CHICKENS,HUGH AND TESCO TOO

[betula]

Channel 4 now.

[betula]

[Patrick King]

im watching it now

[manicscousers]

me, too, I'm waiting for a tesco advert to come on  ;D

[kt.]

Not going to bother with it.  I think hugh is a pain in the ass.  Cant stand the fella. 8)

[Mrs Ava]

Love Hugh, but then we could all afford to eat amazing food if we were getting a nice wage packet from channel 4.

[betula]

Love him or hate him ,he does have the ear of the public.

I would leave chicken off the menu if I could not afford free range.

The sight of the disgusting treatment of the chickens just makes me feel I have no wish too be a part of it all.

[thifasmom]

i have to agree love or hate is not the issue, the public for too long has been hood winked about the food being sold to them and the more people who are willing to expose the lack of informed choice available to the public re their food intake the better.

i know for myself it was what i found about the meat industry as a whole not just in Britain made myself and my husband choose to leave animal products to the best of our knowledge out of our diet (this was 11 years ago), if i was in a position to raise my own meat we would not have gone vegan, but at least i can try to produce most of my fruit and veg even if it is a slow pace at times.

i saw a show a few months ago (can't remember the title) but it was along the lines of most disgusting food in Britain, and one of the dishes they looked at was the commercial apple pie, well after i saw what was basically wallpaper paste and a few pieces of apple being passed along as food. i just knew no more cheap apple pie for me (not that i buy it but if i go out to relatives or a friend's house its sometimes offered as a sweet after a meal, etc) over the Christmas i simply wasn't able to put any in my mouth.

so he may be getting a fat pay check from Ch4 but won't you like to be paid big bucks to do something you like/ feel passionate about as he says he does ( i can only go by what he's said :-\). i know i would love a big fat pay check to expound on the benefits of growing and eating your own, etc, etc, etc and any of my other interests ;D.

[valmarg]

I think the programme you watched thifasmom was 'The True Cost of Cheap Food'.  It was shown last Thursday, and again tonight at 11.05-12.10.

valmarg

[thifasmom]

I think the programme you watched thifasmom was 'The True Cost of Cheap Food'.  It was shown last Thursday, and again tonight at 11.05-12.10.

valmarg

nope it wasn't this one the one i saw definitely had the word disgusting in it :).

but this one you mentioned also sounds interesting what channel was it on?

i watched a replay of dispatches today it was concentrating on the topic of cheap food being made with better or more ingredients and the supermarkets taking a small cut in their billion dollar profit margins to ensure it still reached the customer at an affordable price (especially for the low budget incomes).

it was pushing the argument that along with the benefit of being a marketing giant they should also have a moral/ social responsibility to provide better food to the public re the nation's health...........

[les65]

all tesco could say was they wont change IF THEIR customers spending habits dictated that they wanted cheap chicken raised in a manner that was not suitable for any living thing.
i urge everyone to make it known to tesco that we dont want tesco to treat these animals as cruel as they do. i do not like supermarkets and dislike tesco more than any of them.
(from the mail 1st october) Tesco's profits surged by £146million in the first half of the year while shoppers were hit with a punishing rise in food bills.
Britain's biggest and richest retailer made a staggering £1.43billion in the six-month period - equivalent to £55million a week.
they could take the extra price of the better raised chickens off their vast profits without it hurting them,but they dont, they ALWAYS blame the customers spending habits.
you go into tesco (my local one) has 5 shelves of cheap tortured chickens, one shelf of free range, and half a shelf of better welfare chicken, surprisingly the free range and better welfare shelves are always empty,
if they reduced the cheap tortured chickens and increased the free range and better welfare, they would sell more.
i do not buy any meat from the supermarket i have a local butcher who i get better cuts from and cheaper. take a letter into your tesco demanding they change their ways.
make their excuse their downfall.

