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Free Range Chicken
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My point is you can't buy free range unless you want Organic from Tescos.
They have decided to only stock cheap chickens and organic, no normal free range.
Its apparently (cos its happened in our local Sainsbury's) that so many people are buying the free range lately that they've run out, not that they're no longer stocking them. We need to give it time before the supply chain catches up with the new stronger demand for FR chicken since Hugh FW made it so popular.
Its a good thing! :jLive better on less :beer:0 -
I think its actually a fightback campaign that the big stores are doing, a sort of in your face Hugh and Jamie. If they stock the top and bottom of the range and dont supply enough ethically reared chickens, people will just buy the cheap stuff and they will have won so to speak in inflicting what they think we want to buy (cheap). I want to pay a reasonable price for a reasonably raised chicken, so I have stopped buying chickens when the mid range are not available, until such times as they provide enough to supply demand. I dont think they realised how people would feel and with a 1 month growing time could not meet demand. I would have thought now that as a month has almost passed, they would have been able to factor in a greater number of free range/ethically reared suppliers to their market......I think I am going slightly mad.....0
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...me too.
Who wants to eat an animal that lived up to its waist in **** for three months and was so obese it could barely stand?
That's before you even start on the taste and nutrition of it.
Not that I really see the point in free range chickens from somewhere like Tesco, there are low minimum standards and I wouldn't expect too many of those chickens to be running around picturesque orchards.0 -
crystalsinger wrote: »I think its actually a fightback campaign that the big stores are doing, a sort of in your face Hugh and Jamie. If they stock the top and bottom of the range and dont supply enough ethically reared chickens, people will just buy the cheap stuff and they will have won so to speak in inflicting what they think we want to buy (cheap). I want to pay a reasonable price for a reasonably raised chicken, so I have stopped buying chickens when the mid range are not available, until such times as they provide enough to supply demand. I dont think they realised how people would feel and with a 1 month growing time could not meet demand. I would have thought now that as a month has almost passed, they would have been able to factor in a greater number of free range/ethically reared suppliers to their market......
I think you've hit the nail on the head, crystalsinger... sounds to me like they are trying to eliminate the market for free range chickens by not stocking enough of them, forcing people to either buy intensively farmed chickens (which sounds like their preferred choice); do without (like you); or pay more for organic free range. If they were really interested in animal welfare (like they claim to be), they'd have sourced out alternative free range suppliers, or at the very least put their organic free range on special offer until such time as they have adequate supplies of non-organic free range.
:AI want to move to theory. Everything works in theory.0 -
On the news this morning - its a shortage. No more, no less, no hidden agendas. They're just not there for Tescos to buy!0
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Good point about animal welfare, everyone should be aware all that matters to the supermarkets is increasing their already obscene profits.'What's poignancy grandad?'
'It's the cordon bleu of emotions sonny'0 -
Obviously with the extra demand for the Free Range Chickens, it takes time for these to appear in the food-chain. Nobody can wave a magic wand and make them happen overnight!
Poor Mr Cockerel must be working overtime!0 -
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Totally unrelated, but M&S have their free range whole chickens on half price at th e mo, about £3.45 ish for a medium bird x0
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