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campaign for free range chicken!!!!!!! Please.

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fordfiesta · 09/01/2008 17:22

Please check out www.chickenout.tv or watch Hugh's chicken run tonight at 2100 channel 4.
you can sign up for his campaign on the above address.... sorry dont know how to do the link.
If you have been watching the program you will know how important it is!
thank you.

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hunkermunker · 09/01/2008 17:23

Yep, agree.

Tonight's prog shocking.

dividedselfridgesxmaswindow · 09/01/2008 17:24

Can I add that there are two free frange chickens going for not in my back garden if anyone wants to try and catch the little feckers. I'm scared of them and will happily kill them for you to eat if you can catch them.

Will be watching tonight

peanutbear · 09/01/2008 17:25

I dont understand why anyone would buy a cheap chicken after wathing this

I went to a battery egg farm once I have never bought an egg, or chicken or anything else that wasnt free reange since even when I was really hard up

nutcracker · 09/01/2008 17:25

Haven't watched, what is the aim of the prigramme in brief please ?

TellusMater · 09/01/2008 17:25

DH so strict about this. He worked as an electrician at a chicken farm during college holidays and was horrified.

CountessDracula · 09/01/2008 17:26

I agree
can't bear the thought of eating a poor chicken that has had a horrid life

nutcracker · 09/01/2008 17:26

Probably because they can't afford anything more than cheap peanutbear. I know I can't.

dividedselfridgesxmaswindow · 09/01/2008 17:29

once again, only the relatively wealthy have any real choice in such matters. But at least those of you who can afford the choice might drive the price down...

cazboldy · 09/01/2008 17:29

urgh but I would rather not even eat chicken if I couldn't afford a half decent one, and it's not just the quality of their lives (although that is horrendous!) but the length of it too....

nutcracker · 09/01/2008 17:31

Chicken though is the meat we eat the most, as it is usually the cheapest, so if I stop eating that then we'd hardley eat any meat at all.

I am not saying it is right, just that people on a low income don't have a choice.

MerlinsBeard · 09/01/2008 17:37

sorry, i am with butcracker on this one. if it was feasible then i would buy free range everything but it isn't. I have very very little to spend on food each week and that includes nappies and all toiletries, any presents come out of that as well. If i stopped buying cheaper chickens then i wouldn't eat much meat at all.

What is the petition for anyway? to make all chickens free range?

cadelaide · 09/01/2008 17:39

butcracker....great typo!

hunkermunker · 09/01/2008 17:40

You don't have to eat meat though.

Watch it tonight and you might not want to.

cadelaide · 09/01/2008 17:40

It's free range in this house, or if we're having a skint week it's no chicken at all.
Plenty of alternatives to meat, cheap chicken not necessary. It should be an occasional treat, not a staple.

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fordfiesta · 09/01/2008 17:42

It is not that much more expensive to buy a free range chicken..... think it is important that we look at the quality of the meat we eat not just the quantity..... i am poor to nutcracker so really do understand where you are coming from but morally it can not be right for any animal to be kept in the condition these are. we complain about child labour etc this in my view is comparable.
The less people buy this sort of meat product the cheaper the free range will get!

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dividedselfridgesxmaswindow · 09/01/2008 17:44

Ok, so effectively, if one has a low income in this country then one cannot morally or ethically condone one's own consumption of meat.

So the divide between rich and poor has widened and even a balanced meat inclusive diet becomes the preserve of the wealthy?

nutcracker · 09/01/2008 17:44

I do want to eat meat though, and every week is a skint week so there isn't really an option.

If they make free range cheaper then I will gladly buy them.

hunkermunker · 09/01/2008 17:45

Will you watch the programme?

nutcracker · 09/01/2008 17:46

No, I have deliberatly not watched it because I know I don't have a choice in what I buy.

hunkermunker · 09/01/2008 17:48

You do though.

You're choosing to eat shit meat, produced in a cruel way.

If you're OK with that choice, so be it.

Lmccrean · 09/01/2008 17:48

Ive found it cheaper to buy it at the local market than at tesco! Tho I do only buy it once a fortnight, if even that.

NoNickname · 09/01/2008 17:49

Link here

MerlinsBeard · 09/01/2008 17:49

i paid £4.57 for a medium large chicken the other day....compared to £6.56 for a medium one free range. Thats extra £2 goes a long way when you have £42 a week to feed 2 adults (inc pg me) and 2 DCs.

No, i won't watch the programme, i am aware of the conditions that some chickens live in but if i watched it that would be our main source of protein gone. We don't eat many veggies and chicken is the main meat we eat as the DSs don't like beef/turkey.pork.lamb or whatever.

Nutcracker...sorry for the typo

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fordfiesta · 09/01/2008 17:50

i dont think it is an issue of rich/poor divide. And fail to see how any one can justify eatng animals kept in these conditons. It is however a question of morals and ethics yes. And i wonder how much nutritional value there is to eating a chicken breed in this way. There are alternatives that i manage to buy (and according to the government we live below the poverty line!?!)

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Mercy · 09/01/2008 17:51

You don't have to eat meat every day or even every week though.

And as was demonstrated last night, if you roast a chicken it can stretch to another couple of meals. Nutcracker, it really is possible.

And if a lot more of us bought free-range the price would come down - eventually.

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