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

593 replies

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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Heathcliffscathy · 09/01/2008 23:34

I WILL. I PROMISE. I SWEAR. I'M THERE UNTIL TEN. if you're not there by then i'm dust woman.

Quattrocento · 09/01/2008 23:35

Microwave

Yes but unfortunately they are not out of business are they?

This is not because people are evil. I really believe that everyone would buy free-range if they FEEL that they could.

So long as unethical foodstuffs are available they will feel that there is an alternative that maybe cost dictates they should be buying.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 09/01/2008 23:36

Oh, phew . Not all falling on deaf ears then!

Growing your own veg is pretty easy. Just takes a little bit of homework before you start so you know when to put things in, what will grow quickly or slowly ie you can sow parsnip seeds and beetroot inbetween. The beetroot will be ready to go in 14-16 weeks whereast the parsnip will take 20 or so. So you can grow them very close together, maximising space because they wont really interfere with each other.

You do at least need a light and warm windowsill to get some of the plants started early (if you cant stretch to polytunnel or fleeces like some folk can).

Onions, spring onions, salad leaves, beetroot, broad beans and herbs dont take up much space at all and are pretty fast growing.

Courgettes are really easy - need NO care and are prolific fruiters.

I'd say peas arent worth the bother. You dont really get that much of a crop if you dont have space for A LOT of plants. Although they are utterly delicious eaten straight off the plant . Leeks - very easy and tasty.

Sweetcorn - I grew 4 plants in half a square metre and got 6 cobs so not sooo prolific but boy did they taste sweeeeet.

You MUST all get a blueberry bush. Well, you need two actually, but you get what I mean! An absolute superfood - all it needs is a pot full of ericaceous compost. The fruit it provides is phenominal and much tastier than supermarket ones.

MarsLady · 09/01/2008 23:36

By the town hall. Has lots of outdoor seating (but want to go indoors as I don't like the cold). Will meet you outside Monkeys! We can decide then, but they do LOVELY sandwiches and you can choose your meaty veggie filling!

MarsLady · 09/01/2008 23:37

If you email me Soph I'll give you my mobi so you can stalk bombard text me!

Really going to bed now. Will dream carnivorous dreams!

1dilemma · 09/01/2008 23:38

I'm with Lauriefairycake on this. Think it's allready happening it's obscene what we expect to pay for food and dreadful what happens to the food. I think there's some big reckoning that needs to happen

oops · 09/01/2008 23:39

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VeniVidiVickiQV · 09/01/2008 23:41

When I was young, I have recollections of eating bangers and mash for days on end or egg and chips. I dont remember much about having actual meat. My parents were in dire financial straights for some years. Sunday roasts were a real luxury.

oops · 09/01/2008 23:43

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TheIceQueen · 09/01/2008 23:44

I have a few fork fulls of rice, a few beans and carrots and a few bites of chicken - does that count as "eating dinner"?? as I'm really not hungry (and its nothing to do with this debate either ).....

oops · 09/01/2008 23:44

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Rhubarb · 09/01/2008 23:44

You campaign to the supermarkets to offer fairer deals to farmers. You join one of these anti-supermarket lobbies. You call on the government to crack down on monopolies. You write to your MP. Buy locally, including your veg. Have a look at this, support your local farmer.

If you can afford to buy free-range then that's brilliant. But don't scowl at the student next to you who's buying Own Brand Chicken.

oops · 09/01/2008 23:47

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Quattrocento · 09/01/2008 23:48

There is something wrong when a ne'r do well student who spends £50 a week on beer and fags is buying an own brand chicken.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 09/01/2008 23:49

I was

They were great days! One of my fave meals is bangers and mash. Never did me any harm

Quattrocento · 09/01/2008 23:49

I say again, we need legislation.

Rhubarb · 09/01/2008 23:49

You veggies must contribute your fair share of methane gas an' all!

Bedtime for me too. Might have bacon and egg tomorrow!

oops · 09/01/2008 23:51

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Rhubarb · 09/01/2008 23:51

Not more stereotyping surely?

Oh but of course, working class students are a rare breed these days thanks to the labour government.

Really must retire now.

TheIceQueen · 09/01/2008 23:53

I thought all students lived on baked beans on toast??? (which I still maintain is not a satisfying meal for my family).

edam · 09/01/2008 23:54

Us veggies produce our methane emissions indoors, though, so that doesn't count, does it?

TheIceQueen · 09/01/2008 23:57

oh yes edam - all those beans must make for a very windy household

VeniVidiVickiQV · 10/01/2008 00:00

You need draught excluders

Anyway, surely organic methane is best?

lenaschildminding · 10/01/2008 00:00

I keep chickens, they are wonderful creatures, they have personalities, one of mine is so bloody cheeky! If your digging the garden she practically pushes you out the way to rummidge in the freshly dug soil! They are hilarious when one finds a worm! They all start chasing each other round the garden, they are just like kids playing tig!

They make fab pets, the kids love them and the eggs are the best eggs I've ever tasted. I've not been able to eat cheap chicken or KFC for that matter, after I'd heard horrible reports before, but after watching this program tonight I don't think I could ever eat chicken again!

I have a pet rabbit and can't eat that, I certainly wouldn't eat dog or goldfish either.

No, that's it for me. I can't have pet chickens and eat them.

edam · 10/01/2008 00:02

during the miners' strike, someone I knew actually ended up killing and cooking the pet rabbit. Her dh hadn't been earning for more than a year. Terrible but had to be done.

Only once it was on the table, neither she nor her dh could actually eat little Flopsy. The only one who did was their ds, who had no idea...