Morrisons fresh soups

marliepanda

If you think the UK is some paragon of virtue with how they slaughter and raise animals you are sadly and HUGELY mistaken.

If you care about where your meat comes from, looking at country of origin is the entirely wrong place to look.

Get down to your local farm shops and farmers markets, research the farms you buy from, not the countries.

Sorry but you come across as ill informed, ignorant and trying to act pious about your high welfare standards when you really don't seem to have a clue about what that actually means. Britain has many fantastic and humane farms (and I'm in no way Veggie!) but just buying British and assuming itll be fine is far too narrow and reductive to be useful.

BorisThomson

teddysmum wrote: »

I wish I didn't eat meat, but even then there is cruelty in dairy products (just saw a facebook link showing how calves are fitted with a face flap so they can stay with their mum, but not take her milk.


The big problem being that I don't like many vegetables and a bitter cauliflower or very sweet peas put me off that type for weeks, so I'd barely eat, but have a health problem that means I must.

You are an adult, you choose to eat meat, no one forces you to.

You're doing a great job of fulfilling the Little Englander stereotype

hollydays

teddysmum wrote: »

Answering all the above in one sweep:


I rarely eat out (last time was jacket potato) and stopped using Taybarns when it was announced that they use halal turkey and Hungry Horse when I read about their choice of meat supplier.


I don't go abroad.


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.


I do cook from scratch and buy my meat from Morrisons (but don't buy lamb ).I just fancied some 'homemade' soup as my husband was having a week off work, so there were lunches to provide.


Unless the origins of meats are specified, I am wary but was very disappointed by Morrisons who said their products were not halal (more correctly hang slaughtered ;the praying part doesn't bother me, though a lot of that has been shown to be played from a recording loop, so has little point).


I haven't bought Morrisons soup for a while, but imported chicken wasn't mentioned on the previous pot I bought.


I wish I didn't eat meat, but even then there is cruelty in dairy products (just saw a facebook link showing how calves are fitted with a face flap so they can stay with their mum, but not take her milk.


The big problem being that I don't like many vegetables and a bitter cauliflower or very sweet peas put me off that type for weeks, so I'd barely eat, but have a health problem that means I must.

I don’t want to stoke the vege versus meat-but it just sounds like you’ve never properly eaten good food like vegetables.

I don’t even understand what you mean like very sweet peas? Or bitter cauliflower?

I’m lucky enough to have been raised being persuaded to try a wide range of food , and I sometimes meet people who turn their noses up at good wholesome food ( which is incredibly bad manners by the way)
My mother was raised in the war when most people didn’t have much to chose from, she just didn’t allow me to “ not like something” she said all food she gave me was good-it was. Money was short and we ate what was put in front of us.
The number of people who screw up theirs faces in restaurants- olives, prawns, any seafood, fish, eggs, mushrooms, any sauce, anything with bits in it, rare meat, rice(!) . Get a grip..

takman

hollydays wrote: »

I don’t want to stoke the vege versus meat-but it just sounds like you’ve never properly eaten good food like vegetables.

I don’t even understand what you mean like very sweet peas? Or bitter cauliflower?

I’m lucky enough to have been raised being persuaded to try a wide range of food , and I sometimes meet people who turn their noses up at good wholesome food ( which is incredibly bad manners by the way)
My mother was raised in the war when most people didn’t have much to chose from, she just didn’t allow me to “ not like something” she said all food she gave me was good-it was. Money was short and we ate what was put in front of us.
The number of people who screw up theirs faces in restaurants- olives, prawns, any seafood, fish, eggs, mushrooms, any sauce, anything with bits in it, rare meat, rice(!) . Get a grip..

I do agree that people should try food before saying they don't like it. But i don't see any problem with people not liking certain types of food, it certainly isn't bad manners to not like some food.

Especially when you go to a restaurant there is no point in buying food you don't like just because its "wholesome".

Cornucopia

teddysmum wrote: »

... being hanged until dead is beyond the pale...

Yes it is, or at least it would be. But that is not what Halal meat production involves.

If you have read that somewhere, it was someone spreading misinformation (probably with malign intent).

meer53

I just fancied some 'homemade' soup as my husband was having a week off work, so there were lunches to provide.

Surely it would have been quicker to make your own ? It's hardly Homemade if you've bought it from Morrisons, is it ?

I make Chicken Noodle soup (and all my soup) from scratch, it takes about 15 mins.

robatwork

I would be interested in a list of slaughter methods that the OP does find acceptable. And where that line is drawn.

As an aside I was abroad in a village recently where it's real organic farming ie. the chickens are just roaming around a field, the vegetables are growing in the garden. A neighbour brought some chicken round they had killed and plucked that day. I didn't ask how but probably the old neck wring.

Had it with some fresh cucumber and other just picked veg.

Wow it was like eating a different meat to what we get here no matter the source. All the veg tasted infinitely better too.

What's labelled "organic" here is far from my definition of organic.

hollydays

takman wrote: »

I do agree that people should try food before saying they don't like it. But i don't see any problem with people not liking certain types of food, it certainly isn't bad manners to not like some food.

Especially when you go to a restaurant there is no point in buying food you don't like just because its "wholesome".

If someone doesn’t like something-just don’t order it.
It’s the screwing up of faces with looks of disgust and “ Urgh! Prawns” type of comments that are rude and bad manners .
Or people who look at your food and say “ urgh what’s that”

BillysBadFurDay

sounds like you need to go vegan.

hollydays

BillysBadFurDay wrote: »

sounds like you need to go vegan.

Not me, I hope you meant the op