week on some egg producers association type site that 140 million hens were culled in Oct and Nov last year - due to bird flu - and that’s part of the reason for the shortage of fresh eggs. I assume the same readings explain the increase in the price of whole chickens.

We didn’t pay enough for food these days - it’s a crime that farm producers get paid so little by supermarkets - they’re happy to pay investors, people who have money they can afford to invest - but to pay producers enough to stay in business.

I worked in a chicken factory when I was a young single mum, it was horrific and believe me I never could bring myself to buy crappy cheap chicken again so we went without. I probably buy a dearer slow bred one now once a month.

Food in Britain is almost the cheapest in the world, from memory only America is cheaper.

I went to buy some edam cheese as a treat, from aldi. £3.20! it will stay a treat and I'm very much looking forward to a nice bit of edam for my birthday, if I can still afford it by then!

The chairman of Tesco was hinting this week that food manufacturers are deliberately inflating their prices.
Not Tesco themselves , of course.

You could just not eat it at all

It sounds very cheap for the times now, with the bird flu and all that.

Let’s not even think about the rats ….

That Will be a great loss to Asda, I am sure. Have you read the thread? Do you get that raw material and energy prices are going up? Do you expect food to be produced and sold at a loss so that you can have cheap chicken/custard/beans?

Agree with this, cheap meat equals poor welfare. We eat more vegetarian meals and buy the higher welfare meat.

A 2kg chicken from my butcher is £12. At the risk of sounding like a wanker, that fed 4 for roast lunch, 3 for stir fry and 2 for sandwiches. AND it was delicious and tastes completely different to that weird woody supermarket chicken.

Ouch. Waitrose are £4.88. Or you can buy a ready roasted one for about £7.00 www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/waitrose-whole-roast-chicken/025811-12584-12585

Waitress cheap chicken is the worst IME. Also its the only supermarket where I've managed to buy completely off stinky chicken.

I thought that was in the context of explaining why supermarkets ask food producers to ‘open their books’ and let the supermarket buyers examine all the cost lines. Which would be crap if you are one of those producers but it’s clear that the supermarkets do it for ‘transparency’ reasons, to screw costs down.

Some families can't afford to be picky about the welfare of their meat though. A chicken gets us (family of 4) three different meals for a week. I see many comments about people not wanting to buy cheap eggs or sausages but some families cant afford to be ethical. I get what you are saying though.

I bought some watch batteries from Amazon and changed them myself, costs about £3

This!!! I personally think the price should be pushed up.

Seeing the prices here from others who bought asda chicken im wondering why i was charged so much in my local one. I'll need to be sharper with the price tickets but i think they were showing the price per kilo and i didn't work it out.

They fill them with water that’s what my butcher tells me That’s why. So it makes it seem like you’re getting more chicken.