View Poll Results: Do you buy Free Range Chicken or not
Free Range - price is worth it
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Non Free Range - price too dear
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Non Free Range - all a load of tosh
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14 February 2008, 07:12 AM
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chickens ...
on the tele again abour chickens saying should buy free range....
And not buy the cheap ones anymore..
what happens in your house?
Claire
And not buy the cheap ones anymore..
what happens in your house?
Claire
14 February 2008, 07:32 AM
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Sorry... ANDY 
You gonna drag yourself to a meet one day
Birds Eye... dunno whats in there.. sposed to be 100 % chicken though
You gonna drag yourself to a meet one day
Birds Eye... dunno whats in there.. sposed to be 100 % chicken though
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14 February 2008, 08:53 AM
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Happy Chickens all the way 
except when we visit our mate who serves up truley miserable chicken which of course is twice as fat and frankly tastes virtually the same but for the skin which isnt as good ,
but hey if it makes one chooks life any more worthwhile its all worth it
except when we visit our mate who serves up truley miserable chicken which of course is twice as fat and frankly tastes virtually the same but for the skin which isnt as good ,
but hey if it makes one chooks life any more worthwhile its all worth it
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14 February 2008, 10:25 AM
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We buy free range chicked and eggs. We can afford it so we try to make a small difference when we can.
Don't bother with organic though.
"Cover it in as many chemicals as you like mate, as long as you do it outside"
That's my philosophy
Don't bother with organic though.
"Cover it in as many chemicals as you like mate, as long as you do it outside"
That's my philosophy
14 February 2008, 10:33 AM
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Free range eggs but regular chickens. Not a big deal to be honest, just supermarkets ripping farmers off at the end of the day.
The majority of farmed meat goes to places like KFC, McD's and into frozen meals so if you buy any of those then you are eating a 'standard' chicken.
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The majority of farmed meat goes to places like KFC, McD's and into frozen meals so if you buy any of those then you are eating a 'standard' chicken.
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14 February 2008, 11:28 AM
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If you ever see inside one of those houses full of factory farmed chickens you might just have your mind made up for you. The poor creatures are stuffed with special growth hormomes and get so fat that they can hardly stand let alone walk. They are just about shoulder to shoulder in there too. When the packers clear the shed out, and not very gently either, they have to steam the place out to get rid of the ecoli which breeds there. Every day they have to comb the shed for the dead ones.
Although I am not vegetarian I still have respect for animal life and feel that they should at least have some kind of life before they are slaughtered.
Proper free range chickens are much better to eat anyway, and a good deal more healthy food too.
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Although I am not vegetarian I still have respect for animal life and feel that they should at least have some kind of life before they are slaughtered.
Proper free range chickens are much better to eat anyway, and a good deal more healthy food too.
Les
14 February 2008, 11:37 AM
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I've only ever used free range eggs and chicken.
Annoying now the sheep are following the tv stuff as it's harder to get hold FR chicken now.
Annoying now the sheep are following the tv stuff as it's harder to get hold FR chicken now.
14 February 2008, 11:52 AM
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Free range / organic whenever possible.
Fooking expensive but the taste is better and it's worth it for their welfare and mine as the antibiotics/hormones etc that standard chickens are filled with does not bear thinking about.
Fooking expensive but the taste is better and it's worth it for their welfare and mine as the antibiotics/hormones etc that standard chickens are filled with does not bear thinking about.
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If you ever see inside one of those houses full of factory farmed chickens you might just have your mind made up for you. The poor creatures are stuffed with special growth hormomes and get so fat that they can hardly stand let alone walk. They are just about shoulder to shoulder in there too. When the packers clear the shed out, and not very gently either, they have to steam the place out to get rid of the ecoli which breeds there. Every day they have to comb the shed for the dead ones.
Proper free range chickens are much better to eat anyway, and a good deal more healthy food too.
Les
Proper free range chickens are much better to eat anyway, and a good deal more healthy food too.
