Hugh's Chicken Run
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Exactly the same as battery chickens
Too all the people that say they will only eat free range chicken from now on... Does that mean you wont eat all the pies in the frozen section, all your chicken burgers, all the finger lickin good KFC (not sure what chicken they use)????
I think to just go free range is near impossible, but when buying just the meat etc then i prob would go free range.
Off topic - Has any one seen the other show (on yesterday and tonight) i think it is called kill it eat it something it. Basically last night they had a show on veal where an audience see a calf come in to the studio, see it get stunned hung up by its legs and have its throat cut (which looked suprisingly easy to do) and the blood drained. They then proceded to butcher the calf etc....
I am not too fussed by the killing process no matter how graphic some people may say it is. I will eat meat from what ever animal and i wouldnt like some of the $%^$&*%^(%(&^%&* people on the show become vegetarian. And finally i dont get how some people on the show just turned vegetarian instantly when they saw the calf being killed, i mean WTF??? wer they oblivious to the killing process of meat. &*^%&*^ stuipid people (this is not a go at vegetarians who have a "legitimate" reason for not eating meat (i.e they have done sufficient research in to it to come to an educated conclusion about it).
SORRY FOR ANY SPELLING MISTAKES, i cant be bothered to go an check it
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please don't if you don't like it fine buy your own stuff.
But there are those of use who really don't care tbh it tastes fine to me and many others, we like our cheap food, we don't care if you think its crap.
We don't want to have to pay more.
this guy has a point. people can make their own choice, especially if it comes down to expense. i know if i had a family to feed and buying free range meant my children went hungry then i would buy the battery farmed every time.
i dont agree with battery farmed chickens and will always buy free range but then i can afford to. many cant.
True enough on the money side of things, I bet the woman who upset Hugh by buying cheap chicken when he was in the supermarket had other luxuary items in her trolly when there would have been a cheaper version.
Fair enough if every item in her trolly was a value item but if one item was say Kellogs Cornflakes rather then Tescos ones it makes the difference.
Fair enough if every item in her trolly was a value item but if one item was say Kellogs Cornflakes rather then Tescos ones it makes the difference.
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Whats organic got to do with free range?
Im pretty sure you can get organic battery chickens, after all untreated natural feed covered in bird crap is still as nature intended.
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Watched this last night, only caught little bits of the previous episodes. I think it's a decent thing to campaign for, disgusting conditions to keep animals in.
I generally don't eat chicken as I think it's not on the same level as other meats, KFC and all the other chicken **** foods you can buy don't appear on the menu for me.
Only thing I buy is eggs and they'll always be free range, battery quality eggs = rubbish.
It's not going to change anything though, I think the main problem people had with this programme, is that it showed them things that they didn't want to know. A few weeks later when it's out of their mind they'll be back to buying dirt cheap low quality chicken.
I generally don't eat chicken as I think it's not on the same level as other meats, KFC and all the other chicken **** foods you can buy don't appear on the menu for me.
Only thing I buy is eggs and they'll always be free range, battery quality eggs = rubbish.
It's not going to change anything though, I think the main problem people had with this programme, is that it showed them things that they didn't want to know. A few weeks later when it's out of their mind they'll be back to buying dirt cheap low quality chicken.
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i still eat normal cheap chicken, im a student and cant afford free range chicken. The whole argument abobut only costing little more is rubbish £2 a week on chicken, adds to roughly £100 a year.
my other feeling on the situation was that if all chickens were to become free range where would the extra space available to raise them come from?
EDIT is it jsut me or the fact he has a free range store in the town make it all very dodgy
my other feeling on the situation was that if all chickens were to become free range where would the extra space available to raise them come from?
EDIT is it jsut me or the fact he has a free range store in the town make it all very dodgy
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He actively encouraged people to go and buy them from Tesco as that's where it mattered. I'm sure he's not short of a few bob so it's probably more to do with highlighting the horrible conditions, and also to show that they taste worse.
Edit: I'm also confused as to why it's such a huge deal that we can get low quality cheap chicken from our shops. Is there something wrong with people where they must have chicken every week?
Edit: I'm also confused as to why it's such a huge deal that we can get low quality cheap chicken from our shops. Is there something wrong with people where they must have chicken every week?
