Hello

Not sure if anyone is watching - but what does everyone think of putting the whole ' chicken ' thing onto the telly!????

Personally, I'm sure I've eaten really badly reared 'battery or intensively' farmed chicken - who hasn't....

However, friends of mine rear their own pigs and now I only have pork / bacon from their pigs.... They have just aquired 3 hens, however they are only leg layers, so I still don't know where my chicken comes from.

If I think about it - it makes my skin crawl...

anyone else have views..?

Bx

You're going to have to explain, what telly, what chicken, what happened

Hey all

Hes showing how chickens are raised and processed to give us our modern foods in close up technicolour.

I don't have any problem with it, I no longer have many illusions about the state of our food but as a nation we demand cheap and plentiful food. This is how it is achieved.

If we want better food we have to be willing to pay for it and accept that there will be people who can't.

cheers
TL

Hey!

Currently there are a few programmes on the telly about intensive farming.

Jamie Oliver is associated with home grown / organic food, and he's currently on telly showing what the differences are in teh UK with differently reared Chickens and Eggs.

He's comparing the extremes of Battery Eggs to free Range.

He is also one in a number of 'chefs' trying to bring to the attention of the buying public about how thier food is reared. It's been going on for a while in UK, with pressure to bring back real organic and home reared meats.

He was a grea topic for discussion when he did his programme about School Dinners when he all on his own took off 'Turkey Twizzlers' from the menu - and tried introducing real food to the school menu.

Personally I would always eat home reared food - I have no issues with killinh food to eat it - did it from a young age with fish in particular. Friends of mine as I said have pigs each year and I happily take care of them and then eat them. I think it is vital all communities / kids / parents / supermarkets can say where and why they eat things.

In Jamie's case, He is trying to rid the UK of 'battery' eggs, and also the intense farming that happens to chickens for eating.

What a long rabbling I've made. Sorry!

B

hi bandit i wish i had chickens like your friend i could do with a new leg

LOL

A chicken leg or one for yourself!

My friends currently only have egg hens - but if their dogs have anything to do with it - they are for far more than that!!!!

Personally I would love to raise all that ate, sadly I can't. But I do where I can - eat home grown food...

B

As bad as modern factory farming has become, I see no alternative to it, unless we cull the population back to 1940's level through mass starvation.

Maybe they will invent a really good alternative to meat/eggs/veggies etc, but it would have to have a great catchy name, how's about "Soylent Green"

We have backyard chickens but if that's what Jamie Oliver recommends I'm off to buy from Loblaws.

Hey fella, been working hard then? I thought you finished your billion lines a while ago?

Who the hell is Jamie Oliver?

I got a Jamie Oliver cookbook for crimbo and there are huge parts of it dedicated to where your food comes from, which is fine for people that have stacks of dosh and loads of time to go to each and every butcher (i've not even been to a dedicated butcher here).

If I personally had to kill something to eat it, I'd be a vegetarian, if I worked on a meat farm or in a slaughter house or in a meat processing factory, i'd be a vegetarian.

I don't like modern day farming methods and I don't like the fact that stuff is pumped full of water and hormones and I don't like this genetic farming or whatever it's called but I do like being able to afford meat for every night of the week if we want it.

Hi bandit

Yes have been able to see the programmes so far here in Canada, I really enjoyed Hughe's 2 shows where he brought Jamie on board. Although I am finding it hard to understand how so many people are not aware how most chickens are breed nowdays, think it is just them not wanting to admit to it.

It never ends. My client keeps buying US banks and needing the data rolled into their system in the middle of the night at no notice.

Oliver is unique in affecting an estuary accent. He gets on my tits.

He really annoys me too. Mockney estuauy accent, pretending he had a rough upbringing.
:curse:

Gordon Ramsay, otoh, for him I might turn.

very handy, I'm sure......................