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

Snow_Angel

Stick to vegetables....and organic wholesome food from your local farm. I hope independent farmers get some great business and a new lease of life out of this.

johnjp

Mass produced processed food - cheap and nasty!.
Remember BSE?
Either eat organically reared, locally produced meat or vegetarian food.
But don`t worry about the virus it is very fragile and very easily destroyed.
I just hope that any hysteria surrounding fowl doesn`t force me to destroy my well kept laying hens, which I rescued from a free range farm - where they had 17,000 birds!

chardonnay_2

i'm not worried at the moment as we don't buy turkey apart from at xmas and never any bm processed rubbish.

competitionscafe

recovering_spendaholic wrote:

Watching the news tonight convinced me never to buy BM stuff again, and not because of bird flu. They showed the inside of the processing plant and there were all these big steel containers of pink mush to which someone kept shovelling minced up raw meat - it looked totally rank.

I saw that too - I am sure that the voiceover said that the footage was taken by Bernard Mathews to "improve their image" - for the first few seconds I thought, well yes it looks fairly clean....and then I saw the pink sludge and I though eeeeurch - are they sure that's what they want to show to bolster their public image!! I think a visit to any battery farm would be far more shocking though......

beer2006

lil_me wrote:

There was some reduced turkey which wasn't BM I noticed aswell, and chicken, I don't even buy my meat there but I couldn't resist being nosey after reading this thread :rotfl:

I think that black_saturn about the workers can be said about employees of many factories unfortunately, have a few round here and I wouldn't eat what the staff touched after seeing them.

Well I agree with snow angel, I work in alot of food processing plants (again not meat though) and the level of hygene and worry about things getting into the final product is total.
They are fanatical about it. One slip and they could be out of business.

Its the proper ingredients that go into it that is the problem. Just sacks of processed powder I would never eat another pastie in a plastic wrapper _pale_ thats all I'm saying.

lilitu93

My first thought when I heard about the outbreak was that it's factory farming to blame, not wild birds, and it appears I was right. There's a good article on it at CIWF: http://www.ciwf.org.uk/home/news_avflu07cf.shtml

I'm jealous of those who can keep chickens. I live in London in a flat, so no chickens for me unless we move, but someday I'd like to have a few. I'd probably end up getting a rescue one from a battery farm. There's a good group called the Battery Hen Welfare Trust that does that--the pics on there of how the birds transform after being rescued are amazing--but obviously they can't rescue or rehome any right now.

http://www.thehenshouse.co.uk/

annscullamus

'No risk' they say.....is that just the same as they said about BSE in the early days? You pay cheap and you dice with death.

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=31FWD1GQT235JQFIQMGCFGGAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2007/02/11/nflu111.xml

more food for thought / what they can get away with / we are gullible and they treat us as fools

pigpen

annscullamus wrote:

You pay cheap and you dice with death.

I heard someone on the radio say that about ryanair yesterday.. word for word!!

My cousin has some rescue battery hens.. they are now free-range , plump and happy.

It is completely out of most peoples price range to afford free-range meat or vegetables and certainly organic as well.. so to say this is all people should eat is pretty crap.. there would be a lot of people starving to death. I heard it is meant to be tastier.. but have NEVER been able to afford any.

Noone else makes turkey sausages and we don't eat red meat and pork ones are 90% fat judging by the oven tray! Not even my local butcher (who happens to be my BIL) makes them.. and if you had any idea what foes on in the backs of these butchers you'd think Bernard was 'normal' .. meat fights.. slapping each other with raw meat.. they also sneeze and cough. My BIL also kills and prepares his own birds.. in his garage!!!!! And we know he isn't the only one.

The only way you can be absolutley certain is to grow/raise your own food.. and very few of us have the room or the time to do this!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

kittie..... thanks for the link.....it was VERY interesting......

i also started another thread...have you lost faith in the food industry .....

at the end of the day as i have said before... and may other mse'rs.... unless you grow it or rear it yourself ..you will never truely know how it was reared or grown.....

there is book that i bought a few years ago called...
not on the label.... it was an undecover reporter that went undercover in food factories... packing. stations etc....

and to be honest... we dont know half what really goes on with our food..... even the so called fresh raw foods....

i know this is off topic..... but wtih terror attacks etc.... and our food coming from all parts of the world..... who's to say that they are not going to attack out food at source........

also bernard mathews thought they could cover up their imports of turkey.........but slowly the truth is coming out.......very reluctantly......