Topic: what is price of a turkey in the uk?

[saddad]

We all eat meat here Betty... but when we have veggie friends round we cook veggie... it does us no harm to go meat free once in a while..  :-X

[grawrc]

...Mel if you know that it is fabricated by animal rights activists can you explain?

If not perhaps we have to face up to our own inhumanity?

Yes please!
Probably not appropriate in "Recipes".  I'll post in "Watershed".

[Digeroo]

wild turkeys  can be vicious nasty birds

This is off topic as well. ;D

Wild turkeys in very short supply here in the uk as far as I know. 

[plainleaf]

Melbourne12

the birds are deprived of a natural environment, and (worst of all to my mind) they are bred to be monsters - either monstrous egg producers or monstrous growers.

turkey in nature attack mode
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJSGIt-4MXE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nBw4lP8bwg
no need breed monsters

[Melbourne12]

Melbourne12

the birds are deprived of a natural environment, and (worst of all to my mind) they are bred to be monsters - either monstrous egg producers or monstrous growers.

turkey in nature attack mode
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJSGIt-4MXE&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nBw4lP8bwg
no need breed monsters

Last year, on our motorbike tour, we stopped off for our annual pilgrimage to Cabela's.  I was seriously tempted by a T-shirt with a silhouette of a wild turkey and the legend, "Droppin' the hammer on thunder chickens".

Perhaps fortunately they didn't have it in my size.  ;D

[green lily]

Which one of the reasons we're having organic lamb from up the road. I'd have to rear my own turkey to be happy although I've now been told a local farmer in the village does do a few for Christmas but on the whole IMO its over rated. I'd rather have a pheasant or duck even a rabbit thats had a bit of a run-around.

[plainleaf]

i seen blind taste tests of turkeys cooked the same way.
the tasters  could not tell organic from free range and or conventional grown
apart.

[Squash64]

i seen blind taste tests of turkeys cooked the same way.
the tasters  could not tell organic from free range and or conventional grown
apart.

Maybe the tasters couldn't tell the difference, but I bet the turkeys could.

[plainleaf]

no one cares what turkeys think since they the turkeys are dead.

[kt.]

We are doing christmas dinner for 10.  Our turkey is free as brother-in-law is providing it as his contribution to the meal. ;)

[Squash64]

no one cares what turkeys think since they the turkeys are dead.

How about while they were alive?

[plainleaf]

since you don't eat meat squash64 it not your concern. since i doubt speak turkey they not likely to tell you.

[galina]

since you don't eat meat squash64 it not your concern.

I don't understand this point of view.  Whether we do or do not eat meat, animal welfare is (or should be) all our concern.

[plainleaf]

galina concern is matter of prospective vegetarians and animal rights nuts do it to make meat eaters feel guilty.  I don't comment on there torture of plants which have been show to feel pain. all animals take life to gain food in most case humans are more humane. guess no one here has watched to family cat or dog kill a mouse. I have and all human do in raising animal for food is more humane then watching a cat.   as i said many years ago

the meat eaters are afraid the vegetarian are trying to convert them and
the  vegetarian are scared of the meat eaters will try to eat them.