I agree, I get some when ever I go back to my parents. they get loads of fresh eggs of a family friend. Great for making an omlete or scrambled eggs. They just have so so much taste.But nothing beats proper eggs from a chicken that's had freedom
Hugh's Chicken Run
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Do you get double yolks? Thats one thing I wont ever forget about the chickens we had. Some of the eggs had double yolks in em
Occasionally bet it's very rare. It's just like twins.Do you get double yolks? Thats one thing I wont ever forget about the chickens we had. Some of the eggs had double yolks in em
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Yes the membrane cover inside the shell, it just falls off so you always get a perfect boiled egg if you peel it. hmmm all this talk of eggs, boiled or omelletted is making me hungry.. lol
Ah, the old breast vs. leg debates. Been going on for decades and decades.
...oh we are on about food?
As for the eggs, boil them and run them in cold water for several seconds. That shell will come off nice and easy, and the egg will still be hot.
...oh we are on about food?
As for the eggs, boil them and run them in cold water for several seconds. That shell will come off nice and easy, and the egg will still be hot.
Tonight's programme has really started to make me think strongly about campaigning for higher quality and ethically farmed food produce - not just chickens, but cattle, veg, even the stuff that goes into supermarket tins, pizzas and ready meals.
However unlike Hugh Fearnley Posh-ingstall, I think the best way is for the consumer to push this with their £, rather than trying to 'arrange a meeting' with the supermarkets. If we all make the effort to buy organic or free-range whenever possible, it should theoretically increase production and bring down the price of these products. I know this will be met with criticism and complaints from those on very tight budgets, but I'm sure there about plenty of people in the so-called 'middle classes' who could cut back on snack food and put their money into buying better quality organic / free range ingredients.
However unlike Hugh Fearnley Posh-ingstall, I think the best way is for the consumer to push this with their £, rather than trying to 'arrange a meeting' with the supermarkets. If we all make the effort to buy organic or free-range whenever possible, it should theoretically increase production and bring down the price of these products. I know this will be met with criticism and complaints from those on very tight budgets, but I'm sure there about plenty of people in the so-called 'middle classes' who could cut back on snack food and put their money into buying better quality organic / free range ingredients.
Sorry, this is slightly off topic, but I feel the need to point out that most organic food is such a con. I find it outrageous how the public are mislead on organic vegetables.
Organic foods, don't have herbicides or pesticides right? Wrong. Its a complete lie, herbicides and pesticides used include 'natrually found' heavy metal copper toxins, which are known to be toxic. The effects of them havn't been testing long term but thats ok, its organic!
I find it insulting when people think they are better because:
A) They arn't covered in chemicals, which is a lie.
B) They arn't as harmful to the environment, which is questionable.
Its just supermarket marketing convincing the public they are getting a better quality product, and making the consumer thinking they are making a morally correct decision. I'm all for free range foods, but organic food is a steaming con.
This isn't true for all organic food stores and farms, but if its mass grown from a supermarket, you can be assured the above happens to it.
And its for all those reasons that I get it from the local small holders where I can see what they are doing.
Also get a chance to talk to them and understand their thoughts and feelings.
Yeah, much better than legs. Thighs have a lot more flavour to them. I make a point of getting thighs for my curries, they just add extra taste to the them.
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I've been unfortunate enough to work in a factory/chicken farm i lasted a couple of hours before i walked out it was quite horrific.
First they get "sexed" the males and females get given to someone in a large crate these people then pick them up check their sex and then throw them (literally) into a funnel/tube that drops them into seperate crates and they're doing it so fast sometimes they miss and the baby chickens fall onto the floor and would be walking around and get stepped on.
the "sexed" crates would then be stacked ontop of eachother and while they were getting stacked the chickens would want to look over the edge of the crate and if they didn't move would promptly have a crate placed on their neck crushing it as they looked out
First they get "sexed" the males and females get given to someone in a large crate these people then pick them up check their sex and then throw them (literally) into a funnel/tube that drops them into seperate crates and they're doing it so fast sometimes they miss and the baby chickens fall onto the floor and would be walking around and get stepped on.
the "sexed" crates would then be stacked ontop of eachother and while they were getting stacked the chickens would want to look over the edge of the crate and if they didn't move would promptly have a crate placed on their neck crushing it as they looked out
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Just thought I'd add this (taken from wiki):
"Some organic pesticides, such as rotenone, have high toxicity to fish and aquatic creatures with some toxicity to mammals including humans."
Apprentely it also gives parkinsons disease to rats.
This campaign by Hugh has made me think twice about the meat I buy from now on. I have always bought free range eggs but from now on I will buy meat that is ONLY free range. Such a sickening thing to do, in this day and age. Im not a funny softy or anything, hell I even shoot rabbits with a 12 bore but breeding chickens like that what hugh did IS wrong.
Yeah they are, but most people just buy the 'drumsticks' when they buy chicken legs.
I live on a Dairy Farm.
We can't deliver Milk because you arn't allowed it... Because its not pasturised.
Our local egg farm do free range eggs..
Most farmers that grow Vegetables ( Arable Farming ) Do it on a large scale so its probably not proffitable.
EDIT - I'm going to add my say here
Farming chickens within those sheds is cruel and unacceptable IMO, Giving an animal a poorer quality of life just so the consumer can save a bit of money should never be allowed.
From now on I will make my parents buy Free Range chicken
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Same here. I actually feel like a bit of a hypocrite really because I've always bought free range eggs, even whilst I was at Uni. I will even buy a free range whole chicken on the odd occassion that we have one. However, I always just buy the cheap breast meat. It has just never even crossed my mind to buy free range even though my parents buy it and I know it tastes much better. We don't eat enough chicken for it to make a huge difference to our shopping spend, so I'm more than prepared to go free range. There is absolutely no way on earth I will ever turn vegetarian, but that doesn't stop me having a conscience about where the meat I cook comes from and how it's lived its life.
I totally agree with this, and personally will make the effort from now to buy free range, every time.
I have known exactly what the conditions in intensive chicken farming were like, ever since I was at secondary school, thanks to a good geography teacher. But as much as I was appalled by what I saw, now I'm in my 20's I've succumbed to the 'price conscious consumer mechanism' that kicks in as you wander the aisles.
To me, the scariest thing is not what will happen if you eat an intensively farmed chicken now, but what will happen if we, as consumers, allow our food production standards to slip further?
'Organic food' is a whole different ball game by the sounds of what people here have said. I'll approach this by looking carefully at my supermarket's organic policy.
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