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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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LazyLinePainterJane · 10/01/2008 12:12

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TheIceQueen · 10/01/2008 12:13

OMG - I've just done a yell search for fishmongers.......we have just 4 in a 25 miles radius - the closest being about 45 minutes drive away (I'd love to have a decent fishmonger close.........sigh)

aviatrix · 10/01/2008 12:13

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lenaschildminding · 10/01/2008 12:13

Lobster! Is that the one you pick from a tank swimming around doing it's thing, then the chief drops it into a pan and boils it alive?

oh dear!

aviatrix · 10/01/2008 12:14

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fordfiesta · 10/01/2008 12:15

organic milk (and butter.... although that is 20p more expensive) do taste better!! worth the extra pound if you can!..... so that is erm approx extra £2/3 for meat, £1 for milk, 40p if you buy butter... £4 a week and roughly £16 a month. HHmmmm guess it does add up a bit when you are trying to budget. I have bought organic for so long that i guess it is just something we do and i am used to the expence.... blimey might be able to afford a holiday if we did'nt buy organic!!!! Not sure my concience (how do you spell that?) could cope though.

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aviatrix · 10/01/2008 12:16

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carmenelectra · 10/01/2008 12:16

Lazyline,

Gosh that is so true about when did it become normal to eat 2 chickens a wk? It sounds awful like that, eating two animals a wk.

TheIceQueen · 10/01/2008 12:17

lol ford - even without buying organic we can't afford a holiday .

However - I do already buy organic butter (it's actually about 30p more expensive ) as we don't use a lot of it so it's a little luxury I can stretch to easily.

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fordfiesta · 10/01/2008 12:18

i have a dog and two cats..... they eat regular tinned food.... where does their meat come from????? Bugger am going to start feeling bad that they are fed cheap (crap) meat now!! whilst i am scrupulous about what we put in our mouths have never really considered what goes in theirs and where it comes from!

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TheIceQueen · 10/01/2008 12:19

but where ARE these people that eat 2 chickens a week - even of the 2 for £5 vareity????

lenaschildminding · 10/01/2008 12:19

Oh, ok then, just going by what I've seen on tv, can't afford expensive seafood restaurants!

Recommend everyone having their own pet chickens though! They are great little characters, cost less to feed than a dog, don't need walking and you don't have to buy free range eggs! You collect your own every day, and they taste Fab!

TheIceQueen · 10/01/2008 12:20

lol lena - I think you've been watching that beer ad haven't you

Anyhow must fly - DS3 wants milk (of the formula variety......yes another unethical purchase in our house ), and DS2 wants lunch........

carmenelectra · 10/01/2008 12:22

When i go to asda I see loads of people bunging the two for a fiver in their trolleys. I supoose its at least two cheap dinners a wk?

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fordfiesta · 10/01/2008 12:23

ta ra ice queen.... formula variety OMG!!!!

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cazboldy · 10/01/2008 12:23

ford - meat unfit for human consumption i would assume - and god knows there isn't much crap we don't eat scraped off the carcass and made into nuggets or something....or horse meat

prettybird · 10/01/2008 12:30

That's a shame IceQueen. The reason it might be a fishmonger is that they also tend to be the game dealers - and pheasant is game. Although, now that I think about it, in England sometimes butchers are also registered as game dealers, so maybe you might be able to find one more locally. You could always ask your butcher! (while pheasant are still in season )

TheIceQueen · 10/01/2008 12:31

carmen - perhaps they put them in the freezer? I do a big bulk meat buy at the start of the month, split the packs and freeze them.

Yep - formula variety - shocking isn't it......mind you he did enjoy his 8oz

poshwellies · 10/01/2008 12:33

Usually have signs on gates around here selling pheasants- £3 a brace but we are out in the sticks [smiles]

prettybird · 10/01/2008 12:40

ExpatinScotland, where you are in Argyll, you almost definitely have an acid soil so your blueberry would be OK in that. (One asy way to tell is whether or not Rhodenedrons and azaleas can grow in the soil).

Found [http://www.dorset-blueberry.com/cultivation/choosesite.asp this description on how to choose a site]], so your blueberry should be able to toleare the winter in Argyll (I wasn't sure you tedner it was).

the fact that it is shallow rooted should also mean that it will be relatively easy for you to transplant if and when you decide to move.

Wisteria · 10/01/2008 12:40

Can I just say it might be worth contacting your local shooting club or asking people who know people who go shooting etc - I regularly get pheasant given to me for free - yes you read it right free, because apparently no one is prepared these days to manually pluck and gut them so they often get thrown away , when I was offered them I could barely believe it but it is true, and that IMO is absolutely criminal.

My dds are used to seeing them hanging in the garage now!

prettybird · 10/01/2008 12:41

this description on how to choose a site

prettybird · 10/01/2008 12:43

Good idea Wisteria. That's how I first came across pheasant, when I was going out with someone who went shooting (and before someone accuses him of being cruel - he only ever did rough shooting and always ate what he shot. The only people who could legitimately object are vegetarians who don't eat meat)

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fordfiesta · 10/01/2008 12:48

i dont disagree with shooting. when we were kids my dad was a farmer (worked for a farmer and were ridiculously poor!!!) he always shot our meat rabbit/pheasant what ever was on offer. i think it is far more ethically correct to kill and eat your own food.... am not however suggesting for one minute that is what you should all go and do!!

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poshwellies · 10/01/2008 12:50

my dh shoots-but only for rabbit (and for farmers who need them thinned out a bit)...sadly I don't like the taste-but ds(he's just 5) is quite fasinated at the skinning process and eats it without a murmour.

Personally dont't see anything wrong in shooting for food -far better than than those f*cking awful chicken sheds and what goes on in there.