Tesco Fresh British Chickens £1.99

lexie55_2

Just back from Tesco, Fresh British Chickens 1.4kg - £1.99.

tr3mor

Before anyone else posts this...

http://www.chickenout.tv/

:money:

Skippy2roo

Hy

I admire the efforts of Mr Oliver and Mr Whittingstall for their highlite of battery hen conditions, however in my opinion they fail to grasp one fundamental reason behind mass production.
Can you, using free range hens sustain the eating requirements of a nations desire for chicken and at what cost ?
Firstly i don't think you can and secondly they are just too expensive for the masses.
People were seen on their television programmes admit to buying non free range chickens because they were on a limited budget, so effectivley the speeding up process of supermarkets favouring the stocking of free range chickens could put the weekly sunday roast out of the reaches of these people.
I have one soloution and will i am sure not be welcomed by a percentage of the population, we need to encourage Mr Oliver & Co to harrass and further promote free range to the point where the supermarkets will have a surplus of battery hens. Never mind 2 for £5.00 they will be giving them away. So are Mr Oliver and Co helping or hindering the humle chicken ?
I only hope they raise the plight of other fowl and game, yes game, what about the poor rabbit, and what about the fish ? these are intensley farmed but i don't hear any drums banging on their behalf. Perhaps they are not as user friendly to promote ?

This was a post i was discussing which can be commented on through my profile.

ND

Cheap, cheap! Thanks lexie55.

f1re_cr4cker

we bought a rspca standard freedom chicken (sainsburys)for only 3.49 which to me isnt expensive for a whole chicken. i know its not free range but i thought the conditions it states they are bred in sounded okay.

d.o.o.g

If toilet paper was too expensive, would you wipe your backside on straw?

Why do people think it is acceptable to eat crappy, mass-produced, water and chemical filled, meat? why don't you just save the extra 2 quid you pay for this poor excuse for food and eat the plastic container they put it in?

A large organic freerange chicken from the farm shop near me = £4.09 does two meals plus soup/stock.

funnyguy

there warm and well fed..what more do they want..

mwjmum

lexie55 wrote: »

Just back from Tesco, Fresh British Chickens 1.4kg - £1.99.

Do you have a helmet and flak jacket? Thank you for the information, but take cover!!

d.o.o.g

funnyguy wrote: »

there warm and well fed..what more do they want..

An education so they know the difference between "they're" "their" and "there"? :rotfl:

(sorry, couldn't resist that one);)

adr0ck

funnyguy wrote: »

there warm and well fed..what more do they want..

sunshine

and fresh air

morg_monster

Sorry let me respond to your points one by one

d.o.o.g wrote: »

If toilet paper was too expensive, would you wipe your backside on straw?

No, but there are still the odd people who use newspaper for this reason. Since you can buy a pack of 4 value toilet rolls for 40p or something I don't think this issue is really the same.

d.o.o.g wrote: »

Why do people think it is acceptable to eat crappy, mass-produced, water and chemical filled, meat?

They don't think it is acceptable, it IS acceptable to them. For some people, it ISN'T acceptable. This is a matter of opinion here, not a fact. If it was a fact that it wasn't acceptable to eat this meat it wouldn't be on sale.

d.o.o.g wrote: »

why don't you just save the extra 2 quid you pay for this poor excuse for food and eat the plastic container they put it in?

Because the plastic container is inedible. Don't sully your argument by getting ridiculous - you've got enough reasonable points in the arsenal surely?

d.o.o.g wrote: »

A large organic freerange chicken from the farm shop near me = £4.09 does two meals plus soup/stock.

Ooh, lucky you! What about people who don't live near a farm shop?