chickenout campaign... boycott tesco??

[sheribee]

Hi all x if you watchen chicken, hugh and tesco too on mon eve u will kno what im on about lol x
I would love to know, 1) If any of you will be boycotting tesco ( as i do) till they agree to improve chicken welfare, and 2) if anyone has changed their poultry eating habits since the show last year? And if not, why?
Im so passionate about this campaign i myself have banished all forms of broiler poultry, in favour of only free range, inc. pet foods, hot dogs.. read the labels, they have squashed poultry in them.. yum xx
chickens need our help xx

[natalie_1982]

Hi seribee, I didn't watch last night's show, but I refuse to buy meat from supermarkets anyway; I use a local butcher.

I did watch last year's egg programme though and now ensure I buy "happy" eggs, wherever I am buying them from whether it is butchers or supermarket.

[Nosha123]

Havent watched it yet - as its on Sky+ saved for me...

I am a meat eater.. and not really a big veggie fan.. so I always try to buy organically farmed meat - especially Chicken. Aside from having a phobia about chickens (they look like they want to peck your eyes out!) I dont think it fair they should live a miserable life just to fill my stomach... I feel much happier eating a chicken that was once a happy chicken...
Everytime I see someone buying those cheap economy chicken breasts I feel like going up to them and telling them what happens to the poor creature!
I did buy some organically farmed chicken cat food - but so far Harvey Pickle Pants is not too impressed!!! He prefers some of ours!!!

[carmalee]

with you all the way - for a million years have only been eating 'happy meat' , specially locally shot game- even though its more expensive - just have less - couldn't bear the though of eating boiler raised chicken. having said that I do know that many families aren't in my position and the difference between a cheap meal and a responsibly sourced one is a lot to some. maybe the answer is more education but if a person doesn't want to be taught, you can't teach um unfortunately.

[mrrobbo15]

people will always want cheap chicken....

no matter what anyone thinks is right or wrong.

2 birds for a fiver is 2 meals ...... one 'happy' bird for a fiver is only one meal...... its as simple as that.

and the catering trade, arent bothered where their chicken comes from as long as its cheap.

the � is king for many many people.

sad but true.

after last years free range show...... being a butcher, we were asked to get free range chicken...... we ordered 30 birds a week but the producers couldnt cope, so we couldnt get them...... maybe 5/8 a week........... but, im sad to say after 6 weeks or so, even 5 a week was too many and ended up on the 'reduced to clear' shelf

[terambulan]

sheribee.......you could waste more time trying to track down the 'free range' chicken farm.

I set the challenge as impossible to locate.....show me one current address.

[Rollo]

I can't really boycott Tesco.

I never shop there.

[sheribee]

I tried getting free range from my local butcher, they wanted �11!!!!! I went to aldi, where i get norfolk reared free range chooks from for �5, and get 2 meals out of it, roast on sunday for 3 adults and 2 kids, and then rissotto on monday, made to hughs recipe on chickenout.tv wensite. 2 meals for �5!!!!!!
Plus enough chicken stock to make homemade soup for 2, AND extra chicken to put in it..... i feel i really get the best out of the bird.
Some supermarkets charge studip prices for the free range birds, but if you dont mind shopping around to find out the cheapest store then its affordable to everyone.
We get disability pay for my hubby and tax credits, so we are on a real tight budget, i spent �37 on a full weeks shop today at aldi, including my free range chook.
Yes the cats feed is more expensive, and the hot dogs too, but i DO NOT want to be eating squashed reformed chicken, which are left over from birds kept in battery cages.
People can afford this, the demand is there as hugh has proved, these chooks live in their own pee and ***** for weeks.... do u really want to eat that?? the way they live, and die is horrendous, cruel and inhumane, now If that doesnt put u off then i have no clue how u eat ur sunday dinner, or kfc and cant feel sick x

[mrrobbo15]

we sold 1.8kg birds for �6.50 .....and normal ones are �3.65......

so im not surprised �11 for a bird..... i am surprised at audis' price tho..... are they british ?

i know for a fact, the free range producers couldnt cope with demand after the show last year..so sure there is/was demand, but with demand, up goes the price

sure free range is better but it wont happen, the chicken industry wont let it...

again, im not saying its right, tis just how it is.....sad but true

[tiggerblue10]

For the last few years I have been buying ethically reared chickens. I usually get the Willown Farms ones from Tesco and even though they are slightly more expensive than the standard ones I can make 3 meals out of them including soup with the carcass. I have also cut down on buying products containing chicken as you don't know what kind of chickens are used to make them.

I have also heard that all battery hen farming will be banned by 2012 or something like that anyway. I buy either Willow Farm or Free Range eggs. I shudder to think of the conditions of those that lay Tesco Value eggs!

I will be writing to Tesco regarding this issue.

[mrrobbo15]

my opinion.... if everyone wants to stop battery chicken farming.... is not question supermarkets but question the catering trade.... pubs/resturants/take aways these are the people that will buy any chicken.

and i say 'chicken' loosly as up to 40% can be added water or chemicals....most of it imported from the far east into the EU and then labelled as such.

its a terrible law that allows it to happen,

[sheribee]

I wanted a free range turkey for 5 people for xmas, my local butcher quoted me �70!!! I nearly died!! So off i went to asda and bought a free range chook for �6, who needs turkey just for xmas!
Aldi i think are german, the same as lidl. They too sell standard birds cheap as chips again, but if u look closely u can see the tell tale signs, hocks removed, different colouring, swollen breasts from the extra hormones and feed.
only people power can change this, we need to make a stand together and say NO to poultry cruelty!
I have boycott Tesco for a year now, and will never shop there again... yes im just 1 person, but if more join in surely they have to listen to a drop in proffit xx