Right before I start, Im a 31 year old male with a girlfriend with lots of friends so Im not a loner and i don't cosider myself sad and never would of thought that i'd be writing on here tonight but something compelled me too after watching the second episode of the show. I tink it is a brilliant, informative show that nails home that there is disturbing frankly appaling act which happens when breeding chickens for consumption. I myself love to cook and when available I only choose free range chicken however there are many products out there which if you think about it aren't free range such as packets of sliced chicken, chicken pies, chicken from the chippy, chicken on your pizzas, ready meals like fajitas, when you go for a chicken balti and the list can go on and on forever. The point is you will never stop battery farming as the industry is too profitable and all around is no matter if its Tescos, Sainsburys, M&S, Morrisons or your local Balti, Chineese or Chippy. I am also appaled with the supermarket chains with the advetisement on the labels and correct me if im wrong but isn't there a governing body which governs this?? If so why are they allowed to get away with it? Congratulations to C4 for bringing a quality programme to our screens and good luck to Hugh,Jamie and Gordon in there efforts.
Alot of people can't afford the high prices and are now trapped by the supermarkets that have taken over. Where i live there are farmers markets with lovely food but it is so exspensive. I have not got a car so i get my shopping delivered from the supermarket but what i try and do is get meat and vegatables from town as it is of a good standard also i wait until an organic chicken is lower in price becouse it has been in the shop a few days. The greengrocers has gone now and alot of other shops have closed so it takes planning and also time. If i had more money i would choose more healthy and organic food but we have to eat and i have a very tight budget. I don't like buying food that has traveled from the other side of the world and i will never buy a chicken that has been pumped full of water Free range eggs should be the only eggs that can be bought. What supermarkets are getting away with has to stop and other than frozen peas, i wouldn't buy any veg from there. I'm sure if everybody started buying from local farmers then prices would go down.
i am a father and husband i hagve five children one of them is dissabled i cant work because i have to look after my son so our buget is low and i agree some prices are so expesive but we still eat heathly fresh veg we only once in a blue moon eat fastfood
Unfortunately supermarkets have conned people into thinking all food should be cheap, so the problem is not that free range chickens are expensive, rather, intensively reared chickens are far too cheap. The same people who won't pay £6 for a whole free range chicken think nothing of paying £5 plus for a chicken curry at their local takeaway! Where's the logic in that? You will never be able to change the mindset of the majority of supermarket shoppers whilst the big supermarkets are concerned only with cheap prices and not quality of product.
The other problem is that people don't think of the world economy as a whole. The planet is over crowded. You'd never ever be able to breed enough free range chickens to feed the world. A lot of the world is starving as it is. I bet they would love any chicken at all.
Supermarkets haven't conned anyone. People are too stupid these days to realise they are being ripped off.
From the posts i've read on this forum so far though it seems that the people who have a budget to stretch aren't falling into these traps. Well done to you It frustrates me explaining to people, even my mum, that "cheap" and even frozen is not good value. Convenient they may be, but if everyone cooked more cooking would not be a chore. Is it really that hard to cut some veg and cook some rice?
Why is it a chore anyway? What valuable time does it take away from most? Drag them away from crap like eastenders?
i wouldnt worry too much about what you saw on Hughes quite frankly, horribly innacurate, television show, the chickens depicted do not represent those grown in the UK, for one thing, no cages, and the only real difference between free range, and barn chickens, is that the free range ones have access to an outside run, other than that they live in virtually identical conditions. it was in the newspapers, apparently Hughe spent a week filming inside one of the biggest UK chicken Barns, but they edited it out, because it didnt fit in with the message that Hughe was trying to put across, quite frankly, if Hughe has to resort to lies to make a point, then he's wasting his, and quite frankly, our time anyway.
I have the right to remain silent, but not the ability!
Food is now so much cheaper in real terms than in the past, and if people stopped buying junk food (snack products, takeaways, fast foods, sweets, ready meals etc), they'd have a lot more money to spend on decent healthy food. My weekly shop at the supermarket is around £25 (that's for 21 meals) - and I can still afford the odd scallop, oysters or other exotic seafood meal (which I cook simply), but I only eat red meat or chicken about once every 2 months, preferring the heathier fish instead. And plenty of veg, and whole grains of all types (which are dirt cheap), including such exotica as quinoa. In fact, basically my diet is the government's recommended Mediterranean type diet for healthy hearts.
But when I'm at the supermarket checkout, what do I see in other people's trolleys? Guess...
