Message to Hugh:

Cut your hair and get a proper job!

*goes all lovely*

Love your work darling:P

On my weekly shopping trip to Morrisons today I had something different on my list. A free Range Chicken. What a rare breed this is. I got the last one and it was only lunch time. They could have sold more as people were asking for them. Everyone was talking about the Channel 4 chicken programms that have been on this week. In my opinion I don't think £7 is that much to pay for your Sunday roast. A joint of meat cost the same. If you think about it its one less pint in the pub. A small price to pay for the knowledge that the chicken s had a good life and at least seen outdoors. More natual. and also that my family are well fed and my kids are not eatting crap. I am not well off just a bog standard family with a couple of kids. I call for more home cooked meals for Britain. Don't give me that rubbish about time. I'm a working mum and I can do it. Invest in a slow cooker.
When I had completed my shopping I joined the queue only to find the chicken debate up a running again with the checkout girl stating when she saw my chicken that she would not eat a standard chicken again. We were joined by customers from the next door queue who were all in agreement that standard chickens should go. Listen up Morrison and get your Free Range chickens and eggs out. The majority of consumer would actually prefer them. The check out girl told me that it just wasn't free range chicken that had gone through her till today. It was everything from organic Salmon to organic veg.
Are the public taking note and change could be on the horizon. I hope so.
Well done to Channel 4

Next week i might take my son and let him loose in the aisles shouting CHICKEN OUT.
Come on Morrisons get your act together!!!

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Originally posted by BexTech:
Just finished watching the first instalment.

I'd like to think that this does encourage more people change the type of food they buy.

It certainly had that effect in Leeds, where I have been buying free range for years. My local supermarket SOLD OUT OF FREE RANGE this weekend, for the first time in memory. It will get cheaper if more of us insisted on free range every time!

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a lot of people say "i cant afford to buy free range chickens" but if they emptied there shoping on the floor im sure that there would be something they realy dont need and they could put that towards a free range chicken

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Originally posted by davidK.:

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Originally posted by BexTech:
Just finished watching the first instalment.

I'd like to think that this does encourage more people change the type of food they buy.

It certainly had that effect in Leeds, where I have been buying free range for years. My local supermarket SOLD OUT OF FREE RANGE this weekend, for the first time in memory. It will get cheaper if more of us insisted on free range every time!

As the mother of 4, I try to feed my kids on a healthy balanced diet. They get their treats, but they also get healthy and varied food. I'm also trying to grow my own vedge in growbags and a plastic greenhouse, it will save me money and I know what the kids are eating, plus they get the fun of seeing the food grow. However, since the chicken run show, I've also been trying to buy free range meat (been buying the eggs for a while now), with little success. It just isn't on the supermarket shelves. I'd rather pay a couple of bob more to know that the meat i'm eating is reared with care and consideration.

So, even though I'm on a tight budget, I'm going back to the old fashioned butchers. Wish me luck, I hope they don't let me down.

Hugh's programme certainly has changed people's purchasing in my local Tesco. They had run out of free range chicken by lunchtime. I have to admit to a certain queesiness about meat in general but I doubt I will eat factory produced chicken again !!!.

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Originally posted by BexTech:
Just finished watching the first instalment.

I'd like to think that this does encourage more people change the type of food they buy.

Sorry to raise this one again but I missed the show the first time around and I happened to catch it last night. I've not read everyone's comments, so forgive me if I'm going over old ground.

I have two points. 1. Why has it taken >20 years for this to become an issue? I refused to buy intensively reared chicken when I lived in the UK - and I left in '89. Remember Edwina Curry and her eggs? That was because chickens for egg production, apart from getting feathers and dead birds as a protein supplement were being fed their own excrement and this led to a build up of Salmonella.

2. What's this with 39 days and 56 days. Now I live in France, I can go into any supermarket and pick up a free range farm raised bird (that has been fed exclusively on grain and minerals) from one of several companies.

For your information, they are raised for 81 days!! That's more than twice as long as the intensive ones.

As it happens, our local supermarket was doing a promotion on these, which is why I bought two. One will be roast for supper tomorrow, and I'll probably make the other into a Thai green curry a little later. Cost? 2 for the price of one, which was €7.49 = £5.00. So a decent free range chicken doesn't HAVE to cost the earth.