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[tim]

Yes - lots of humane thoughts under KEPT ANIMALS, but we're talking about eating the things?

Looked in - unusually - on the Beeb's Food Thing. Same subject.

Was shattered. Only one person knew the logo for Freedom Foods..........??

And several saying that they care not for welfare...........??

[tim]

[Hyacinth]

Tim, I'm not surprised... :(......did a quick ring-round of my clients-of-a-certain-age group today who regularly take Ring'n'Ride weekly to Morrisons etc & buy 'value' birds,  or had phone calls from them - belated New Years Greetings? Teensy bit of digging = not one of them watched the programme.....wot! 9.00 pm when a film was showing?.....and a Documentary to boot? :-\

A teensy ''survey' granted, but I suspect that unless the ante is raised and the issue is aired in the prime-time slots on programmes the target audiences watch (ie Richard & Judy etc. for this age group) it'll all pass them by.

That's number-crunching, viewer-ratings for you, I feel?

[calendula]

the media is getting quite intense about this and maybe eventually all will realise what is going on - not only the horrible life of the animal but the rubbish they are fed that humans then go on to eat, considering we are what we eat this is more than worrying - ignorance is not bliss but as always it is down to the multi national companies to take a stand otherwise the buying public will always vote with their feet - depressing

hope you are better Tim  :)

[tim]

Soon, I hope!!

[Rob the rake]

Sadly though, Tim, I don't think the average punter gives a monkey's, and would much rather ignore the issue than confront it.

[northener]

Well its certainly got folk talking about it round here. Went to sons archery class and it was the main topic and same in the pub. Wife informs me their was no free range left at tescos.

[tim]

Archery - yes, that's it.  Shot my own fish many times!!

[calendula]

 ;D  ;D

hunter gatherers - we'll all be better off when we get back to basics

[tim]

The neighbours' cats will be next!!

I see that Countrywide sell catapults.

[jennym]

The neighbours' cats will be next!!

I see that Countrywide sell catapults.

GRRRR neighbours' cats are a sore point here. New neighbour has five cats, along with lord knows what else. The cats have decided my garden is the perfect place to deposit their little offerings, and I've spent all morning clearing up cat muck, and then covering the beds with twiggy stuff to stop them getting on.
Unfortunately, I don't believe cat has the same flavour as decent chicken or I'd be sorely tempted.

[jennym]

Sorry to digress from the original topic.
IMHO the problem of battery chickens, cheap food and the like won't be solved until we are all educated NOT to waste food, and NOT to expect meat to be cheap.
The cost of all the food wasted in Britain must be astronomical. One article I read said 6,000,000 tonnes of household food waste was generated each year. That's about 100kg per person per year. If we as a nation can afford to do that, we can afford to pay more for food and not waste it.

[valmarg]

Well jennym, I did a long reply, particularly concerning your worries about waste, but having pressed the post button, it has sodded off somewhere into the ether!!  It is a problem I have had before, but dan  just doesn't seem to want to address it!!

valmarg

[calendula]

this is probably because the problem is with your computer and not the site else it would be happening a great deal

when it does happen try clicking on your 'back' key a couple of times and that should bring the original post back or go to 'additional options and click the 'return to this topic' and that should bring you back as well to check if the post has gone through

[tim]

Waste? And the just out-of-date stuff that no one is allowed to touch??

[northener]

I sometimes work at a packaging plant where they pack tomatoes, cucs,peppers the amount of waste is unbelievable. Wrong shape, wrong colour,too ripe, not ripe enough, wrong size. All thrown into a skip. They also do fruit cocktails for the supermarkets melons flown in from Brazil and chile same again theirs more thrown away then gets used. Crazy.

[rosebud]

Just to digress for a moment, Jenny M, go to a garden centre and buy some RENADINE, I THINK THAT IS HOW YOU SPELL IT OPPPPS,
Dip small pieces of rag into it or string & tie it on twigs, do KEEP AWAY from all your plants though, it does work i have used it ,gives of a strange smell which we cannot detect.  Not cheap about £8 but worth it lasts a long time  though.
Good luck.Rosebud ;D

[tim]

I would like to have the Celery binned from Celery Hearts.

[jennym]

go to a garden centre and buy some RENADINE...

I'll try anything! thanks rosebud.

[Jeannine]

A bit off topic, but I used to accept wild duck breasts from a friend till I found out they shoot them, knife off their breast parts and chuck the rest away in the bush.

I have nothing against hunting and gathering but the poor bird ought at least to be fully used.

XX Jeannine

[tim]

Same with pigeons.