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Another programme to put you off you're dinner. its on now. Its putting me off eggs now :( I don't like intensive farming
 
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that factory where the chicks are grown is eye opening, with the freshly hatched chicks on the conveyor belts
 
I think this is a better programme than Hugh Fearnley Poshingstalls 'Chicken Run', primarily because it's showing the whole process, and also because it's highlighting that the consumer and supermarkets, not the farmer, are the ones to blame for such high levels of intensive chicken farming in the UK.

Education and information to consumers can only improve things.
 
One thing I don't understand - why battery farm buildings don't have a clear (perspex?) roof? I know they have 23.5 hours of light a day, but surely they could use the sun to light the chickens during the day?
 
The thing is, it's almost impossible to avoid intensively farmed chicken. As the program stated, if you eat anything mass-produced which contains chicken products, it will have been bought at the lowest possible cost - what business wouldn't? That's fast food, pizza, any ready meals, mayonnaise/salad cream, tinned foods, sauces, etc, etc, etc.

I always buy free range eggs just because they taste so much better (better shells, richer yolk, stronger white) but I wouldn't kid myself that there's anything noble in it.

There will always be a market for food produced at the lowest possible cost within the bounds of the law. The only people who can change that are the government.
 
caff said:
One thing I don't understand - why battery farm buildings don't have a clear (perspex?) roof? I know they have 23.5 hours of light a day, but surely they could use the sun to light the chickens during the day?
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ever been in a greenhouse?
 
Adz said:
The thing is, it's almost impossible to avoid intensively farmed chicken. As the program stated, if you eat anything mass-produced which contains chicken products, it will have been bought at the lowest possible cost - what business wouldn't? That's fast food, pizza, any ready meals, mayonnaise/salad cream, tinned foods, sauces, etc, etc, etc.
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It's not impossible (or almost impossible) to avoid, just don't buy ready meals and make your own mayonnaise.
 
caff said:
One thing I don't understand - why battery farm buildings don't have a clear (perspex?) roof? I know they have 23.5 hours of light a day, but surely they could use the sun to light the chickens during the day?
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It's hard enough to keep the temperature down without doing something as stupid as that.
 
Mr^B said:
It's not impossible (or almost impossible) to avoid, just don't buy ready meals and make your own mayonnaise.
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What about fast food? Restaurants. Do you ask the waiter how their chicken is sourced?
 
I don't eat "fast food," and as for restaurants, yes I ask where the chicken is sourced from - and in better restaurants they tell you that on the menu anyway.
 
You don't eat fast food or you eat alternatives to chicken. Ofcourse your not always going to be able to stay away from it but surely eating as little of it as you can helps.
 
So I finally know what Willow Farm chickens are.

I tend to buy free range or those willow farm whole chickens purely as they look so much healthier on the shelf. The economy ones often look wrong. Sagging skin and almost jelly like.

Another issue not touched on in the program is nutritional value of the meat. I read somewhere that modern intensively farmed chicken has a far higher fat content than it used to. I can easily see why now. A bird only living 35 vs 100 or more days can't put on lean meat fast enough.
 
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