Who read"The Foul Truth About Chicken" in Tuesdays Mail??

[dropinthe]

I'm really concerned that the article highlighted that even free-range and organic birds end up being processed in the same factorys as all others. The scald tanks where they are all dipped to scald the skin and loosen the feathers is full of faeces and only gets changed once a day and is only 52C ,the temperature that salmonella and campylobacter thrive.Half of the chicken sold in the uk supermarkets is infected with this last disease which causes a nasty food poisoning with severe,bloody diarrhoea.
Maybe this is why we and our children are suffering from so many stomach bugs lately-I have had three in three months!!
God,is anything safe to eat??

hi,
Didn't see this article - read Mondays and am about to read yesterdays on salad.

Think the whole food industry needs a shake up!

Didn't see the artcle but, tbh, I treat any chicken I cook as potentially dangerous - I am so careful with it - separate boards, knives, much hand washing: I'm bordering on neurotic. And I probably over cook it too - but I reckon that's better than undercooking. So long as you are really careful with preparation and cooking salmonella and camylobacter are not a problem.

Agree though - vegetarianism is much more appealing when you read what is going on in abattoirs and meat processing factories.

I don't read the The Mail [rolls eyes]

Liar, liar, pants on fire.

Moi?

never eat chicken, it's all this and those beady eyes and scaly feet in combination, it's just not right

I freely admit I read the Mail . Saw that article, made me want to puke, especially the picture. Luckily we've got a good farmers market that has a farm butcher and they raise all the animals themselves, and send them off to a local abattoir, which admittedly I've never been to but I believe him when he says its nothing like the huge commercial ones. Granted, all the meat is more expensive than in the supermarket but it tastes miles better and free-range etc.

actually there were quite a few good articles that day - all lies though

lol JT!!

I obviously have a sensible dd then cos she wont eat chicken at all think Ill have to set up a chicken run in the garden next to the veggie patch now. Is there any food at all thats safe tho? Seems to me that there is a scare every week.