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

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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.

No I don't hunker. I want to eat meat, I want my kids to eat meat, so where is the choice then ??

Like MOM just said, chicken is our main source of protein and the only meat that I can garuntee the kids will eat.

Can't afford to have morals, end of.

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Not food and clothes wise anyway.

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my roast chickens already stretch as far as they are able...the only bit (apart from the bones obviosuly!) that we don't eat is the arse and the neck!

We don't eat meat every day either

I could go to the farm shop and get a supposedly free range one but that would cost me £9 and would be far smaller than the one i bought the other day

It's terrible
So pleased that it is being shown on tv, and to think the shed is only one 10th of the size of the commercial ones
Hopefully some people will change their shopping habits.

Vegetables aren't a source of protein though. Cheese, eggs, pulses, soya, nuts etc are.

MOM, I'm no great shakes in the kitchen but even I could make a medium chicken last more than one meal.

We eat alot of eggs , I don't buy those free range either, because I can't afford to, so should I stop eating eggs too ?

Nutcracker..... do you have a garden??? You could breed your own for not very much money! and you dont need a big space, 'in the war' people kept chickens in their back yard.

ROFL FF

I do have a garden yes, if you could see it though you'd LOL at that suggestion too. Plus, I have a cat who will chase anything that moves.

Apart for the moral dilemma of eating an animal that has known only misery, I wouldn't feed my family intensively reared meat.
I would MUCH prefer us to eat just vegetables, fish and beans if we couldn't afford at least free range. The additives and antibiotics that the animals are fed to make them grow fast are revolting and I don't want them any where near my childrens diet and certainly not a regular part of their diet.
Those of you who feed your family mainly cheap chicken should think seriously about what you are doing.

I am not saying that you should never have chicken but that it doesn't need to be and shouldn't be the only meat you eat.

Asda organic chicken legs are just 4.73 per kg as compared to 14.49 for the organic chicken breasts. Free range chicken legs are just 3.00 a kilo. That is actually VERY cheap. You could feed a lot of people with a kilo of chicken legs.

watch oclock news bbc1 now talking about battery farming!

Of course not. YOu can only afford what you can afford.

The kind of person who annoys me is for example the woman on the prog. last night who roasted a whole chicken and only ate the breast meat. She normally would dump the rest of the chicken.

I am certainly not rich and I don't think I bray.

So meat now will also become something that only the well off can/should have ?

Funny how all of you with morals don't see anything wrong in that though.

Meat WAS always a luxury and should be a luxury for everyone. An animal should cost a lot to rear.

would it really be possible to rear all chickens free range? the land that would need to be available would put most farmers off i'd think.

Completely agree with everything Carmenere has said.

Too many people seem to take for granted that a chicken costs £3 and think that anything more is too expensive. But in reality, the chicken should never cost £3 in the first place - supermarkets, and pricing wars have warped people's minds.

Growing up we didn't have meat every day, a chicken was a treat for a sunday roast.

It would be possible if people didn't expect to be able to afford to eat breast meat 3 times a week.
It is totally market driven, if we demand free-range they will supply the demand and the more we buy the cheaper it will become.

Agree Carmenere. As I said on the other thread when my mum was young, chicken was a treat for Christmas dinner.

Meat formed a much smaller part of the diet.

Southeastastra,with the amount of farm land going to waste because we fail to buy british/seasonal product i dont think lack of farm land a problem. Most reputable farmers will snatch at anything to keep farming british and farms running at a profit.

That may be so but what is being done to make moral choice making more attinable by ALL please?

spooky, xposts with you Carmenere

Years ago people said that lots of people buying fairtrade/organic veg would bring the price down........that hasn't happened either.

I'm with Nutcracker on this one (and yes I did watch the programme) - trying feeding a family - where you mix pulses AND meat - and they're still not always satisfied (ie full) without any meat.

I can make a £4-5 extra large chicken last for 3 (at a real stretch 4 meals). I can make a £6-7 medium chicken last 2 (at a stretch 3) meals.

but Mercy this applies to ll food groups not just meat. Why should the wealthy be the only ones able to say not to genetically modified, shipped ll over the shop fruit and veg for example?