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Growth hormones aren't used, selective breeding is what has made them so big, they are farmed for breast meat - again thanks to the public and our desire for a boneless ready to cook meal - so that's what they've been selected for, high meat yield.
At the same time disease resistance has gone up and the quality of food needed has gone down. Ask the old and they'll tell you chicken was a treat they had once a week if they were lucky, now, with these tougher birds (but bigger) it is the number one meat product and has a huge amount of business in the developing world where chicken is now a cheap source of protein that millions never used to have access to.
Not saying it is all ok, of course more space would be good, but there are a few fallicies here and a flip side to every coin.
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dont eat chicken 
but we have just started getting our meat from a trade meat butchers/cash and carry (perks of self employment, i told them i was going to sell burgers to the punters lol)
and i will never go back to supermarket meat ever again
but we have just started getting our meat from a trade meat butchers/cash and carry (perks of self employment, i told them i was going to sell burgers to the punters lol)
and i will never go back to supermarket meat ever again
14 February 2008, 03:34 PM
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free range every time for us.
Fair play to jamie olivier for that programme on chickens a few weeks ago. Always good to be able to make infomed choices
Fair play to jamie olivier for that programme on chickens a few weeks ago. Always good to be able to make infomed choices
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14 February 2008, 05:19 PM
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If you ever see inside one of those houses full of factory farmed chickens you might just have your mind made up for you. The poor creatures are stuffed with special growth hormomes and get so fat that they can hardly stand let alone walk. They are just about shoulder to shoulder in there too. When the packers clear the shed out, and not very gently either, they have to steam the place out to get rid of the ecoli which breeds there. Every day they have to comb the shed for the dead ones.
Although I am not vegetarian I still have respect for animal life and feel that they should at least have some kind of life before they are slaughtered.
Proper free range chickens are much better to eat anyway, and a good deal more healthy food too.
Les
Although I am not vegetarian I still have respect for animal life and feel that they should at least have some kind of life before they are slaughtered.
Proper free range chickens are much better to eat anyway, and a good deal more healthy food too.
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15 February 2008, 03:32 PM
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sorry to say that 'free range' means access to the outdoors. They are full of the same antibiotics and spend most of their time in the same type of shed as the standard birds.
Growth hormones aren't used, selective breeding is what has made them so big, they are farmed for breast meat - again thanks to the public and our desire for a boneless ready to cook meal - so that's what they've been selected for, high meat yield.
At the same time disease resistance has gone up and the quality of food needed has gone down. Ask the old and they'll tell you chicken was a treat they had once a week if they were lucky, now, with these tougher birds (but bigger) it is the number one meat product and has a huge amount of business in the developing world where chicken is now a cheap source of protein that millions never used to have access to.
Not saying it is all ok, of course more space would be good, but there are a few fallicies here and a flip side to every coin.
5t.
Growth hormones aren't used, selective breeding is what has made them so big, they are farmed for breast meat - again thanks to the public and our desire for a boneless ready to cook meal - so that's what they've been selected for, high meat yield.
At the same time disease resistance has gone up and the quality of food needed has gone down. Ask the old and they'll tell you chicken was a treat they had once a week if they were lucky, now, with these tougher birds (but bigger) it is the number one meat product and has a huge amount of business in the developing world where chicken is now a cheap source of protein that millions never used to have access to.
Not saying it is all ok, of course more space would be good, but there are a few fallicies here and a flip side to every coin.
5t.
I was wondering how they were bred to produce all that breast meat when they can hardly stand up let alone procreate.
The free range ones I have seen seem to be able to run around quite happily out of the shed and able to live in the way their instincts tell them.
You are quite right dpb, I like chicken soup too
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15 February 2008, 04:35 PM
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Since watching the Hugh Fearnley Whitingstall experiment with free range v battery methods,we have mostly changed to free range.I just cant seem to free myself from my occassional chicken and mushroom(translated:beak and bumhole)pukka pie and chips!
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Watched that Hugh Fearnley Whitingstall programme and have bought free range since but cannot tell any difference in the taste. It did put me off the cheap option a little but people will always buy to there budget
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