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Have YOU stopped eating chicken?

30 replies

SPARKLER1 · 27/02/2006 22:12

....Since the news of the outbreak of the bird flu?
My family and I are still eating it but I do know people who live in my area that have stopped.

OP posts:
Flossam · 27/02/2006 22:12

Nope. No need.

misdee · 27/02/2006 22:13

i'm not a bird so am not worried.

Hattie05 · 27/02/2006 22:13

nope still eating chicken in this house!

Hulababy · 27/02/2006 22:13

I don't eat meat anyway but I am still cooking it for Dh and DD.

NomDePlume · 27/02/2006 22:14

nope, still eating chicken in this house.

nulnulcat · 27/02/2006 22:17

bird flu cant possibly be worse than man flu can it!!

bunny3 · 27/02/2006 22:19

we eat it but I only buy organic chicken, have done for years. Think non organic, well-loaded with antibiotics, might be preferable.

Mumatuks · 27/02/2006 22:20

They took it of the menu at DS's nursery months ago when all this bird flu thing started out.

We haven't stopped eating it here at home.

kama · 27/02/2006 22:21

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bunny3 · 27/02/2006 22:21

must admit to ignorance here - were the birds in UK?

NannyL · 27/02/2006 22:39

Nothing to do with bird flu, but ive ONLY eaten organic (or at the very least free range) chicken for nearly a year now...

but then my bosses brother is the filmer in those under cover battery farm programmes and when you here first hand how gross / inhumane / cruel it really is i REFUSE to fund that barbaric industry AT ALL

wouldnt dream of not eating chicken cause of bird flu..

would all be killed in the cooking anyway surely!

scatterbrain · 27/02/2006 22:42

Yes - cooking will definitely kill the virus.

The danger is for people in regular contact with live infected birds. We haven't got it here yet - but prob will - but unless you work with birds - and unless it mutates to a human form - you are b=not in danger !

Not eating chicken won't make a jittery jot of difference !

Tortington · 27/02/2006 23:15

no dont be ridiculous. theres more likleyhood of me geting run over by mr. blobby on a fucking unicycle.

MarsOnLife · 27/02/2006 23:16

Nope! Roasted a lovely one tonight. Yummmmmmmmmmmmm

zippitippitoes · 27/02/2006 23:19

the only chicken available in the future will be factory farmed presumably

and actually more risky for health because of the antibiotics required in close containment

lose lose situation

kiskidee · 27/02/2006 23:20

nope. the ones raised outdoors always taste better too.

nightowl · 27/02/2006 23:59

i have yes. mainly because my cats decided they would like my £5 bag of frozen chicken breast fillets for their supper. little fffffssss. best was, when i saw what they had done, i slung the rest of the bag outside in a temper but they didnt want to eat them then...oh nooo..just not good enough when theres no risk involved evidently.

SorenLorensen · 28/02/2006 00:01

Had roast chicken tonight. Making soup with the left-overs tomorrow. So...no.

expatinscotland · 28/02/2006 00:04

No. NO. NO. You cannot contract this virus from a dead host w/no faeces present. It comes from inhaling dried poultry faeces.

I applaud France's decision to vaccinate free range and organic poultry. I'm ashamed that the UK is not being more proactive about protecting its organic and free range farmers Sad.

expatinscotland · 28/02/2006 00:06

as w/nanny, we also refuse to support the cruelty of battery farming and i'd stop eating meat entirely if i could not afford free range/organic.

i wrote to my MP today, b/c we need to be supporting our free range/organic fathers in this time of need.

egocentriczebra · 28/02/2006 02:49

I suspec the free-range industry will have to go to barn-raised instead, but will be a major upheaval/up the price a lot.

Original poster
SPARKLER1 · 28/02/2006 10:48

Not one person then. Shock

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tarantula · 28/02/2006 10:53

Def not. Love my chicken

And as ducks are 1/2 price in sainsburys atm we've been gorging on them too. mmmmmmmmmmm.

Bugsy2 · 28/02/2006 11:10

No, the disease does not transfer through cooked meat.

Also there are no reported cases of a bird flu outbreak in farmed chickens yet, other than the small holdings in Turkey (as far as I am aware).

Bozza · 28/02/2006 11:16

It has not made any difference to our consumption of chicken. I am planning on making a chicken biryani this week.

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