[valmarg]

It was on Channel 4 tonight.  The thing with these programmes, they are repeated quite a few times, and I shall look out to see when it is on again, and let you know if I find it.

I could not become a vegetarian, let alone a vegan.  An old aunt reckoned that the first word I spoke was 'meat'. ;D  I would find life extremely difficult without meat.

We do our best to buy locally sourced humanely reared produce.

With regard to the cheap chicken, one item sticks out in my memory was a 'ruddy good value' chicken.  It was extremely cheap, and seemed like a bargain at the time.  When we came to eat it, it was dreadful. Tasteless pap.

I think that was one thing that HF-W left out of his programme.  The fact that the chicken 'tastes' better if it has had a free run, room to scratch, etc.  The basic chicken Tesco produce is tasteless pap.

valmarg

[thifasmom]

It was on Channel 4 tonight.  The thing with these programmes, they are repeated quite a few times, and I shall look out to see when it is on again, and let you know if I find it.

I could not become a vegetarian, let alone a vegan.  An old aunt reckoned that the first word I spoke was 'meat'. ;D  I would find life extremely difficult without meat.

I'll check and see if its on virgin catch up TV.

when i was a meat eater i enjoyed it but as a young adult it was never a big part of my diet a legacy i took from my childhood, so it was relatively easy to give up, now i don't miss it at all. but still miss (a little) and will partake in strong cheeses when I'm given the opportunity ;) (like when I'm in France visiting my sis and her husband).

With regard to the cheap chicken, one item sticks out in my memory was a 'ruddy good value' chicken.  It was extremely cheap, and seemed like a bargain at the time.  When we came to eat it, it was dreadful. Tasteless pap.

I think that was one thing that HF-W left out of his programme.  The fact that the chicken 'tastes' better if it has had a free run, room to scratch, etc.  The basic chicken Tesco produce is tasteless pap.

valmarg

yes its a point he didn't make in tonight's programme, but I've heard him make this point before, and one of the things he summarised through a small public taste test is the public have gotten so used to eating substandard meats and other products that the palate of most of Joe public doesn't even recognise the superior tasting food as better tasting it almost seems to be that their taste buds have become used to the pap :-\ :-X.

[les65]

if god didnt want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat ;D ;D ;D

[star]

Everything I eat is vegetarian ;D ;D ;D

[Moonbeam65]

Not a great fan of Hugh but i did like this programme Taking on the likes of Tesco is no mean feat and if the outcome is making the short life of chickens better then i have to say to him well done and to Tesco and others the public don't always think that cheap at any price is the best.

Now i wonder who is going to come on to the telly next to fight the corner of farmers who are not getting a fair price for the milk there cows produce ?

[ACE]

I have sent a letter to Tesco. I will never use their shop again if they let the likes of HFW dictate how I should be buying my chicken. I like bland, I like cheap, I don't give a  ~@)* about how my meat gets there.

But most of all I do not want to be told by a pratish TV chef who everybody thinks the sun shines out of his @rse.

[Froglegs]

It's all to do with price some people just cannot afford so called happy chicken.

[manicscousers]

I wouldn't imagine chicken mc.crapburgers come from happy chickens, either  :)
I thought tesco's came out in quite a bad light, wouldn't use them anyway

[timnsal]

nope it wasn't this one the one i saw definitely had the word disgusting in it :).

Britain's really disgusting foods
presented by Alex Riley

I remember it because our lot were struck by the sheer awfulness of the ad campaign they developed as part of it, and went around singing "Mr Riley's pies" for weeks afterwards :-[

Sally

[les65]

ACE your CONSCIENCE should dictate what one you should buy.

FROGLEGS i have fed 6 on a tight budget many many times i do not think price is an issue. say they are 3.50 each or two for a fiver just pay 4.50 for a better one and there you go better off by 50p


MANICSCOUSER  chicken mc.crapburgers kfc and the like all use cruel chicken and you right more noise should be made about these evil wrongdo ers too.