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07DefenderSeb:
--- Quote from: "Lord Shagg-Pyle" ---It just reinforces what I have always thought about battery farming for poultry.
Inhumane and leaves the stock wide open to disease and abuse.
Sorry, but I've never bought any of BM's products. I've been inside some of the sheds on his and other farms and it is not a pleasant place to be.
Free range or organic for me.
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Quite right! Intensive farming of any kind is revolting. Proper animal husbandry is essential [for our health as well as that of the creatures], so we should be prepared to pay for it. It's worth it for the taste alone.
I'd rather buy a £8 chicken once a week or fortnight than three £3 chickens in the same period.
On several occasions i have almost told people off and given them a lecture in the supermarket for putting battery 'value' eggs and £3 battery chickens in their baskets :evil: :evil: :evil: Normal milk is produced intensively as well...
It's a favourite topic of rant for me. I can feel myself starting to rant...
Hurray for organic and free-range animals and products of ALL sorts - they are happier and more comfortable, and I am a happier and more comfortable omnivore as well :D
Bishops Finger:
Couldn't agree more :D
V8MoneyPit:
On a related subject...
What about this muppet who complained about the worker 'kicking' a turkey?? In the footage (pun not intended :roll: ) I saw, he simply pushed it back into the shed with his foot. It was stretching the limits of truth to call it kicking. Certainly not anything to get concerned about. Some people just need to get out more.
LSP may recall that we buy as much of our produce locally. We can pick the chicken while it's still running around if we want. We have even seen our beef and pork while it still has legs! I'm all for knowing where what we eat comes from. But intensive farming will always be with us and events like the BM one will continue.
At least this one seems to have been handled better than the foot & mouth outbreak.
Lord Shagg-Pyle:
--- Quote from: "V8MoneyPit" ---On a related subject...
What about this muppet who complained about the worker 'kicking' a turkey?? In the footage (pun not intended :roll: ) I saw, he simply pushed it back into the shed with his foot. It was stretching the limits of truth to call it kicking. Certainly not anything to get concerned about. Some people just need to get out more.
LSP may recall that we buy as much of our produce locally. We can pick the chicken while it's still running around if we want. We have even seen our beef and pork while it still has legs! I'm all for knowing where what we eat comes from. But intensive farming will always be with us and events like the BM one will continue.
At least this one seems to have been handled better than the foot & mouth outbreak.
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To a degree, I will agree with you. They certainly have responded a lot more quickly to the outbreak.
What it needs is more people to say to the big supermarkets that they are not happy with the way that their food is produced. Consumer power.
As V8 Money Pit is no doubt aware, there are loads of people high quality producing high quality foodstuffs in Norfolk, as there are all over the country.
Without geeting on a soapbox, check the net for farmers markets, localmeat and vegatable producers and you will be surprised at what you get, especially the quality.
Free range chicken or Tesco chicken. Free range everytime.
Local breweries for Norfolk, try Woodfordes of Woodbastwick!
V8MoneyPit:
--- Quote from: "Lord Shagg-Pyle" ---Without geeting on a soapbox, check the net for farmers markets, localmeat and vegatable producers and you will be surprised at what you get, especially the quality.
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And often cheaper too.
--- Quote from: "Lord Shagg-Pyle" ---Local breweries for Norfolk, try Woodfordes of Woodbastwick!
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Mmm....... I remember (or maybe not!) a rather pleasant few pints of Nelsons Revenge :lol: But Nog is by far my favourite =P~
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