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Yeh watched a little bit of this last night - thought there were a lot of people who don't care about the conditions of these chickens - there living creatures & should be treated with respect + we eat them - they help us in a way.
If there is an after life i hope the people who don't care end up as battery chickens.
IMO - People are more interested in how much money they have in there pocket than respect for other animals. Okay it might cost more but the money they save buying battery chickens is probably spent on a pack of fags
They should be treated better and also ... tesco / adsa and stuff earn far to much £££ but they want to squeeze every penny of us and they dont care how they do it.
If there is an after life i hope the people who don't care end up as battery chickens.
IMO - People are more interested in how much money they have in there pocket than respect for other animals. Okay it might cost more but the money they save buying battery chickens is probably spent on a pack of fags
They should be treated better and also ... tesco / adsa and stuff earn far to much £££ but they want to squeeze every penny of us and they dont care how they do it.
When you buy chicken, do you buy
a) Chicken breasts only/Chicken Legs only
b) The whole chicken.
If b), do you use the whole chicken, do you use the whole chicken?
If you honestly already are buying the individual parts (because you have a taste dislike for certain bits), or if you buying the whole thing, and using the whole thing... then if buying the more expensive chicken is going to cause financial issues, then thats fair enough. I appreciate that students don't have much money.
BUT... if you are 'wasting' chicken that could be used if you spent some more time and imagination, then I would argue that going up to Free Range is something that you should at least consider.
People complain about the costs, but then they end up buying ready meals. These are very expensive I find, compared with buying the raw ingredients and prep'ing it all yourself. Pizza... why buy ready made, when you can make your own. My wife and I make cracking pizza, and I know exactly where all the ingredients have come from. At the end of the day, it's cheaper than buy the equivalent size pizza from somewhere else.
Ahhh, now that starts leading onto quite a fundamental issue. Basically, there's too many of us on the planet. If there were less people, we'd have more space to grow less food, and more space for breeding fewer chickens.
But, that's a discussion for another thread.
Well, he does have another career to think about. Having said that, it's not just him involved this week and next.
I mean, we've got Jamie Oliver doing some stuff about how all those 'lovely'
chicken nuggets get made. Then you have the Ramsey series of programmes too. Sure, they all have something personal to gain from it... but given the message is basically good in my opinion, fair plays to them.There's another programme on tonight as well, about mislabling food.
You think that animals should be reared in rather vile conditions just so you can save a few pounds ?
Paying a few more pounds so the animal you eat gets a better life is perfectly acceptable. If you don't have respect for the animals then you shouldn't be eating them.
Completely agree with what you've said.
I'd much rather buy quality ingredients and make my own stuff. It's much nicer and you know what's gone into it too.
I saw a slimfast advert last night so decided to go onto their website to see what stuff they were trying to peddle these days.
You know something's wrong when they're offering a raspberry smoothie that's only 14% raspberries and not suitable for vegetarians!
http://www.slimfast.co.uk/pg.asp?p=raspberry
And people think this stuff is healthy!
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sharknose, i agree with what you say, but i would like to point out that i make my food from raw ingredients. I always try and buy Qualtiy food(like veg from shop). The thing i find is that i use chicken for things like curry where i feel the quality is not as important as lets say a roast(which i rarely make at uni for obvious reasons).
My own opinion is i prefer free range for taste, but i have no issue about the breeding, as the animals are there to be mass produced in cheap chicken. I do think that the issue of free range chickens will become more apparent and like eggs there will be a big divide in the market in next few years.
My own opinion is i prefer free range for taste, but i have no issue about the breeding, as the animals are there to be mass produced in cheap chicken. I do think that the issue of free range chickens will become more apparent and like eggs there will be a big divide in the market in next few years.
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You have a full chicken once a week as a student?
Do you not have housemates that eat it all? Or is every lunchtime chicken sandwichs? On that note I didnt bother with chicken at uni for stuff like currys and pasta's, went with turkey instead, far cheaper.If it added £100 a year you could just eat less chicken .
Thats what i`m doing from now on,instead of having one cheap chicken a week i`ll be having one free range chicken every two weeks.
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Not particularly. If I was doing a TV programme building my own farm to show people I'd
a) build it on my own land
b)...
Actually thats all, by default it would be local people coming to see if and would make sense where you start the campain. Also hes far familiar with the local area and establishments