How awful! I didn't see the programme.

Funnily enough we were talking the other day (before this programme) about buying better quality chicken - although I'd happily go fish and veg anyway.

No, farmers perhaps isn't the best way to describe them, but I couldn't think of a better word! Sadly I do think that once the images are out of peoples minds, they'll go back to buying intensively farmed chickens. Like that stupid woman on the programme!
I have to say we're probably one of the few towns left in the country not to have a Tesco. They applied for planning permission to build on the old bus station, but the public vote basically yold them to p*ss off!

Turns out later that they'd mislead people into believing their supermarket wouldn't damage local businesses by producing "made up" stats!

I'm not a Tesco lover either, the dairy I work for is thinking of making butter for Tesco and Tesco have told them that they (the dairy) have to pay the £800 odd bill for transport
Becky

I watched the program (already knew how they lived/were killed etc), but i'm one of the people who can't afford to buy free range chicken.
If I bought a free range chicken, thats 2 or 3 other ingredients meals that I wouldn't be able to buy. (And no, I don't buy any ready meals/frozen food).
We eat meat/pasta/fresh veg every day - veg from the local market.

My eggs are free range - my sister, Isochick gives them to me, from her own chickens.

I'm afraid at the moment, free range eggs are the only way I can help!

Oh, and I also shop at Tesco, cos it's my nearest supermarket - 1/2 a mile away!

I also think this will happen, more's the pity

Could you perhaps try buying a free range chicken (if you do eat chicken) and making 2 meals out of it, or else eat less meat of a better quality. This is what I did when I lived on my own.

Just got back from my M & S shop armed with one of their chickens. It's an Oakham, it doesn't state that it's free range on the pack, but then they had a great big notice up on the shelf stating that their Oakham chickens were allowed to roam free, etc. etc. I can't remember all of it, so that suits me fine.

In actual fact, you get far more meat on the more expensive "free range" type chickens than you do on the cheap ones from Tesco (which I just wouldn't eat anyway)because they are all pumped full of water, so by the time you cook it, you've probably got less meat per £1 anyway?

The only reason I won't eat anything but free range, or farm shop, butcher, whatever, is because I saw a very scarey programme about what was going on with some of that condemned chicken. They had it piled up in mounds at various farms around the Country, stinking and rotting, and then they took it inside and bleached it etc. etc. and when it was packed (especially the skinless breasts!) it looked just like the stuff you see on the supermarket shelves. I like to know where mine has come from thankyou!

i do appreciate some people can't afford free range....but I agree with H, you do get more meat on a free range bird and it tastes better too...what about the RSPCA freedom foods? Not quite totally free range...but an improvement non the less????

We dont just use a chicken for 1 meal!
It does 2 or 3 meals, then the rest goes on sandwiches for lunches, and the bits we can't eat - Teagan has!

We actually don't eat a lot of chicken anyway!

I would never buy a whole chicken.

We use our local butchers who supply free range, local meat (chicken, beef, lamb and pork).

I buy either their individual breast fillets, or their diced chicken, which is leg meat etc which they've removed from the chicken and diced.

Eggs are from my own 4 chickens in the garden

Actually, thinking about it, we don't eat a lot of meat generally.....