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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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