free range chicken shortage
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Even if you're indifferent about animal welfare, there is a taste difference between good quality produce and meat rather than intensively farmed rubbish.
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if it was wouldn't they make sure they had the stock ready for the rush?
supermarkets are losing money as far as i'm concerned - i havent bought any poultry for a month and a half from them.
Example of differences between produce...
Check out wild salmon.
Then compare to intensively farmed (or even organic farmed, the really pale stuff) salmon. It's nothing compared to the wild stuff. The colour, the texture, the smell, the taste.
Check out wild salmon.
Then compare to intensively farmed (or even organic farmed, the really pale stuff) salmon. It's nothing compared to the wild stuff. The colour, the texture, the smell, the taste.
I find the difference most striking when you grab a pack each of cheap and then free range chicken and compare their size. The cheap ones are invariably huge and that just points to the abnormal way they are grown and all the water and additives they seem to pump into them after slaughter to "plump" them up. The thing that put me off the most was frying up some pieces of cheapie chicken breast and within a few minutes having a nice puddle of water appearing in the pan...the same thing happens with cheap bacon and is rather unappetizing to say the least.
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Good point, but maybe they underestimated the effect?
Personally, I eat a chicken if it looks healthy. I've seen "free range" chickens that look they've never been fed.
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I don't discriminate between different types of chicken. It's my favourite meat and as long as it's on my plate I'll eat it.
I've never seen a healthy looking chicken in a supermarket - they're all rather dead at that point.
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The fact that non battery chickens a) taste nice & better b) aren't full of toxins and crap c) are somewhat more ethically dealt with...
I've been buying free range chicken and eggs for many many years. I never saw the point in not.
You have to ask yourself, can you afford NOT to buy decent quality food? Plain answer is no. Put **** in you get **** out. And frankly I want good quality ingredients with lots of flavour and decent nutrients going into my body. You just won't get that with inferior meat - fact.
That's why they cut off the '****' burns from their legs so that it fools people like you!!
Personally even if I didn't have a soul and care about the welfare of another living creature I sure as hell wouldn't want to eat something that has spent most it's life crawling around in it's own **** and ****
Looks can be very misleading
Star out swear words. And please don't swear. FF.
Indeed. I don't really care about the animals feelings - if I did I'd be a vegetarian.Even if you're indifferent about animal welfare, there is a taste difference between good quality produce and meat rather than intensively farmed rubbish.
I do however care about the taste and quality of my food, so I buy all my meat from a farmers cooperative.
My mum's friend has got a pair, I think it'd be awesome. I'm not one for pets, but they're useful.
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Its easier to buy them. They won't always lay one a day and you have to kill them after a while.
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Cant say I have as I will eat any chicken.
Besides Free range is more expensive, waste of money just to get what is basically the same as any other chicken.
you need to save as much money as you can for your fuel bills so you are excused from buying real food.