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

tinselfairy

Would never buy anything from Bernard Matthews in a month of Sunday's and I know a lot of people who feel the same.
Those birds are kept in appalling conditions.

LJM

im not going hysterical or anything just wont buy any more of his produce for a while

ariba10

tinselfairy wrote:

Would never buy anything from Bernard Matthews in a month of Sunday's and I know a lot of people who feel the same.
Those birds are kept in appalling conditions.

I agree but I strongly suspect that other poultry imported from abroad are reared in even worse conditions.

tinselfairy

ariba10 wrote:

I agree but I strongly suspect that other poultry imported from abroad are reared in even worse conditions.

Absolutely.
I have noticed on a few boxes of frozen processed chicken items in different stores 'produced in Thailand.' Don't fancy those either!

MinnieSpender

A spokeswoman from Defra has just been on the news talking about this issue. She rejoices under the name of Heather Peck.

ZTD

MinnieSpender wrote:

A spokeswoman from Defra has just been on the news talking about this issue. She rejoices under the name of Heather Peck.

So long as she's not Turkish.

Snow_Angel

tinselfairy wrote:

Would never buy anything from Bernard Matthews in a month of Sunday's and I know a lot of people who feel the same.
Those birds are kept in appalling conditions.

Today I am definitely proud to be a vegetarian

Boyfriend was half way through a Bernard Matthews turkey sandwich this morning when he saw the news pictures of truck loads of dead birds....he went a funny shade of green/white:rotfl:

COOLTRIKERCHICK

according to the news this morning..... supermarkets are panicing now... about the ptential down surge in poultry sales.....

in france when this happned poultry sales went down by 60%

Justie

Toxic_Lemon wrote:

I think it disturbing that the experts are puzzled as to how the turkeys have become infected because they are all kept in a controlled vaccuum with flitered air (something like that, anyway).

Who wants to eat turkey bred like that?

the most likely contamination is from a worker not observing all the hygiene rules and walking in something on their boots - otherwise the bio-defences are very good in these units - although the whole outfit is not pleasant for the birds. Bird flu is very contagious amongst birds and once it gets into a unit then it's going to spread very quickly as shown here - the irony is that the other 158,000 birds were probably uninfected and perfectly healthy.

This is the most likely time of year for us to get infected birds because of the migration so it's likely to all die down again very quickly.

On the up side though it might be the end of turkey twizzlers

Fivenations

Anyone buying ready chicken meals or frozen chicken from Iceland, chinese restaurant or takeaway food will have been eating meat imported from the Far East for years. So dont fret.