Hugh's Chicken Run (Merged Discussion)

rustyjemma

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I must admit that I chuckled at JoJoB's comment about Hayley possibly cutting out the biscuits!! I had muttered that whilst getting annoyed at the TV!

Im a fat cow & totally agree! - I just thought it was becaude im mean (& proud of it too!)

tiggyloo

rustyjemma wrote: »

Im a fat cow & totally agree! - I just thought it was becaude im mean (& proud of it too!)

oh me too. its my first post and im being horrid, but i thought that too.

i love hugh and have really taken the programme on board. no standard chickens for me. it worries me about cat food and going out for meals. i have a free meal offer for nandos and was looking forward to it, but not now.

tiggy

jenquack84

tiggyloo wrote: »

it worries me about cat food and going out for meals. i have a free meal offer for nandos and was looking forward to it, but not now.

tiggy

This worries me too, I think that I'm just going to have to not eat chicken on meals out anymore! There's no point doing it at home if I then eat standard chicken on a meal out too I suppose (not that there have been too many of those lately LOL)

jessbrown100

Slight deviation form the thread but we're taking delivery of 4 'rescued' ex-battary chooks in 12 weeks time and are VERY excited about it! can't wait to see them stretching their toes in our back garden! if there are any chicken owners on the O/s board any advice would be more than welcome!
Didn't watch the HFW show as I saw one that he did a while ago on the same subject and it made me cry- have bought free-range meat and eggs since then so it must have worked!
people eat so much more meat now then they did years ago and our general health is terrible (obsesity etc) a link perhaps? we try to buy smaller amounts of good quality, ethically reared meat and pad it out with lots of veggies and pulses- saves money too!

~Chameleon~

One thing I have decided tonight is to try and eat more British Veal after watching the other programme. So many calf bulls are needlessly slaughtered and incinerated due to lack of demand for veal meat due to lack of demand for the meat, and all because it hasn't been properly promoted as a good healthy option. Many of us, including me until I saw the programme, don't realise that veal production in this country is now one of the most ethically and humanely produced out of all the meat and poultry we eat!!!!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/food_matters/veal.shtml

It has to be BRITISH veal though as continentally produced veal is still not up to our standards. Does anyone here buy it already that can tell me where to source it at a reasonable price (not from Tescos :mad: ) please?

I've found this site so far http://www.alternativemeats.co.uk/asp/product.asp?recorprod=&product=106&cat=&ph=&keywords=&recor=&SearchFor=&PT_ID=

Surely if we start eating more veal so demand goes up then it will mean fewer calf bulls are slaughtered as waste, and in turn it will help subsidise the dairy farmer if he can gain value from those too :T

SALOPMAN

Watched Hughs programme and agree with all the comments, also watched the Lie of the Land and oh the programme opened my eyes, worst of all though that "Mulesing" I had never heard of it but watched the video and was horrified, its so cruel,I cant imagine how its not illegal in this day and age,felt sick after watching it, also watched the other australian video about the mistreatment of sheep in slaughterhouses.Wow powerful stuff......

mamof4

As i sat watching hughs programe last night, i was perplexed by peoples lack of enthuiasum, you would have thought they would be proud to say they were the first free range town ..... but what really struck me was the men drinking in the pub saying they could not afford the extra money for a better chicken......but all they have to do is have 1 less pint a week....

scrimpingbadger

I find the argument about price of free range chicken odd. If we're skint then we don't buy our free range chicken! We buy a tin of tuna instead (dolphin friendly of course). Not always as nice sometimes - but that's life!

floyd

mamof4 wrote: »

As i sat watching hughs programe last night, i was perplexed by peoples lack of enthuiasum, you would have thought they would be proud to say they were the first free range town ..... but what really struck me was the men drinking in the pub saying they could not afford the extra money for a better chicken......but all they have to do is have 1 less pint a week....

My OH said exactly the same! He vowed never to buy non-free range ever again and only get it from local farms, even if it means not eating meet for a few weeks until we can get to the Farmers Market or local butcher who does amazing stuff http://www.thescotchbeefshop.co.uk/

TNG

JoJoB wrote: »

Going on and on about how she's a single mother on a budget therefore can't afford the free-range. Just cut back on the biscuits love, you'd probably manage to buy 2 free range birds out of your custard creams budget. Being on the tubby side myself I'm rarely fattist towards people, but honestly, she harps on as though she'll be on the brink of starvation if she doesn't get her 2 chickens for a fiver.

:T :T :T :T :T :T :T :T

Well done!!

Slightly OT, but I read an inteeresting article the other day giving advice on getting back to proper food (you could search the Guardian website for it - it's an extract from a book by Michael Pollan). It gave some good guidelines on decision making when buying food (don't buy anything that makes health claims, don't buy anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognise as food), but the bits about meat I found interesting. We should all eat a lot less of it. There were stats about all the RDAs of vitamins and such that I won't bother quoting, but the key phrase for me was "meat should be the condiment to the veg". i.e. not the main part, but the accompaniment.

Just thought I'd mention it.....