Hugh's Chicken Run (Merged Discussion)

stilernin

I too watched Kill It, Cook It, Eat It and got very cross!!

It was very reassuring for everyone to see how much time each animal was given as they were brought in and how slowly and quietly everything happened until they were stunned. All very nice.....

.... now think about how many animals are slaughtered in this country each day and do the maths. How much time will be given to each one when the cameras aren't there? These guys are very skilled and most will be as caring as they can be given the time constraints, but I find it hard to believe that what we watched watched was the 'norm'.

catherineblack

I'm quite glad HFW has encouraged people to think about where our meat comes from. It is something that concerns me more and more. I love eating meat - but am finding it hard to eat when I don't know where it comes from or how it was treated. I cannot afford to go all out free-range - but have cut down on my meat eating. If I can eat free-range meat then I will. It'll be interesting to see how things go in the near future - I wonder if it will have a minor knock-on effect on the supermarkets. Will they sell more free-range meats?

purpleivy

I hope that at some stage there will be a blind taste testing to see what the difference is taste-wise.

I too would rather eat better quality meat less frequently than cheapo stuff all the time.

Primrose

Yes I have been watching and I hope it jolts the nation, not only because of the cruelty to the chickens, but because of the vast amount of food waste involved. The reality is that we currently live in a time of plenty. If we lived in a time of food rationing (and we may one day have to return to a rationing regime because of climate change and population growth) every scrap of food would be used and one wouldn't dream of wasting anything. But surely it's about Education, and the responsibility of every parent to ensure their children know how to cook. The lady concerned who just used the chicken breasts probably learned from her mother that food comes in a pre-chilled plastic container from Sainsburys. In our house, every scrap of chicken meat is used, and the carass turned into stock. But my sister-in-law who is the same age as me, didn't even know what "chicken stock" is, and was appalled by the way it was made, saying "I couldn't possibly eat anything revolting like that" and yet she thoroughly enjoyed the soup which was actually made with it. Which illustrates what a huge amount of ignorance exists around the way food is prepared.

Cazzdevil

It's so true though that chicken has become an "everyday" meat where it was once an occasional treat. The same can be said for all meats though really.

mummyto3_2

I watched last night and was shocked to see the waste you can read more and sign the campaign on:
http://www.chickenout.tv/

belfastgirl23

Anyone else get a letter from sainsburys today with a lot of chicken related information??

Shame they didn't use their nectar card records to weed out the vegetarians

Was disappointed, not a voucher in sight...

Austin_Allegro

Primrose wrote: »

Yes I have been watching and I hope it jolts the nation, not only because of the cruelty to the chickens, but because of the vast amount of food waste involved. The reality is that we currently live in a time of plenty. If we lived in a time of food rationing (and we may one day have to return to a rationing regime because of climate change and population growth) every scrap of food would be used and one wouldn't dream of wasting anything. But surely it's about Education, and the responsibility of every parent to ensure their children know how to cook. The lady concerned who just used the chicken breasts probably learned from her mother that food comes in a pre-chilled plastic container from Sainsburys. In our house, every scrap of chicken meat is used, and the carass turned into stock. But my sister-in-law who is the same age as me, didn't even know what "chicken stock" is, and was appalled by the way it was made, saying "I couldn't possibly eat anything revolting like that" and yet she thoroughly enjoyed the soup which was actually made with it. Which illustrates what a huge amount of ignorance exists around the way food is prepared.

YOu're right that we live in a time of plenty, so people have no need to prepare food properly and comprehensively. One woman on Mr Fearnly-Whittingstall's programme said she gave the £2.50 chickens to her dog!! People just don't know any better, because they are disconnected from the land and from the process of food production, which has become industrialised and hidden away in sheds.

I don't really blame them for this ignorance, but I don't understand how anyone who's eaten cornfed free range chicken can want to go back to eating the dry, stringy, cotton wool that passes for chicken in the supermarkets.

trying-very-trying

belfastgirl23 wrote: »

Anyone else get a letter from sainsburys today with a lot of chicken related information??

Yeah, I got that, explaining about al the different eggs and stating that they will stop using eggs from caged chickens by the year 2010.

thriftlady_2

belfastgirl23 wrote: »

Anyone else get a letter from sainsburys today with a lot of chicken related information??

Shame they didn't use their nectar card records to weed out the vegetarians

Was disappointed, not a voucher in sight...

I think Jamie Oliver has an upcoming programme along similar lines to Hugh's -I wonder if that has anything to do with Sainsbury's letters :think:

I didn't watch Hugh's programme, and won't be watching Jamie Oliver's, I've seen and read all this stuff before and haven't bought intensively reared chicken for years. I am shocked to hear about the people who just eat the breasts and chuck the rest, but more from the 'hungry planet' point of view.

Btw, someone mentioned the conditions beef and lamb are raised in -surely all beef and lamb production in this country is extensive not intensive