I just went to Waitrose to get my chicken.
Regular 'shares our welfare standards' bird, 1.8kg, £5.50.
Free-range bird, 1.8kg, £9.60.
Christ.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 4 Feb 2010, 10:25, 1 reply, 16 years ago)

Je'us!

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 4 Feb 2010, 10:34, Reply)

No kiddin'.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 4 Feb 2010, 10:37, Reply)

How much would a bog standard chicken cost?

( girlinthehole, Thu 4 Feb 2010, 10:40, Reply)

Tesco were doing medium caged birds, two for five quid last year.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 4 Feb 2010, 10:43, Reply)

God that's awful.
You can just imagine how they've been treated.
( girlinthehole, Thu 4 Feb 2010, 10:46, Reply)

Good.
I hate the evil beady-eyed scratchy little fuckers. Make them suffer, I say.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 4 Feb 2010, 10:48, Reply)

I had a dream about chickens last night.
Odd. Did you watch Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's show about standard birds and welfare standards? It was Tesco's two for a fiver thing that kicked it off.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 4 Feb 2010, 10:51, Reply)

I did.
And I had a long, leisurely wank, watching them all falling over and diseased.

In truth it was fairly shocking. I like Hugh - my brother-in-law's father's organic watercress farm was featured once.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 4 Feb 2010, 10:57, Reply)

He is a fucking legend.
He's accompanied me on my culinary revolution and inspired me to one day go hunting and fishing and kill, skin, gut, cook and eat my quarry. One day.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 4 Feb 2010, 11:01, Reply)

Actually
Caged birds are treated a hell of a lot better than the ones which are raised in communal areas in sheds. Even free range birds will attack the weaker members of the group. Battery farming may seem cruel, and of course it's far from ideal, but other methods of raising birds have their own problems.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 4 Feb 2010, 10:50, Reply)

Settle down Hugh
I suppose if they have been brought up only knowing 'the cage' then they don't really know what they are missing, therefore it isn't cruel at all and in fact is nice and cosy and fox free.
(Cancer Joy was short lived, Thu 4 Feb 2010, 10:52, Reply)

Even then, I'm not sure a chicken would watch a video of free-range birds wandering about and pecking at seed
and go "Ooh, I'd like a bit of that myself."
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Thu 4 Feb 2010, 10:59, Reply)

Don't forget
To roast parsnips and carrots with the chicken. Yum!
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 4 Feb 2010, 10:50, Reply)