Food rant, Tescos Grade A chikcen being pumped with protein water... Legal?

Exemplar

UKTigerlily said:

Takmon said:

MangyDog said:

Well im unemployed so buying freeranged organic corn fed chicken is pretty much out of my budget...

I always find my local butcher to not cost that much more but the meat is traceable to local farms and far better quality with no added rubbish. Even if you have to get a bit less or eat less meat it's worth it just for your health. 

Chickens bred for meat are fattened up to the size of a 25 stone 2yr old child, and then killed at 6 weeks. Free range is a marketing term to make people feel better about their choices, yet if they saw what it means (60,000 in a packed barn with so much ammonia they are covered in burns and lose feathers), broken legs due to the weight, then 6000 in a truck sent to slaughter terrified and covered in faeces. There is NO way to 'ethically' use animals to eat, wear, entertain or test on, NONE. They also bleach the animals to get rid of bacteria, and pump them with antibiotics that we then consume. Please wake up everyone and at least watch Land of Hope & Glory or Earthlings, or go to a save (save movement on fb), even look at the photos, pls

Light blue touch paper and stand well back....

FlameCloud

UKTigerlily said:

Takmon said:

MangyDog said:

Well im unemployed so buying freeranged organic corn fed chicken is pretty much out of my budget...

I always find my local butcher to not cost that much more but the meat is traceable to local farms and far better quality with no added rubbish. Even if you have to get a bit less or eat less meat it's worth it just for your health. 

Chickens bred for meat are fattened up to the size of a 25 stone 2yr old child, and then killed at 6 weeks. Free range is a marketing term to make people feel better about their choices, yet if they saw what it means (60,000 in a packed barn with so much ammonia they are covered in burns and lose feathers), broken legs due to the weight, then 6000 in a truck sent to slaughter terrified and covered in faeces. There is NO way to 'ethically' use animals to eat, wear, entertain or test on, NONE. They also bleach the animals to get rid of bacteria, and pump them with antibiotics that we then consume. Please wake up everyone and at least watch Land of Hope & Glory or Earthlings, or go to a save (save movement on fb), even look at the photos, pls

They are however, incredibly tasty. 

forgotmyname

FlameCloud said:

They are however, incredibly tasty. 

One of celeb chefs or a food show cooked a chicken for a group of people. This chicken had roamed a farmyard fairly freely and
fed good food with very little added to the food etc. They also cooked the cheap chicken that gets pumped with water etc.

Most guests said the cheap chicken had the right taste they said the other chicken tasted strange.  Its been pumped with
god knows what for so long that its what we have become used to.

letsbehonest

The food industry have been screwing us for years not only with chickens, Just  doing a little online research will amaze you look up a documentary called "the poison squad" it's about the American food industry and is fascinating and you can bet your life what they do we do maybe on a smaller scale but all the same dodgy practices.

jon81uk

UKTigerlily said:

Takmon said:

MangyDog said:

Well im unemployed so buying freeranged organic corn fed chicken is pretty much out of my budget...

I always find my local butcher to not cost that much more but the meat is traceable to local farms and far better quality with no added rubbish. Even if you have to get a bit less or eat less meat it's worth it just for your health. 

Chickens bred for meat are fattened up to the size of a 25 stone 2yr old child, and then killed at 6 weeks. Free range is a marketing term to make people feel better about their choices, yet if they saw what it means (60,000 in a packed barn with so much ammonia they are covered in burns and lose feathers), broken legs due to the weight, then 6000 in a truck sent to slaughter terrified and covered in faeces. There is NO way to 'ethically' use animals to eat, wear, entertain or test on, NONE. They also bleach the animals to get rid of bacteria, and pump them with antibiotics that we then consume. Please wake up everyone and at least watch Land of Hope & Glory or Earthlings, or go to a save (save movement on fb), even look at the photos, pls

Using bleach/chlorine when processing chicken is illegal in the EU and therefore in the UK. I think you have read a lot about US farming standards rather than UK and European. Chickens not raised to free-range standards are still packed into barns and have the ammonia issues you mention but free-range are significantly better. We also have far higher cleanliness standards compared to the USA and therefore the bleach isn't needed.

onwards&upwards

Takmon said:

UKTigerlily said:

Takmon said:

MangyDog said:

Well im unemployed so buying freeranged organic corn fed chicken is pretty much out of my budget...

