Having been a vegetarian for 17 years and only recently gotten back into eating meat, I eat very little meat actually. I very rarely buy chicken but if I do it's corn fed free range, all eggs are free range. My preferred meat is steak but I admit I dont choose the organic option, but I always ensure the meat is British. I dont eat any other meat, deffo never pork or lamb.

I dont eat fruit or veg so dont have to make a choice on that one!

Ok I give up, if you were a vegetarian for 17 years and you do not eat fruit or veg, what did you eat?

mmm, don't like his argument tbh. He is basically saying sod the chicken, he doesn't care if it has a rubbish life. He doesn't even seem guilty of that fact and is quite pleased that he can admit it.

Helen

The views put forward in ‘The Big Food Fight’ season are increasingly common ones espoused by an evangelical fooderati. This isn’t about chickens at all. It’s about a disgust at large-scale food production, our unhindered consumerism, our uneducated palates, all-powerful supermarkets, and our supposedly gross overconsumption. Packing a third less chickens in a factory shed and giving them rubber balls to play with, as illustrated in Hugh’s Chicken Run, is about making us feel a little bit better about eating them. The discussion about what’s ‘natural’ for chickens also helps to maintain a Disneyfied image of what farming looks like – something that looks rather like the River Cottage world we’ve watched over the past few years. As Fearnley-Whittingstall says in this new show, ‘this isn’t farming as I know it’. But River Cottage shows farming for the privileged few; it’s not the way you feed a nation of 60million people.

Her argument But fair enough, I don't expect everyone to agree with it. I don't entirely either but she makes some good points, I think. In particular this - But River Cottage shows farming for the privileged few; it’s not the way you feed a nation of 60million people

Oh, definitely. Maybe, as others have said, we just need to stop eating as much meat as we do.

Helen

Much as I would love to shop totally based on welfare, funds just won't allow these days.