Found Chicken in my Veg Pie

Googlewhacker

fluffnutter wrote: »

You'd go to court, possibly involving solicitors, barristers, judges, lots and lots of time, money and effort and maybe even the police (who knows?) over a piece of chicken???!

No course they won't, it is a ridiculous over reaction to something very minor

Heliflyguy

candygirl wrote: »

Stop being a nobhead and put yourself in the OPs place:mad::mad:I also am a vegetarian, and would have also have been as repulsed as you if you found a turd in your meat and potato pastie:mad::mad:

We have all (possibly) been eating poo for years.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/8306261.stm

Hintza

kimberleyanddarren wrote: »

......i certainly would take up legal action.

What legal action would you take? How much would you be willing to spend? What outcome would you be looking for?

cardinalbiggles

fluffnutter wrote: »

You'd go to court, possibly involving solicitors, barristers, judges, lots and lots of time, money and effort and maybe even the police (who knows?) over a piece of chicken???!

No its about your morals and beliefs. Meat eaters are extremely ignorant when it comes to these matters, sorry its harsh but its true! "Oh its only a bit of meat" yeah and thats only someones finger in your meat pasty, same difference, there are still canibals in the world.

fluffnutter

cardinalbiggles wrote: »

No its about your morals and beliefs. Meat eaters are extremely ignorant when it comes to these matters, sorry its harsh but its true! "Oh its only a bit of meat" yeah and thats only someones finger in your meat pasty, same difference, there are still canibals in the world.

Am I misunderstanding you? Are you likening people who eat chicken to cannibals? I'm getting my popcorn out.... :rotfl:

Badger_Lady

fluffnutter wrote: »

Am I misunderstanding you? Are you likening people who eat chicken to cannibals? I'm getting my popcorn out.... :rotfl:

I already did

Sandoval

Phew this is just running and running isn't it?

A piece of chicken in vegetarian pie...

Soubrette

Googlewhacker wrote: »

A massive over reaction surely? The supermarkets sell hundreds of thousends of items a day and the number of times that one is contaiminated with the wrong product is probably less than 0.000001% (yes I'm guessing but you get the point!)

I do actually agree with you from my own personal pov. In this instance I would probably write to Asda and ask that they review their procedures purely because I have some sympathy for the portion of society that are revolted by eating any kind of meat (rather than the majority of society that are revolted by eating only some kinds of meat). I wouldn't even bother returning the pie.

However, if I found a half a battered slug in my chips from the chip shop I would do the same (although I wouldn't eat that - I'm as susceptible to societal mores as the next guy ). Slugs like vegetables and it is highly unlikely there will never be one accidentally caught up in harvest and subsequently missed.

The point for me though is that some people are very dismissive of the OPs pov about the horrors of finding a piece of chicken and yet if they found a slug in their food they would be equally revolted and a proportion of those would expect to take it further (not all selective meat eaters but a proportion).

Apart from the fact that more people find slug revolting compared to chicken in our society - taking away our perception, there is no actual difference in what a dead piece of chicken or slug is - a little packet of protein.

cyberbob

cardinalbiggles wrote: »

No its about your morals and beliefs. Meat eaters are extremely ignorant when it comes to these matters, sorry its harsh but its true! "Oh its only a bit of meat" yeah and thats only someones finger in your meat pasty, same difference, there are still canibals in the world.

fluffnutter wrote: »

Am I misunderstanding you? Are you likening people who eat chicken to cannibals? I'm getting my popcorn out.... :rotfl:

Ahh that explains KFC then:D

WestonDave

I wonder how much people who want absolute certainty that no mistakes happen in production, are prepared to pay as a premium for the additional cleaning and quality control that would be entailed. My guess is not much. The answer then is that if you want to buy cheap food that is mass produced under less than 100% quality control, then every now and again you might identify something that shouldn't be there. That's not to say its acceptable just that stuff happens. If you want absolute certainty then you have to either make the food yourself so you can control what's in it, or buy from a source that only makes vegetarian/vegan/kosher/halal products so you know nothing outside those limits will creep in.

If you've been buying cheap food for long, most vegetarians have probably unknowingly eaten the equivalent of a whole chicken or two. Absolute seperation isn't possible when factories/production lines are used for different products which is why most supermarket products contain warnings about not being able to say definitely that nuts are not in the product.