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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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perpetualworrier · 09/01/2008 22:05

Ok this whole nudget thing is obviously very difficult. If you really can't afford it you can't, end of, but it I'm not sure who some people are trying to convice - themselves maybe?

If only 95% of chickens sold are free range or organic, then there are an awful lot of people who could afford it, but choose not to.

nutcracker · 09/01/2008 22:05

So only unintelligent people on a budget buy crap meat ??

I am a bit gobsmacked at that comment.

Rhubarb · 09/01/2008 22:05

What does my intellect have to do with shopping on a budget?

perpetualworrier · 09/01/2008 22:06

what's a nudget?

nutcracker · 09/01/2008 22:07

Tis like banging head against a wall this is.

Heathcliffscathy · 09/01/2008 22:07

NO, rhubarb if you trawl the archives you will find that when i do agree with you: i do!

but why on earth come on a campaign for free range chicken thread crying: i'm too poor fuck off.

seriously. there are very very very poor veggies out there.

and meat is not very good for you tbh.

it is a very poor, not to say shameful argument.

moljam · 09/01/2008 22:08

surely if people care that much about the lives of the animals they are about to eat they wont eat them at all?i think its odd youll only eat chicken thats had nice life.

FluffyMummy123 · 09/01/2008 22:08

Message withdrawn

TheIceQueen · 09/01/2008 22:08

31 or 32p a week??? surely must be more than that????

perpetual - I thought you'd put the whole nugget thing

Heathcliffscathy · 09/01/2008 22:08

non-thick people have no excuse.

and i will stand by that for all the people on fuck all money that shop ethically.

nutcracker · 09/01/2008 22:09

I am stunned at your posts Sophable, I really am.

JingleyJen · 09/01/2008 22:09

We have used our butcher for meat for the last few years and chicken is one of the last things that I find it hard to give up from the supermarket - drawn in by price - I really would prefer to eat less meat than to buy it.

This program has had the desired effect.
The question of farm workers wages is a valid one but a different one.

Heathcliffscathy · 09/01/2008 22:10

please explain why nutcracker.

i have lived on £12 a week. and managed not to buy shit.

so talk to me.

TheIceQueen · 09/01/2008 22:10

sophable - perhaps you'd like to come and try and fill my DH and DS's up on a diet based purely on pulses, vegetables and other such "non-meat" products - and NOT end up spending more than I do on cheap meat???

VeniVidiVickiQV · 09/01/2008 22:10

oh hang on.....I may be wrong there....

I'm suffering from calorie withdrawal this week
One moment....

nutcracker · 09/01/2008 22:12

You fed how many people for £12 a week ?? and what did you buy ?? Did it include meat ?

GodzillasResolutoryBumcheek · 09/01/2008 22:12

I can't afford to buy FR either. I think it's great that Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall can go past every item in Tesco and say it's 'cheap chicken'! Slightly annoying that i can't too but oh well...

What i thought was awful was that the poor indoor chickens aren't allowed substantial time to rest (because they would....OMG...stop eating). Isn't that a method of torture?

Is there no compromising? At least a proper period of rest and natural light, and less chickens per sq metre?

Or perhaps people could always stop eating huuuuge piles of sausages and chicken all in one meal and there would be less of a call for such intensive farming.
FFS how much protein does one person actually need in a day?

Wisteria · 09/01/2008 22:12

TIQ - hi, missed your post directly after mine about hols etc. Please don't think I am having a personal attack or judging your life - I am not and am in no position to, I do my best with the knowledge I've got, but there is loads I would love to change about what I can afford to buy as well.

I have lived on a tight budget (still do) and I have made the choice to make the changes I could but I neither judge nor think others must follow suit - I want to get the laws changed as I think you would too if it meant you could afford it.

I have said, a few times I think now, that I am not aiming my comments on those on a tight budget, but the fact remains that the majority of chicken buyers in this country could afford to buy free range if they made some adjustments within the split of their budget; if they did, then the cost of free range would come down in price, thus rendering it more accessible to all of us.

TheIceQueen · 09/01/2008 22:12

my maths is poor - but I'm pretty sure you're wrong.......looking at the Asda site here (not sure why I NEVER even go to Asda!) - but

4pt Organic £1.50
4pt Normal £1.34 (oo same price as Morrisons LOL.

That's 16p more just for 4 pints .

Heathcliffscathy · 09/01/2008 22:12

jesus icequeen. dh, ds and i have just eaten a vegetarian chilli made with lentils. ds had no hot chilli in his i added it for dh and i.

we are STUFFED.

VeniVidiVickiQV · 09/01/2008 22:14

Oops - I was basing it on a 6 pint bottle and not 20 pints

I'ts about 96p a week difference. Absolutely worth it too, IMO.

Heathcliffscathy · 09/01/2008 22:14

sorry but if you feel sorry for the chickens:

DON'T EAT THEM

lamb is pretty much all free range. eat that instead.

jeesus.

why does everyone think that meat at every meal is par for the course?

TheIceQueen · 09/01/2008 22:14

I too would probably be stuffed after that meal sophable - but I can 99.99% guarantee that my DH and DS's wouldn't be.

nutcracker · 09/01/2008 22:15

So did your £12 a week for food include meat or not ??

Heathcliffscathy · 09/01/2008 22:15

tinned tuna mostly

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