Chickens! - Don't count your chances before the Tesco vote

[alan refail]

I bet I know which way the vote will go at Tesco's AGM

[Johnboy]

Hi Alan,
Another intriguing one.
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"You can't budget your way out of an ethical issue... The gap between what Tesco says and what it does must be closed."
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Where profit is all important ethics somehow fly out of the window! It's a good job they don't make oil from chickens otherwise we would all be able to make a prediction.
JB.

[alan refail]

Johnboy

Hen oil - now there's a thought

Re the £1.99 Tesco chicken, by my (very rough) calculation, that would equate to chickens being sold in 1960 for between about 1/4 to 2/- (7 to 10 pence in the new money). That I do not remember. I wish I could recall how much they were when my mother sent me on my bike to the butchers in the fifties. All I do remember is that a quarter pound of boiled ham was half a crown.

[Geoff]

It's a pity he didn't focus his campaign on nutrition rather than welfare. If you saw his last programme he had a scientist on who had test results going back many years that showed that chicken used to be a low fat meat and a good source of Omega3 but now it is high fat and almost zero Omega3. I think it is the first time I have come across proof that a change in production method is nutritionally significant, there's certainly nothing equivalent to support organic vegetables as detailed analysis cannot find a difference.

[alan refail]

Guess what! I knew Hugh would get nowhere.

The sad thing is that people will go on eating, as Geoff rightly says, un-nutricious crap, and birds will go on being subjected to appalling conditions.

I hope all the people who take such pride in not eating red meat (from four-footed animals) can sleep at nights after a meal of industrial chicken.

[Chantal]

Just heard on the radio that Hugh only managed 10% of the vote. It ain't gonna happen.

Here it is

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7476829.stm

[Weed]

Its all about saving money or buying quality... most people today tend to buy cheap and don't bother about quality... perhaps even more so now the prices are rising higher

[Johnboy]

Hi Weed,
I appreciate what you are saying but at the HDRA potato day 2007 Cantal enquired the price of an organic chicken weighing just over 3lbs and the price was just over £15.00. How far would a 3lb chicken go towards feeding a family of four taking out the bones etc how much meat have you got.
So price is everything when you are trying to bring up a family, buying a house and leave just a little for recreation.
Here my 4lb free range chickens cost me just under £8.00 and this is from a meat syndicate. This is slightly more expensive than my local butchers but I know the provenence of my chicken it is not organic
but then I grow some of the grain used to feed it.
JB.

[Weed]

JB

I agree with you totally as I do see this first hand with my own daughter who is trying to bring up two small children, pay the mortgage and hold down a job after her husband walked out wanting the single life.

I tend to look at the reality side of things as you do so often...a £3 chicken...the retailer is going to want around 100% profit..there is the cost of raising the chicken plus a profit for the farmer all out of £3