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

[fordfiesta]

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.

sophable, you don't just disagree, you make a point of the person you are disagreeing with.

And what about my point about the chicken workers? FairTrade chicken?

I have been a veggie, albeit for 40 days, but it nearly killed me! Bloody quorn tastes like shit.
Besides, what happens to the farmers if everyone goes veggie. Sorry but I happen to think that people are more important than animals. And I say that as an animal lover.

phatmouse..... i think hugh is absolutely aware he has a priveleged background, that does not make him a pratt!

I am absolutely not implying that you do QoQ, or that you can't cook.

I do think that the TV cooking phenomenum is barmy - top chefs showing us how to fiddle about with astronomicaly expensive ingredients like sea bass...when someone showing how to make cheap, nutritious, delicious and fun meals fro scratch would be so much more helpful in every way!

They should do a series hosted by a different grandma each week.

'101 ways to serve scraggy lamb' could me my mother's opening slot!

rhubarb i absolutely agree that people are more important than animals

microwave, stop worshipping me please. It's embarrassing.

veni.... we have ducks in the garden (we dont intend to eat them but they are there for the eggs) they are also great for keeping slugs down and are quite gentle in the veg patch!

VVV you "ammed in rhubarb" - poor Rhubarb what did she do to deserve that .

I don't grow my own - it really WOULD be a false economy if I got my hands dirty in the garden - I may have inherited my mothers ability to cook a meal without a recipe book in sight......but I definitely haven't inherited her green fingers...........I can kill cacti and aloe vera

why are people more important than animals?

Blu - that's brilliant - get in touch with every production company you can think of until they buy it. No I mean that. This programme must be made.

blu great new tv prog

vvv you've inspired dh and i to dig up our 35' by 20' lawn and make it a veg patch

sophable, I agree that this thread has very good intentions and I do agree with the intentions behind it. But there are flaws with the free range argument that need to be addressed. You cannot simply state that everyone should either by free-range or stop eating chicken altogether.
Intensive chicken farming is big business and a livelihood for many farmers. You need to solve these economical issues too and look at how the government treats farmers and how farmers are encouraged to do intensive farming by this government.

ford: because me, dh and ds are human

Rhubarb: Farmers are a dab hand at growing things though, aren't they? The problem with Quorn is that it wasn't grown by a farmer but invented in a lab!

rhu comsumers will solve that issue

[small voice] Am i being very stupid to ask - if we all turned vegetarian, where all the extra veggies would grow?

ford - I put this to you

A chicken (free-range organic of course) and a human are trapped in a house on fire. You can rescue ONE of them........which would you choose???

blu, i work in tv production, i could direct u to a few companies!

OMG i'd save the chicken - just think of the crispy skin

Will they though? Government policy on farming needs to change. You can't expect people in this economic climate, who are struggling with inflated mortgage prices and gas rises, to pay out extra for their food too. They simply cannot afford it. Policy needs to change to be more supportive of farmers and farm workers.

Good point about the quorn.

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TIQ - if you can feed you hard to satisfy DH and Dss 4 times from the same chicken that must be one freakishly large chicken!

PMSL Godzilla......

anyhow - this isn't getting my dinner eaten.....do I HAVE to eat dinner??? - I'm not really hungry - just fancy a coffee .....well I suppose I'd better at least going have some of it.

Actually, the dinner lady cookbook by Jeannette Orrey is not soooo far off from that Blu. It's pretty good, basic stuff. I love it!

I really dont think ducks would have enough space in our garden - its 14m by 7m at the widest point and I need children space - veg space - sitting space and washing line space I WILL do it one day though, when I have the space so as not to keep them couped up

My neice keeps chickens. They culled one for dinner and had friends round. One chicken breast fed 6 people

QOQ - I kill houseplants too . Useless with them. Growing veg REALLY doesnt take much skill. Most of it is stick seed in ground and water. Then leave and let nature do the rest . I grew butterbeans last year. OMG they were delicious and plentiful. Plus - they grow Upwards rather than out and dont take up so much room!!!! You have a greenhouse, dont you?

what's wrong with your 's'?