bird flu hits bernard mathews turkeys...what do you think?

COOLTRIKERCHICK

hi.. i have just seen bbc news24 that bernard mathews has been hit by the bird flu...... the big one..H5N1....:eek:

so what will this mean to os cooking.. prices etc......

i normally buy turkey breast steak as this is cheaper than chicken......

also i know a lot of people buy turkey legs as they make a cheap meal.....as i think they are around the £1.07 mark...

grannybroon

Cooltrikerchick

Think we should keep our eyes peeled for the yellow stickers! Bet a lot of folk are put off buying turkey from today and anything in the system already will be just fine. I would think if there is any doubt no turkey not yet in the system will get there.

I think we just have to wait and see.

GB

COOLTRIKERCHICK

i was thinking... that there might now be a shortage of turkey.....

grannybroon

If there is maybe it will be compensated for by the lack of folk who will be scared to buy! Certainly it will be interesting to see how things develop over the next few weeks to see if it can be contained at BM. By the way is that A Burmese in your avatar. I adore that breed to cat - friends have had various Burmese over the years and they have such wonderful personalities.

GB

COOLTRIKERCHICK

grannybroon wrote:

If there is maybe it will be compensated for by the lack of folk who will be scared to buy! Certainly it will be interesting to see how things develop over the next few weeks to see if it can be contained at BM. By the way is that A Burmese in your avatar. I adore that breed to cat - friends have had various Burmese over the years and they have such wonderful personalities.

GB

i wish it was a burmese.... cat or snake.....lol.. no shes a ordinary moggy.... with a very BIG personality....when we first had her from freecycle she was skin and bone.. a very dehydrated.... now she's a cat from hell:eek:

i just heard that they are slaughtering 160,000 turkeys.....

might put a stop to the turkey twizzlers in school now

earwig

i have quite a bit of bm turkey in the freezer you know the turkey steaks kids love them but i will chuck them in the bin and stay clear of all birds untill im sure there is no risk from eating them

kethry

there is no risk from eating them. According to Defra, you'd have to get the innards of the bird, dry them, then stand there and sniff the things to get infected and even *then* its quite difficult to get the disease. If you're cooking the things properly, so that the meat reaches 70*C all over, then they're fine. see here and here.

particularly this bit from the second link, and i quote (although this is in reference to chickens, it would apply to any bird):

BBC wrote:

Professor Hugh Pennington of Aberdeen University underlined the negligible risk to consumers: "The virus is carried in the chicken's gut.

"A person would have to dry out the chicken meat and would have to sniff the carcass to be at any risk. But even then, it would be very hard to become infected."

so don't bin all that poultry, its not necessary and you're just wasting money. And if you see it yellow-stickered, grab it. i will be..

keth
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lil_me

I just hope my son doesn't hear about this, last time he refused to eat any poutry which forms a main part of his diet and just ate fish, drove me barmy trying to convince him, will have to avoid the news being on near him, have had to do the same with the killer whales as he'd have us in Edinburgh if he seen that.

http://www.defra.gov.uk/news/latest/2007/animal-0203.htm

FemmeAuFoyer

I'm not surprised considering the conditions the birds are kept in. I've never eaten Bernard Matthews' stuff and I never will. Free range organic for me.

tr3mor

earwig wrote:

i have quite a bit of bm turkey in the freezer you know the turkey steaks kids love them but i will chuck them in the bin and stay clear of all birds untill im sure there is no risk from eating them

There isn't any risk.

moggins

I'm going to be making the most of it and buying all that nice yellow stickered stuff because so many people will be panicking and going to extremes