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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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edam · 09/01/2008 22:50

Godzillas, you've got it the wrong way round. Much more efficient use of land to grow crops and eat them ourselves, rather than grow crops to feed to animals. You can feed many more people on a field of corn than on the number of , I dunno, pigs you could raise on the same amount of corn, IYSWIM. I forget the calculation but if the whole world went veggie, we'd have more than enough food for everyone.

Heathcliffscathy · 09/01/2008 22:50

ooops i'm soo so sad that you're incredibly sane post is marred by your zs and sses.

you are quite right.

aviatrix · 09/01/2008 22:50

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Rhubarb · 09/01/2008 22:50

But edam - think of the fart gases!

Blu · 09/01/2008 22:51

Rhubarb - i was looking at a battery farm (hidden behind a big hedge, no sign on the road telling you what it is) v close to my Mum's in Norfolk last week. It was deserted every time I went past. Twice a day, one big range rover parked outside. I suspect that the very reason battery chicken is cheap is that very few people do earn wages from it - just a few owners - 'investors' - who get rich on the profits.

the feed goes in automatically from big hoppers on the roof, it's all automatic. Big biusiness, yes - but a matching, commensurate ratio of real jobs for real people? I wonder.

oops · 09/01/2008 22:51

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TheIceQueen · 09/01/2008 22:51

Today - one of those meals is using the stock made from the carcass .....and DH (and DS's) get told they have to limit themselves the first day it's cooked (for Roast).

aviatrix · 09/01/2008 22:51

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Rhubarb · 09/01/2008 22:52

I agree that the fault lies with supermarkets and the governments and not with the consumers. Which brings me right back to my original posts of why it is that people still buy battery hens and why they are not to blame.

Phatmouse · 09/01/2008 22:52

It's embarrassing that poor woman that makes him a prat.

Very sensitive about the Hugh are we not?

Heathcliffscathy · 09/01/2008 22:52

icequeen are you...
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are you are you are you????

where have you been? or should i say bean????

aviatrix · 09/01/2008 22:53

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Blu · 09/01/2008 22:53

You know what - I'm up for trying to get the Cooking Grannies programme off the ground!

Barcelonababe - I'll CAT you tomorrow - am off to bed now, exhausted!

GodzillasResolutoryBumcheek · 09/01/2008 22:54

Ok, fair enough, but would we all be deficient in vitamin B? Please be gentle - i haven't time to read up before i post!

Rhubarb · 09/01/2008 22:54

(and why intelligent people can buy battery hens)

Edam, surely we'd make up for the cows methane if we all went veggie?

MicrowaveOnly · 09/01/2008 22:54

rhubarb who are all these people that are 'struggling' and simply can't afford to pay out for decent food? As was said earlier the % of 'battery' hens bought does not match the % of very very poor people.

TheIceQueen · 09/01/2008 22:55

VVV my greenhouse currently houses furniture left over from our failed business venture 2yrs ago, 2 childrens bicycles and a trike, a paddling pool, several large boxes (which DH and I were commenting just yesterday we must go through and see what we want to keep), coal, and other assorted junk.........oh and a large bush/shrub that keeps creeping its way through the junk - not to mention a few broken pains of glass at the bottom....

No I can't grow veg I'd kill them - I know it - garden isn't big enough anyhow

aviatrix · 09/01/2008 22:55

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Blu · 09/01/2008 22:56

LOL at Rhubarb / methane

Rhubarb · 09/01/2008 22:56

I once read an interesting article in some science mag that had studied eating patterns of people. They found that the blood group you had dictated quite a bit of your eating habits. So for instance your Rhesus Negatives and Positives were mainly carnivores and other blood groups were split into vegetarians and vegans.

GodzillasResolutoryBumcheek · 09/01/2008 22:56

Oh, and the fox hunting industry 'provided jobs' too btw. Look where that stance got 'em.

TheIceQueen · 09/01/2008 22:56

yes sophable I am........changed name for Christmas and haven't changed back again.....surely you must have seen me around???

oops · 09/01/2008 22:57

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Rhubarb · 09/01/2008 22:57

microwave, the people who are plucking and gutting your free-range hens for minimum wages. Immigrants, single parents, low-income families, travellers etc etc.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 09/01/2008 22:57

Cooking for Grannies would be great Blu

Sophable - you absolutely must grow your own stuff!

Beetroot is absolutely fucking gorgeous homegrown, picked and boiled within an hour of digging up and eaten. So much more flavour and the seeds - you get hundreds for 99p! AND you can pick the young beet leaves too for salad!

Oh, and homegrown Rocket!!! BLOWS your head off. It's fantastic! Fresh tomatoes, just picked and still warm from the sun.......yum!

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