Full Chicken £2 Asda

keith99_2

leiela wrote: »

Good Lord,

How is it a thread about cheap chickens can become a slagging match. Seriously for those of you that care about the welfare of chickens the solution is simple, don't buy them.

But please please please, allow other people to make there own mind up, its about freedom of choice and frankly some people don't care.

I worked for 6 months in a chicken factory and trust me when i say the so called "free range" chickens don't have things "much" better than the barn bred chicken, besides at the end of the day both birds are killed using the EXACT SAME methods the free range chickens don't get an easy death.. ive heard enough chickens screaming to know that they know fear and they know pain and regardless of which type they woere they both suffered... it put me right off eating chicken for years.

Personally that 6 months taught me on thing, both chickens suffer, so really buying free range does't give the chickens a "happier life" there is only SO happy a chicken can be when all it can smell is death (BOY does it smell), so i figure i have a choice, vegatarian or meat eater ... because having seen the conditions 1st hand, buying freerange does nothing to satisfy any guilt i might have, sure it got some room to move but where they happy chickens i doubt it.
Anyway... i bought 4 £2 chickens today ... good find, thanks for the tip :T

Its the people buying the cheap chickens that are being the aggressors here. It seems you are allowed to choose as long as it conforms to their way of thinking.

Auzelia

I dont care if people want to buy £2 chickens (well actually £4.48 chickens) or £15 chickens.
And it seems to me that certain members of the PC brigade are more aggressive than the *shock* cheap chicken eating people.

Its simple the title says Full Chicken £2 ASDA.

Now that is a very good indication of what the thread is about. Its the Quick! grabbit part of the forum. So why do they feel the need to come on here and do their little Spiel for the chickens!

Im suprised someone hasnt posted a picture of the appaling conditions those chickens live in!
End of the day, they are hatched, reared (which ever way) then they are all killed the exact same way.

Keith

Princess_Coupon wrote: »

what is being red an indication of?

That my Mrs won't buy it, and will buy one which hasn't got red skin

lalamb

slick_detective wrote: »

I WONDER HOW YOU WOULD FEEL IF YOU HAD THOSE HORRIBLE CONDITIONS TO LIVE I BELIEVE YOU'RE A DISGRACE TO THE UK.POOR CHICKENS AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT FOR NOT GIVING A S**T. ALL YOU CARE ABOUT IS YOURSELF AND PEOPLE LIKE THAT I HATE IT TICKS ME OFF SO MUCH IM GONNA THROW THIS FRIKKIN COMPUTER THROUGH THE WINDOW IN PURE ANGER.I'D RATHER A CHICKEN HAVE A HAPPIER AND FREEDOMFUL LIFE AND ME HAVE LESS MONEY.WHY YOU ASK BECAUSE IM NOT A SELF CENTERED A** WIPE WHO CARES MORE FOR A FEW BL**DY METAL COINS THAN THE WELLFARE OF GOD'S CREATURES OOH IM STEAMIN' HERE:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: IF THIS IS WHAT MOST PEOPLE ARE LIKE WE LIVE IN A VERY,VERY SICK COMMUNITY:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: I KNOW IT'S MONEYSAVING BUT SOMETIMES SACRIFICE IS BETTER IN MY OPINION ANYWAY

So what's your point?

jessicar

Probably for the same reason people post hundreds of other unnecessary opinions and comments in the Grabbit forum (such as 'How I cook my chicken" which is something I don't care about) - there are discussions on a large number of threads.

I could probably pick a number of random threads on here and find a comment or opinion in most of them, half of which I find irrelevant, dull or disagree with but I just ignore them.

It's an open forum - and that's the nature of an open forum - people can post total crap wherever and whenever they want - the only way to stop it is to make it a private, moderated one.

zenseeker

slick_detective wrote: »

