Chook Chook
Posted: Monday, 07 January 2008 |
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Unfortunately, however excellent, it will only be a drop in the ocean, because people who are poor beyond the understanding of many iBloggers I suspect, will still want a cheap source of meat, and chicken will still be it for a long time to come. Look at the power of the big players who told the Irish guy he would never get another job in the industry (and it is an industry) if he threw in his lot with Hugh F-W. The battery chook mafia. We stopped buying supermarket bogstandard chooks purely on the chance viewing of Bernard Matthews turkey sheds during the birdflu scare in Norfolk...an open door on 大象传媒 News offered an insight to one level of Avian Hell, but we can afford to buy freedom food or free range birds. We also find we are eating a lot less of it. (I think Squidgy's rat might have something to say about the last bit, it being a great deal more intelligent than yer average chook!)
Flying Cat from Caring Carnivores Inc.
I didn't watch it but I'd seen something he did about chicken production before which was really good. He took a group of people who all ate cheap chicken and educated them as well as raising some of his own chickens (properly) and then killing one of them. This woman had a big cry about it despite eating loads of mass produced chicken herself - where did she think meat came from? I don't know if I can agree with him setting up intensive for this one - I mean there's plenty of existing evidence about how horrible it is already . . .
alix from west midlands
Oops I meant to look at that. Does anyone know if it's to be repeated?
Ruthodanort from Unst
Alix. I do agree, intensive is a horrible way to rear chickens, but, hugh is doing it as a one time only exercise as it was the only way the camera's could get inside one of these units to film the conditons for general public viewing, not a single intensive poultry rearer was willing to let filming happen inside they units they run. Makes you wonder why.
Angela from Here
Ruthodanort It continues tonight & tomorrow
Angela from tax return hell
The world's best chicken tikka marsala is made from neighbor's free range rooster that strays on my property looking for adventure. I use Bhutto's Sindh curry recipe.
mjc from NM,USA
Fpu says she used to have a Sindhy Doll when she was a girl...it was the one with the burqa!
Flying Cat from Barbie Q
Mjc, I agree totally ! None of the roosters we hatch out here are wasted, those that arent kept for breeding find themselves in the freezer on a roasting pan.
Angela from Wind tunnel
I watched the last one last night. Surely if finance is an issue people can just have chicken less often and buy the better stuff - veg is cheaper after all. Oh well I will never know.
alix from west midlands
We dont eat a lot of chicken either, on average once a month either as a roast (still viewed as a treat in this house) or a dish. I put 12 to 15 roosters in the freezer & thats our lot for the year. But that said, i do love eating chicken that hasnt spent its entire life sad on manky shavings absorbing the ammonia residue.
Angela from wet wonderland
The other problem is there are thousnads of families out there to whom cooking is a mystery. And if I hear one more flaccid wife saying her ma didn't teach her to cook I will SCREAM! You can teach yourself. It's not exacty Advanced Physics...
Flying Cat from a recipe book
One thing i will never understand no matter how hard I try. Folk having kids, raising them & watching them leaving home without the most basic skill in the world... feeding yourself. These people do not deserve to be parents, its nothing but common neglect
Angela from Fair Isle
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