We’d like to remind Forumites to please avoid political debate on the Forum.
This is to keep it a safe and useful space for MoneySaving discussions. Threads that are – or become – political in nature may be removed in line with the Forum’s rules. Thank you for your understanding.
PLEASE READ BEFORE POSTING
Hello Forumites! However well-intentioned, for the safety of other users we ask that you refrain from seeking or offering medical advice. This includes recommendations for medicines, procedures or over-the-counter remedies. Posts or threads found to be in breach of this rule will be removed.📨 Have you signed up to the Forum's new Email Digest yet? Get a selection of trending threads sent straight to your inbox daily, weekly or monthly!
hughs chickens and tesco`s
Comments
-
How I looked at this:
- Tesco seemed to pass the blame on to the customers who actually eat the mass produced chicken, washing their hands of this.
I don't see it like that.
I see it as tesco selling what the majority of their customers want, and that is cheap chicken.
You have to remember that the vast majority of people don't care about what happened to the chicken before it was killed.I used to be a big fan of Tesco but now spend all my money at Asda, who I think(??) are equally as bad, however I was SHOCKED at how badly Tesco dealt with this issue.
They only dealt badly with it because they did not do what you and me wanted them to do. They think they dealt with it very well.
From their point of view they are just selling what their customers want, surely every business does that.
I don't shop at tesco's, but a few years ago i shopped online with them when I had a broken leg and could get out. I have looked online and they appear to sell FR chicken, so what is the problem (from their point of view)? They are selling FR chicken for those who want it, and cheap chicken for those who want that.I feel TESCO are 100% in the wrong when displaying "high standard" signs on their massed produced chicken and should either withdraw it or follow the freedom food standards.
I can't comment on that, I don't know who they raise their chickens. Although judging by the price I can guess!The 'media' women for TESCO did far far more harm than good, we laughed at how every point she made was pathetic.
Yes but the only people who heard her were those who were against Tesco anyway. Unless she annouced that Tesco were going to convert to totally FR chicken then she was never going to win.0 -
I buy my chickens from local butcher which are free range and cheaper than supermarkets but when I am in Tesco I look at shelf for free range and have yet to see any chickens on there. Either they are selling out quickly or just not putting any out. If they are that popular they really should be keeping the shelves stocked.0
-
Joining late - is the program still available to watch anywhere please?
Is meat cheaper in local butchers by the way? Got a decent butcher near here (queue at christmas is astonishing!) but always presume it will be pricey!matched betting: £879.63
0 -
irishwexford wrote: »when I am in Tesco I look at shelf for free range and have yet to see any chickens on there. Either they are selling out quickly or just not putting any out. If they are that popular they really should be keeping the shelves stocked.
I had this problem with my local Somerfield after the first HFW programme. At first you had to be in there before 9.00am to get FR chicken otherwise it was all gone. Gradually "the shock" of the programme wore off and people stopped buying it so much. After a while you could go in at 6.00pm and get it reduced to half price.
After that they simply didn't stock so much.
I don't know why Tesco don't have FR chicken on the shelves, it could be because the supply is just not there and they can't actually buy enough to satisfy demand.
Or it could be that they don't have the demand for them, so don't stock so much.
One thing I do know, if the supply was there and the demand was there, Tesco's would be selling it.
I don't believe for one minute that Tesco are not stocking FR chicken just to annoy HFW, or anybody else! Tesco are so big for one reason, and one reason olnly, they sell what the customer want's to buy at a good price.
I will sell you childrens clothes made by 7 year old Indian kids in a sweat shop without batting an eyelid. They will force the price of coffee down so much that south amercan farmers starve, and not lose a wink of sleep over it. They will force the price of milk and veg down so much that half the farmers in the Uk go out of business, and not care one jot.
Putting FR chicken on the shelves would be nothing to them. Nor would stopping selling chickens at 2 for a fiver, if people didn't buy them.