I WONDER HOW YOU WOULD FEEL IF YOU HAD THOSE HORRIBLE CONDITIONS TO LIVE I BELIEVE YOU'RE A DISGRACE TO THE UK.POOR CHICKENS AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT FOR NOT GIVING A S**T. ALL YOU CARE ABOUT IS YOURSELF AND PEOPLE LIKE THAT I HATE IT TICKS ME OFF SO MUCH IM GONNA THROW THIS FRIKKIN COMPUTER THROUGH THE WINDOW IN PURE ANGER.I'D RATHER A CHICKEN HAVE A HAPPIER AND FREEDOMFUL LIFE AND ME HAVE LESS MONEY.WHY YOU ASK BECAUSE IM NOT A SELF CENTERED A** WIPE WHO CARES MORE FOR A FEW BL**DY METAL COINS THAN THE WELLFARE OF GOD'S CREATURES OOH IM STEAMIN' HERE:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: IF THIS IS WHAT MOST PEOPLE ARE LIKE WE LIVE IN A VERY,VERY SICK COMMUNITY:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad::mad: I KNOW IT'S MONEYSAVING BUT SOMETIMES SACRIFICE IS BETTER IN MY OPINION ANYWAY

As much as I dislike the conditions that they are kept in, I cannot afford to care, all that matters to me is that I can afford to buy it, which these days means not giving a toss about ethics. An ethical conscience is luxury that I simply cannot afford.

Simple fact of the matter is, if you are against it then don't buy it, but don't be an ignorant !!! on a forum, shouting your pc-brigade propaganda at people who are simply not in a position where they can pay the massively inflated prices charged for free range products. Why should people take notice of a person who insists on writing in capital letters in some desperate attempt to get noticed? You just come across as a trolling lunatic who will largely be ignored.

lalamb

Debt_Free_Dreamer wrote: »

Cheap chicken does contain chemicals! Lots of it in some cases, as Heston’s research showed with some chicken containing 40% water.

What are those chemicals doing to your body?

It's personal choice though, isn't it? I think what annoys a lot of people is the constant moaning from the chicken activists. Who knows, there may be a day when all chickens are free range and prices will come down, but until that day I will stick with the chickens I buy and I would appreciate not being preached to or SHOUTED at.

What gives people the right to dictate to others on what they should and shouldn't eat, if we choose to eat chemically filled chickens then what does it matter to you, let us get on with it fgs. As someone else said, if animal welfare bothers you that much don't eat chicken or any meat for that matter.

How many of these chicken rights lovers eat KFC, Burger King, Mcdonalds, Indian, Chinese.......any restaurant for that matter???????????? I'd love to know because I can assure you, you are not eating free range chickens! So, do your ethics go out the window then? School dinners, do your children have school dinners???? Again not free range chickens!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

System

ladypinkof66 wrote: »

There is no way i would consider buying any of these £2.00 chickens again for ethical reasons. i would rather eat no meat. I never buy cheap meat and do not think that £2 chickens should be sold. I think it is terrible to think that a poor little old chickens life is only worth £2.00 and that saddens me beyond belief. I would rather spend £10 on a marks and spencer chicken knowing that I was playing no part in encouraging these shops to sell these unfortunate chickens who are full of fattening products and have no taste and full of water. I shall be boycotting these chickens and not buying any i shall be sticking to my usual free range ones.

OMG get a life just because you wont buy it doesnt make it any less dead !i have no problem like a lot of people in buying cheap chickens and regularly buy sp ones .you say theres no way you would buy £2 chickens AGAIN so clearly once upon a time your moral high ground wasnt quite so high.
thanks op good find.

lalamb

Auzelia wrote: »

well my £2 chicken is now in the oven,
stuffed with garlic cloves and sprinkled with Paprika, salt and pepper.


hmmmmm..... cant wait

Sounds lovely, were having ours tomorrow, if I can get a couple that is

zenseeker

lalamb wrote: »

Ahhh but if you could buy a Ferrari for the price of an old Mini you'd buy the Ferrari. And in my opinion, they do taste the same, I would even say that the cheapo chickens taste better with all that water added, not quite so dry.

Edited to add: I don't think that made much sense

There was a newspaper, The Guardian I think, that did a blind taste test, and the battery reared chickens came out top for taste and texture, but there wasn't really much in it points wise. I think people psychosomatically believe that free range tastes better, but it is just in the mind. You feel better about eating a free range product, so you imagine that it tastes better, when in truth there is little or no noticeable difference.

Now, someone will try and shoot that down by claiming that free range DOES taste better, but that is the psychosomatic effect on your senses at work.

If you can afford to buy free range then great, I would if I could, but don't look down your nose at people who are just trying to make the pennies stretch that little bit further.