Tesco Chicken

[gollob]

Tesco have just announced that after July all the chicken products in their supermarkets will be British. So where is the chicken coming from that they are selling now. It's very frightening where some of there products come from

[sherrardk]

Georgiesmum - we have a Cargills chicken factory here who make chicken nuggets for KFC and other stuff for Asda, Co-op, Morrisons, etc and the chicken appears to be all local (I see the lorries transporting them and drive past the chicken farms a lot). Not saying its free range or anything, just that it does appear to be British, must be chicken factories dotted all over the country.

[DTCwordfan]

sorry Cherry Valley is in Lincs, I should have said Sun Valley in Herfordshire and elsewhere....

[DTCwordfan]

Sun Valley = Cargill Meats Europe and is a leading supplier of poultry products to retail, food service and food manufacturing customers. It has production facilities in Hereford, Wolverhampton, and Newent in the UK, and in France and Russia.

[sherrardk]

DTC - I would rather go to Sun Valley to buy chicken than pay the price the supermarket charges. At least if I buy chicken breast or thighs, etc from there I decide what I add to them, not someone else.

[DTCwordfan]

Must say I prefer to buy organic chicken when I can, sherrard, - that came about the day the BSE story broke - I was in Tescos HO in N London and they were going about what goes into a chicken that undergoes accelerated growth....converted me there and then!

[sherrardk]

Can't afford organic but at least I cook from scratch which has got to be better than some of the crap I could feed them (appreciate that most people are not lucky enough to be able to stay hime all day). Each to his own, I expect most people (I'm being nice) just do the best that they can.

[magsmay]

sherradk - organic meat is more expensive but you don't have to buy organic to buy free-range meat produced in the UK - Free-range is NOT organic (though it can be of course). Aldi have free-range chickens for £4-99 - a little smaller than their normal chickens but they are much tastier and I'd rather have a bit less chicken on my plate knowing it had had a better life. Try buying less quantity of good quality meat and bulking it out with vegetables or beans -you will soon realise the difference and never want to go back to cheap foreign meat.