The reason they don't have enough FR chickens for sale is either becasue they can't get enough, or they can't sell enough.
The reason why they have chickens at 2 for a fiver is because they can get them, and sell them.0 -
Well, just managed to find the program on Channel 4's catch up service.
Firstly, I do not generally know how most of the produce (especially meats) have been treated on their way to the shelf, be it chickens, cows, sheep or pigs. However, from a health POV, there is surely a large difference in eating a scrawny diseased chicken as opposed to one that is (visually) a lot healthier, full set of feathers, jumping around exercising etc. What would people rather feed their kids? Luckily I don't have kids (although I don't buy chickens either as difficult to cook for one person), but it should be a dilemma parents take more seriously.
However on a more detached viewpoint - Tesco are creating an unsustainable supply chain by forcing farmers to sell for so little. Whomever is in charge of purchasing strategy at Tesco will find this and similar issues coming back to bite them in a few years once farmers decide they cannot continue in the same vein. As a buyer, I could probably make 101 different savings in my current role by adopting such a short term attitude. Would it keep my job a little more secure in the meanwhile? yes. But in the medium to long term the company will suffer. Although this point is fairly mute to consumers.matched betting: £879.63
0 -
However, from a health POV, there is surely a large difference in eating a scrawny diseased chicken as opposed to one that is (visually) a lot healthier, full set of feathers, jumping around exercising etc. What would people rather feed their kids?
This is true, it was shown that free range chickens are lower in fat and contain omega 3 which intensively reared chickens don't have because they haven't grown for long enough, nor had the exercise.0 -
I think that I have just done something that I am proud of.
I live in a small town that has 3 Tesco stores and a nice but slightly expensive for the essential stuff and have always shopped in Tesco.
I sort of knew what gits Tesco were. I have a friend who works in Marketing and she says that they are so horrible to branded goods. They force them to pay to have their goods in their shop and of course they take some of their profit as well!!!!
I have finally thought that the treatment of Hugh FW was so bad - the fee for the proposition at the AGM and their dismissal of his points that I have started shopping at Sainsburys.
I have to do it all by home delivery because they are not very near (not sure what this has done to my carbon footprint).
I think that until people start marching with their purses(women still do a huge % of the spending in Tesco - we have so much spending power to make a big difference. Women always underestimate their influence.) Tesco will still be the huge arrogant shop that they have been portrayed as.
Go Hugh!! We are all behind you!I have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat - Rebecca West
Weight loss 2010 - 1/7lbs :rolleyes:0 -
"Cheap, battery chickens are flying off supermarket shelves as purse strings tighten, but there is a way to stay welfare-conscious even on a tight budget."
Some thrifty chicken recipes by by Hugh Fearlessley Eats it All:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/jan/24/hugh-fearnley-whittingstall-chicken-recipes"The happiest of people don't necessarily have the
best of everything; they just make the best
of everything that comes along their way."
-- Author Unknown --0 -
I didn't watch the programme, but I am finally converted to free range chickens. I have learnt to make alternatives as a main part of a meal instead of chicken to help keeps cost down and like many others are saying, a chicken used to be a treat. Whereas battery chickens are so cheap now - for all the wrong reasons obviously, people have got used to eating them on a daily basis.Debt free wannabe
Littlewoods - £214.82 (DD set up so 0%)
Very - £100 (0% on BNPL - 1/4/13)
CC - £2600/£3533.53 (0% until 1/6/14)0
This discussion has been closed.
Confirm your email address to Create Threads and Reply

Categories
- All Categories
- 352K Banking & Borrowing
- 253.5K Reduce Debt & Boost Income
- 454.2K Spending & Discounts
- 245K Work, Benefits & Business
- 600.6K Mortgages, Homes & Bills
- 177.4K Life & Family
- 258.8K Travel & Transport
- 1.5M Hobbies & Leisure
- 16.2K Discuss & Feedback
- 37.6K Read-Only Boards