I always find my local butcher to not cost that much more but the meat is traceable to local farms and far better quality with no added rubbish. Even if you have to get a bit less or eat less meat it's worth it just for your health. 

Chickens bred for meat are fattened up to the size of a 25 stone 2yr old child, and then killed at 6 weeks. Free range is a marketing term to make people feel better about their choices, yet if they saw what it means (60,000 in a packed barn with so much ammonia they are covered in burns and lose feathers), broken legs due to the weight, then 6000 in a truck sent to slaughter terrified and covered in faeces. There is NO way to 'ethically' use animals to eat, wear, entertain or test on, NONE. They also bleach the animals to get rid of bacteria, and pump them with antibiotics that we then consume. Please wake up everyone and at least watch Land of Hope & Glory or Earthlings, or go to a save (save movement on fb), even look at the photos, pls

At the end of the day if people want to eat dead animals then animals need to die. 

Correction. 

If people want to eat dead animals, sadly it means animals are going to be killed for that purpose. 

Its never needed. 

onwards&upwards

jon81uk said:

UKTigerlily said:

Takmon said:

MangyDog said:

Well im unemployed so buying freeranged organic corn fed chicken is pretty much out of my budget...

I always find my local butcher to not cost that much more but the meat is traceable to local farms and far better quality with no added rubbish. Even if you have to get a bit less or eat less meat it's worth it just for your health. 

Chickens bred for meat are fattened up to the size of a 25 stone 2yr old child, and then killed at 6 weeks. Free range is a marketing term to make people feel better about their choices, yet if they saw what it means (60,000 in a packed barn with so much ammonia they are covered in burns and lose feathers), broken legs due to the weight, then 6000 in a truck sent to slaughter terrified and covered in faeces. There is NO way to 'ethically' use animals to eat, wear, entertain or test on, NONE. They also bleach the animals to get rid of bacteria, and pump them with antibiotics that we then consume. Please wake up everyone and at least watch Land of Hope & Glory or Earthlings, or go to a save (save movement on fb), even look at the photos, pls

Using bleach/chlorine when processing chicken is illegal in the EU and therefore in the UK. I think you have read a lot about US farming standards rather than UK and European. Chickens not raised to free-range standards are still packed into barns and have the ammonia issues you mention but free-range are significantly better. We also have far higher cleanliness standards compared to the USA and therefore the bleach isn't needed.

Free range means 13 birds to a square metre, and that they must in theory have access to outside (although in theory very few of them actually every make it out) but only for half their life.

Its not the happy life the egg boxes would have you think.

jon81uk

onwards&upwards said:

jon81uk said:

UKTigerlily said:

Takmon said:

MangyDog said:

Well im unemployed so buying freeranged organic corn fed chicken is pretty much out of my budget...

I always find my local butcher to not cost that much more but the meat is traceable to local farms and far better quality with no added rubbish. Even if you have to get a bit less or eat less meat it's worth it just for your health. 

Chickens bred for meat are fattened up to the size of a 25 stone 2yr old child, and then killed at 6 weeks. Free range is a marketing term to make people feel better about their choices, yet if they saw what it means (60,000 in a packed barn with so much ammonia they are covered in burns and lose feathers), broken legs due to the weight, then 6000 in a truck sent to slaughter terrified and covered in faeces. There is NO way to 'ethically' use animals to eat, wear, entertain or test on, NONE. They also bleach the animals to get rid of bacteria, and pump them with antibiotics that we then consume. Please wake up everyone and at least watch Land of Hope & Glory or Earthlings, or go to a save (save movement on fb), even look at the photos, pls

Using bleach/chlorine when processing chicken is illegal in the EU and therefore in the UK. I think you have read a lot about US farming standards rather than UK and European. Chickens not raised to free-range standards are still packed into barns and have the ammonia issues you mention but free-range are significantly better. We also have far higher cleanliness standards compared to the USA and therefore the bleach isn't needed.

