Full Chicken £2 Asda

suewiththeblues

for god sake i really wish these do-gooders would take their arguments to the vent board rather than hijacking these grabbit threads - am sick of wading through hundred of carp posts to get to the real info :mad: most of us are aware of these issues but the lifestlye of the chicken is not uppermost in the mind of someone who has not been able to afford chicken for ages cos of the price:mad:

kazaimee

i bought one today and will eat it tomorrow.i will have a clean conscience.its cheap and what i can afford.plus the whole point what you are missing is it is dead now and the chicken would not have known any other life than it had anyway! if it was free range then made to live in a shed with several thousand others then their is a problem, but it didn't end of!

Lütz_Pangaloo

suewiththeblues wrote: »

for god sake i really wish these do-gooders would take their arguments to the vent board rather than hijacking these grabbit threads - am sick of wading through hundred of carp posts to get to the real info :mad:

Crikey - nothing "koi" about you is there!

:rotfl:

EDIT: Don't worry - I know you did it on purpose.

kazaimee wrote: »

i bought one today and will eat it tomorrow.i will have a clean conscience.its cheap and what i can afford.plus the whole point what you are missing is it is dead now and the chicken would not have known any other life than it had anyway! if it was free range then made to live in a shed with several thousand others then their is a problem, but it didn't end of!

I know what you're saying, but I don't think it's an argument that holds much water.

There are disabled children in Turkish orphanages that have never been held, or even been out in the sunshine, and sure, many will stay that way until they die, but that doesn't make it right.

The idea of human beings kept in those conditions will outrage you I'm sure, even perhaps move you to tears (as it did when I first heard about it), but ofcourse a child is not a chicken, and for most of us it's easy to disconnect the two, me included.

But for others the shocking bleakness and cruelty of intensive farming is equally outrageous, and whether or not it's what people want to read on here, I'm happy for them to have their say - afaic it's an on-topic and balanced debate, with no need to get personal or SHOUT.

beyond_skint

I bought a free range chicken the other day, it was my first. It cost me £5.75 yes it was nice and it felt good knowing it had quite a nice life first, but all I kept thinking was, I could have bought 2 for the same price.
The taste was no different to warrant me spending the extra again. I shall carry on buying what I can afford and what ever's on offer.

I am looking into buying some chickens of my own for their eggs, not sure I will be able to kill them, once they've been named and kept for a while though.:D

Princess_Coupon

My MIL always has about 12 chickens she keeps for eggs and they are as free as it gets, they spend all day scratching around 2 acres of land then get locked in their coop on a night, sounds like chicken heaven I hear you say well not quite quite. For a start not all of them always make it in the coop about once a month you hear bood curdling screams as one gets chased down then savaged by a fox/dog/unidentified ferret type creature. Then those that make it to the coop have to endure the pecking order lessons by the 1 or 2 domanant hens, where they are literally repeatedly pecked to teach them whose boss and to stay away from the good perches. On rare occasions 1 is actually pecked to death.
I can always tell the ones that are a couple of years old as they are half bald and have a few scabs on them.
This is clearly their natural behaviour as they have very little human contact and are semi wild.
It seems to me a chickens life is going to be fairly bleak regardless of which side of the factory wall they are born.

Back on point when does the offer run till? not sure if I can get to Asda in the next couple of days

buxtonrabbitgreen

Thanks for this op. I got all the bargains in Asda yesterday thanks to the posts on here. Stardrops 20p chickens £2 Quorn pieces and mince £1 and butter 47p.
I don't normally shop in Asda, but am very pleased with the bargains. I also picked up a lime and coriander marinade reduced to 10p. So that will make the chickens more interesting.

brightonman123

do the red tractor / farm assured (well they wouldnt say its bad, would they??) labels actually count for anything??

its either free range, or it aint.


and who's to know the cheap (to breed) chickens arent being sold as 'posh' ones?

lalamb

jessicar wrote: »

:rotfl::rotfl: I'm not the one getting personal - in fact I find you more scary - I'm only little!

I'm off to find some free range organic chickens to pat on the head :D

do the red tractor / farm assured (well they wouldnt say its bad, would they??) labels actually count for anything??

its either free range, or it aint.


and who's to know the cheap (to breed) chickens arent being sold as 'posh' ones?

Well, jessicar says her chickens have heads, maybe that's the difference

loopy_lass

i like to think i can buy ethically when £ permits, however in this economic climate, i would rather feed my children good food as principles dont fill their bellies....

sorry

andy79

Well I went to the Asda at Eastlands in Manchester and got three of the little !!!!!!s.

Officially, I think they are all meant to weigh 1.55 kg or something like that but some are bigger than others. Anyway the easiest way to pick the biggest ones are to look at the cooking times. These differ on each chicken. Obviously the ones with the longer cooking times are the biggest..