Hugh`s Chicken Run

[firefoxxx]

Have you watched Hugh`s Chicken Run on channel 4 this week??

What are you thoughts on factory farms and how they produce cheep chickens(pardon the pun)
Is Hugh Fernley Whittingstall right to expose this way of farming,will it make a difference??
Or would you rather be left in the dark??

The last part of the series is on tonight on channel 4 at 9pm,

Make up your own minds

[firefoxxx]

There are many issues here that make me mad,putting them to one side though,
My question is why are the supermarkets so closed about this,even the ones who say they don't use such methods to produce chicken!!!

Only Free Range chickens and eggs for me,i would rather pay a little extra for taste

[J.J.]

I purposely didn't watch it as it looked like it may be a bit upsetting. I only buy free range chicken products myself already, if i had have watched that programme I have a sneaking suspicion I wouldn't have eaten chicken again-which would be a problem as it is really the only meat I eat.
Sometimes I think we see more than we need to, as you say, the government should regulate and have strict rules about any food farming and the supermarkets should know and care where there products come from.
Unfortunatly with every supermarket trying to undercut the other, they buy as cheap as possible. If they only stocked free range products we would buy them. For a £1 or so extra you get a better product, the eggs are larger and the yolk is the correct colour for a start

[firefoxxx]

Just seen on the news ,the government has put a set date to ban factory farms in the UK..

Looks like they are getting the message,if you don't do what the majority of the people want your out sunshine

[firefoxxx]

JJ look for local farm shops in your area,
http://www.farmshop.uk.com/?gclid=CM...FQaNHgod4n3nOQ
Link might help
My local one is as cheap as Tesco`s and far Superior in quality of fruit,veg and meat..
No need to persuade you to buy the produce here with fancy packaging with lovely rural views and rolling English countryside with a cheery farmer on

where i go you see what you can buy in the fields and the farmer and his daughter sells you the produce,no fake marketing here..LoL

[J.J.]

Thanks FF-will have a look, glad to see the government has took notice
Hopefully it will go a way to stopping the atrosity I have just watched on the news of the poor horses, ponies and donkeys just left to die with out food or water, they were being bred for meat. Very upsetting to see