Free range means 13 birds to a square metre, and that they must in theory have access to outside (although in theory very few of them actually every make it out) but only for half their life.

Its not the happy life the egg boxes would have you think.

For eggs or for chicken sold as meat? This thread is about meat not eggs and the chicken housing is very different egg production and meat production.

onwards&upwards

jon81uk said:

onwards&upwards said:

jon81uk said:

UKTigerlily said:

Takmon said:

MangyDog said:

Well im unemployed so buying freeranged organic corn fed chicken is pretty much out of my budget...

I always find my local butcher to not cost that much more but the meat is traceable to local farms and far better quality with no added rubbish. Even if you have to get a bit less or eat less meat it's worth it just for your health. 

Chickens bred for meat are fattened up to the size of a 25 stone 2yr old child, and then killed at 6 weeks. Free range is a marketing term to make people feel better about their choices, yet if they saw what it means (60,000 in a packed barn with so much ammonia they are covered in burns and lose feathers), broken legs due to the weight, then 6000 in a truck sent to slaughter terrified and covered in faeces. There is NO way to 'ethically' use animals to eat, wear, entertain or test on, NONE. They also bleach the animals to get rid of bacteria, and pump them with antibiotics that we then consume. Please wake up everyone and at least watch Land of Hope & Glory or Earthlings, or go to a save (save movement on fb), even look at the photos, pls

Using bleach/chlorine when processing chicken is illegal in the EU and therefore in the UK. I think you have read a lot about US farming standards rather than UK and European. Chickens not raised to free-range standards are still packed into barns and have the ammonia issues you mention but free-range are significantly better. We also have far higher cleanliness standards compared to the USA and therefore the bleach isn't needed.

Free range means 13 birds to a square metre, and that they must in theory have access to outside (although in theory very few of them actually every make it out) but only for half their life.

Its not the happy life the egg boxes would have you think.

For eggs or for chicken sold as meat? This thread is about meat not eggs and the chicken housing is very different egg production and meat production.

13 is for meat. 

For eggs it’s 9 hens per square metre. 

Takmon

onwards&upwards said:

Takmon said:

UKTigerlily said:

Takmon said:

MangyDog said:

Well im unemployed so buying freeranged organic corn fed chicken is pretty much out of my budget...

I always find my local butcher to not cost that much more but the meat is traceable to local farms and far better quality with no added rubbish. Even if you have to get a bit less or eat less meat it's worth it just for your health. 

Chickens bred for meat are fattened up to the size of a 25 stone 2yr old child, and then killed at 6 weeks. Free range is a marketing term to make people feel better about their choices, yet if they saw what it means (60,000 in a packed barn with so much ammonia they are covered in burns and lose feathers), broken legs due to the weight, then 6000 in a truck sent to slaughter terrified and covered in faeces. There is NO way to 'ethically' use animals to eat, wear, entertain or test on, NONE. They also bleach the animals to get rid of bacteria, and pump them with antibiotics that we then consume. Please wake up everyone and at least watch Land of Hope & Glory or Earthlings, or go to a save (save movement on fb), even look at the photos, pls

At the end of the day if people want to eat dead animals then animals need to die. 

Correction. 

If people want to eat dead animals, sadly it means animals are going to be killed for that purpose. 

Its never needed. 

Well they need to die because if they didn't die then i wouldn't be able to have my dead animals for dinner. If the animals weren't dead then I would have a plate full of live animals, which doesn't interest me when I'm hungry.