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Frankenchickens in the news

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If the U.K is left with little option but to import this stuff then there should be VERY clear labeling on country of origin before the first birds hit our shores. I have long advocated for this so that the consumer has a full and clear choice in what he/she purchases. This is, of course, impossible with the ready meal type foodstuffs prevalent in stores today where ingredients from multiple countries are brought together but as I never buy that kind of food it worries me little.
It makes me wonder why the North American consumer would eat this, is there no concerted effort at all to educate people on the plight of the animals and the risks to human health?
 
Does organic make a difference ? Sure does with non gmo feed and pesticides etc but what about the way they're raised?
 
Kristin251 said:
Does organic make a difference ? Sure does with non gmo feed and pesticides etc but what about the way they're raised?
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The link @serenity648 posted states "Organic farmers use slower growing strains which are typically not slaughtered until around 81 days." A life span measured in days when it is naturally years. Oldest known chicken lived to 16 years.

I can see the DM comments section today at work. Quite a mixed bag of opinions.
 
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Do people not know or do they not care? :confused:
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Both I'd say, but the majority want cheap chicken and intensive farming methods mean there's a higher risk of food poisoning as a result of these practices.

The way these creatures are reared and treated is deplorable, but when we are buying a whole chicken for under £4 in a supermarket we know that they've not had any quality of life, in an ideal world it would be great if all chickens were free-range/organic and left to roam in the outdoors.
 
Avocado Sevenfold said:
Do people not know or do they not care? :confused:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4742712/Why-chickens-washed-chlorine.html

(The DM comments section is not loading for me so I am asking here)
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Quite alarming. The suspicion must be over why they need to use chlorine and it can only be because the production process up to that point is sub standard. If they had proper cleanliness in place it wouldn't be necessary. I don't think we want this, or hormone fed meat either. The other problem is a race to the bottom in standards after Brexit. It will then be impossible to sell our chicken into the EU market.
 
Glad I always buy organic. I stock up on turkeys at thanksgiving to last through the year. We cook them as needed and freeze the pieces for lunches.

I bought a pastured organic ( treated myself) last year and it was amazing. I had so much dark meat. After I contacted the farmer I was told that's how you can tell they're free range and pastured eating their natural diet as they are running around finding food using their legs. I will definitely get one again after seeing this article !!
 
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Where we spend our winters there is a lot of American imported chicken. It's actually very easy to work out which is which, by the naked eye there.

Everything is supersized, the extent that in the early days, I used to have the check the labels because I thought some of the chicken breasts were actually small turkey. They're also very bright pink. I dread to think what they're fed on, but they are indeed cheap.

Not appetising at all.
 
I will go without eating meat rather than eat anything reared in those kinds of conditions. The way they are kept is completely disgusting and heartbreaking and I definitely wouldn't want to eat anything that had needed to be washed in chlorine.

Thank you @Avocado Sevenfold for bringing this to my attention. x
 
I know I have the 'power of the purse', I boycott certain brands and certain supermarkets/stores accordingly. Many of us are constrained by tight budgets but it costs nothing to not buy a particular foodstuff. We hear the phrase 'the housewife demands...' but in most cases it is the supermarkets who stock items that make them profits and bears nothing to do with what consumers want. For example, the cost of milk in supermarkets is decided by the store and does not refelect the cost to the farmer in producing that milk.
The cost of rearing these frankinchicken birds must be very low because we have learned that they will be cheaper by weight than the birds we buy now.
 
Apparently air chilled is the cleanest way to go. Pretty expensive but I only eat small portions so I'll take the plunge. Now I'll always think of this thread. Good and bad
 
There's a reason we only had chicken 5 times a year when I was a kid (Xmas, Easter and our birthdays) - to rear them in a humane way makes them expensive. I would prefer them to be expensive and reared the right way. Better for the chickens and also better for those who eat them. God knows what awful fear hormones and other rubbish we are digesting with our meat.
 
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