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Manxman_in_exile

I don't understand what the problem is with Thailand either. What am I missing?

Manxman_in_exile

teddysmum wrote: »

I don't trust foreign meats as , though there are cruel people/practices in this country, some are renowned for cruelty (eg China keeping trussed dogs in pens before slaughter),so it's safer not to trust any...

...so I'd barely eat, but have a health problem that means I must.

Er...sorry, but the bit I've highlighted in bold makes no sense whatsoever. Do you not consume anything at all from outside the UK because of what may happen in other parts of the world? I know people whose grandparents were tortured by a particular nation during WW2, but their grandchildren still buy that nation's products. In fact it would be impossible not to do so. Why is it safer not to trust anything from outside the UK? (By the way, I'm aware of a possible problem with Dutch eggs being contaminated by some pesticide but, like you, I only eat British eggs!).


Also, I've probably misunderstood the meaning of the latter part of your post, but most people need to eat a balanced diet for health reasons. It's better for you.

pelirocco

JReacher1 wrote: »

I’m a bit confused by this post.

Thailand isn’t a Muslim country so why would you think they would slaughter animals in a halal way?

Will you not eat any meat slaughtered abroad or just meat from Thailand?

It seems a slightly ignorant outlook on life. What do you do when you go on holiday? Do you only eat British reared food?

I suspect the OP is concerned how the meat is being raised in Thailand , and who wouldnt be .?Chickens being raised thousands of miles away , and the end product appearing here for very little money....Its not rocket science that the chances the conditions these animals are raised in will be pretty poor and the chances this could have negative impact on the consumer are very high .
For all those anti Halal ......do you think the meat you eat arrives by lulling the animal to sleep ?If you think non Halal slaughter causes the animals no pain or stress you are sadly mistaken

pelirocco

pinkshoes wrote: »

I thought all Halal meat was clearly labelled????

(As if it wasn't, then surely muslims would not buy it?).

I tend to buy only UK meat and nothing labelled as Halal as I find the killing method barbaric.

I would be very annoyed if I purchased British meat that had not been slaughtered humanely!

What exactly do you think humane slaughter is?

Manxman_in_exile

pelirocco wrote: »

For all those anti Halal ......do you think the meat you eat arrives by lulling the animal to sleep ?If you think non Halal slaughter causes the animals no pain or stress you are sadly mistaken

I know what you mean, but you forget that the British way of slaughtering animals is far superior to how those "foreigners" do it!

Manxman_in_exile

It reminds me a bit of a Blue Peter(?) programme where they were interviewing a Khmer Rouge survivor. He explained that the regime had been determined to eradicate all intellectuals and that one way of achieving this was to exterminate spectacle wearers (on the spurious ground that such people were more likely than others to be intellectuals).


The Blue Peter(?) host was horrified - not that the Khmer Rouge wanted to kill intellectuals, but that they were killing short sighted people!


Neither, of course, is acceptable - it's just that I found it strange that "intellectuals" were apparently less worthy of compassion than spectacle wearers.

seashore22

pelirocco wrote: »

I suspect the OP is concerned how the meat is being raised in Thailand , and who wouldnt be .?Chickens being raised thousands of miles away , and the end product appearing here for very little money....Its not rocket science that the chances the conditions these animals are raised in will be pretty poor and the chances this could have negative impact on the consumer are very high .
For all those anti Halal ......do you think the meat you eat arrives by lulling the animal to sleep ?If you think non Halal slaughter causes the animals no pain or stress you are sadly mistaken

Did you read my link in post 5? Conditions in Thailand appear to be better than the uk.

JReacher1

pelirocco wrote: »

I suspect the OP is concerned how the meat is being raised in Thailand , and who wouldnt be .?Chickens being raised thousands of miles away , and the end product appearing here for very little money....Its not rocket science that the chances the conditions these animals are raised in will be pretty poor and the chances this could have negative impact on the consumer are very high .
For all those anti Halal ......do you think the meat you eat arrives by lulling the animal to sleep ?If you think non Halal slaughter causes the animals no pain or stress you are sadly mistaken

Yeah you’re completely wrong here and being slightly ignorant.

Countries like Thailand can raise animals cheaper than the UK because the cost of living is a lot cheaper. Wages are lower, price of animal feed is lower, land costs are lower etc...

You have made the assumption because they can raise chicken cheaply it must mean they are raised in poor hygiene conditions.

This is both ignorant and offensive.

Well done.

Voyager2002

A couple of points...

Firstly, the methods of chicken production used in the UK (and various other 'rich' countries) are uniquely cruel and unhygienic. I learned far more about this than I would have liked to know during my period of working for the Food Standards Agency. Since then I have refused to eat any chicken nor chicken product produced in the UK, although I continue to enjoy chicken when I visit less-developed countries where standards are higher and practices less cruel;

Secondly, the mention of Thailand is probably a red herring: the label probably used a phrase like "produced in Thailand". What this often means is that British chicken (and other British foods, including British-caught fish) is transported to the Far East for chopping and other labour-intensive forms of processing, and then transported back for sale and consumption.

seashore22

Voyager2002 wrote: »

A couple of points...

Firstly, the methods of chicken production used in the UK (and various other 'rich' countries) are uniquely cruel and unhygienic. I learned far more about this than I would have liked to know during my period of working for the Food Standards Agency. Since then I have refused to eat any chicken nor chicken product produced in the UK, although I continue to enjoy chicken when I visit less-developed countries where standards are higher and practices less cruel;

Secondly, the mention of Thailand is probably a red herring: the label probably used a phrase like "produced in Thailand". What this often means is that British chicken (and other British foods, including British-caught fish) is transported to the Far East for chopping and other labour-intensive forms of processing, and then transported back for sale and consumption.

I think Morrisons does get their chicken from Thailand for many of their soups.

https://groceries.morrisons.com/webshop/product/Morrisons-Caribbean-Chicken-Soup/356545011

Under origin it says that it is made in the UK from Thai chicken. The op is right about that, but not about her issues with this.