If I eat out I make sure I either choose a resturant that uses locally sourced meat/food or I eat a veggie option. the thought of eating and tasting a intensively farmed chicken or any other animal just doesnt do it for me. I think this is another reason why there is such an demand on battery farmed chickens, think of chinese food, indian, kfc the list goes on. I would rather cook at home with fresh free range meat. I dont think people question enough about the food they are eating. I have cooked many a times for friends and all have said how lovely the meat is ect but yet they arent prepared to pay the extra money to buy decent meat and find it too much effort to go to there local butcher.
Unfortunately I run my own business so I don't really get the time to eat out. The only delivery food I get is pizza and if I do order one wit meat on it, I have to admit I don't ask where it comes from.
Don't eat out that much, but was under the impression (and I'm not sure where from - maybe from the marauding herds of sheep on the hills here in Derbyshire) that British lamb is quite an ethical choice if you really want to eat red meat when you're out - they're pretty hard to rear intensively, so they have at least have an outdoorsy life before they are slaughtered - am I right in thinking this?
I also wish more restaurants would have decent veggie options instead of flipping mushroom stroganoff or ubiquitous vegetable lasagne - even though I'm a meat eater I've started avoiding places that don't do decent veggie options as I don't always want to eat cow or chicken. It's usually fine in city centres, but as soon as you end up in Small Town England you've no chance!
My problem is not buying Organic Free Range meats/chickens etc, IT IS HOWN MUCH the supermarket industry ask us to pay for the pleasure. The poor old farmers DO NOT get half the amount the supermarkets charge, and that is what gets me angry. The likes of T e s keep prices higher than required it is all greed today how much more millions pounds profit can we make this year? the shoppers will soon learn where else to buy their groceries from, local markets are so much cheaper and better quality.
