Hugh's Chicken Run

Deluxe1 said:
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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Indeed, if this happened you would see free range stuff fall in price too as the consumer demands more you get economys of sale.

This is where things like the Red tractor are good to maintain standards, if free range chickens became part of a supermarket price war you could start seeing free range pultry less free than the consumers assumption.
 
Jonnycoupe said:
Indeed, if this happened you would see free range stuff fall in price too as the consumer demands more you get economys of sale.
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You do realise that it would be pretty impossible for free range farms to keep up with demand if everybody started buying free range? There's a reason why both broiler and battery chicken farming are so intensive. They would need a heck of a lot more land to raise the same number of free range birds.

The free range farms would make a killing.


Pun intended.
 
I wasnt suggesting ALL chicken to be free range.

Says a lot when chickens are worth less than toilet roll you flush down the toilet though. They are clearly cheaper than they are supposed to be.

Here in the UK we're hardly strapped for space either, although if a battery farm converted to free range, and people viewed it as more of a treat then it wouldn't really make a huge difference to space used.

Are any other animals bred as intensively? Pigs?
 
It seems to have had some effect though. I was trying to get free range chicken breasts at Tesco yesterday and two shelves worth of free range chicken had sold out.
 
I'm sure there will be an item in the media somewhere if there is any significant change. It would be great if there was. If anything sees anything let us know!
 
I watched Jamie Oliver's program last night. Unfortunately I'm still going to buy the cheapest option.

I mean did all these people who are being "converted" really have no idea? I knew, but thought it was awful and it is awful. It was just as bad as I thought but no worse.
 
I watched the program and agreed with it to a point. I thought jamie oliver talking and the rspca version with slightly slower growth rate and less chickens per square metre is a reasonable start. And jamie seemed to find it more acceptable as he realised complete free range chickens is not as simple as it may appear to fix.

One thing I would have liked would have to seen shopping bills from several families averaged over time and how the could change it to afford the free range chicken. I bet some of these families bills are full of coke (coca-cola version) and full of junk that could be decreased or changed to value versions.
 
markyp23 said:
Um... I'm not sure. I don't think it makes a difference. They aren't going to stop intensive farming if I buy the free range one.
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If you can afford it, go to a farm shop and buy some proper meat. You will taste the difference. I buy cheap meat but that's due to cost. If you think there's no different you will be absolutely shocked, when you try some good quality meat.
 
This is incredibly one-sided. Free range chickens do not lead a happy, free and run-around life. In fact, being dumped in a field is a chicken's worst nightmare; they will be permanently scared on alert - in nature, they forage at dusk and night, and spend the rest of their times in a hole, small cavern or bush (some nest). Rarely do they come out in day light as they are ideal picking for a fox (cannot fly much, are slow and cumbersome).

Also, in free range and battery chickens they all get their beaks cut off because they peck each other continuously (agony either way).

I really do not like how this show presents the way that free range chicken is farmed is the nicest way to farm chickens; there are ups and downs to both; in any case, if a chicken is not outdoors with bushes, hedgerows etc they will not be happy.

I also think we have bigger problems in this world to solve, before we get onto the welfare of things we buy wrapped in clingfilm.
 
At the end of the day it's all a load of ******** hypocrisy anyway. I don't see what difference it makes if a chicken gets to wander about a field or gets stuffed in a cage and mutilated, the end result is the same.

People who go on about eating free range chickens because it's kinder to chickens just make me want to punch them in the face.
 
loopstah said:
People who go on about eating free range chickens because it's kinder to chickens just make me want to punch them in the face.
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Tbh you have serious problems there is far more important things in life than people who eat free range chicken, all you are doing is showing what a pratt you are
 
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chesterstu said:
Tbh you have serious problems there is far more important things in life than people who eat free chicken, all you are doing is showing what a pratt you are
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No, I'm all for eating free chicken. Where can I get free chicken from?

It just amazes me how some people think they are better than others because they eat an animal that had a reasonably happy life before being slaughtered and butchered, compared to one that was abused and mistreated. At the end of the day your eating something whose sole purpose in life was to be killed and eaten, so there really is no moral high ground.
 
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