There is a woman on there who refuses to buy free range chickens because they cost an extra £1.50 per chicken. Money is extremely important to her so she buys factory farmed chicken.

I struggle with money too and agreed with her until I saw her smoking a ciggie. She can't afford £1.50 for a chicken but can afford £5 to buy a packet of ciggies!!!

My god I would throttle her!

and the fact she just admitted to buying free range ducks.

Is she the one who's just been crying as they killed one?

Yes she's now crying so perhaps this will change her attitude????

Yea....but she's addicted to fags.

I have never heard of someone addicted to chicken.

yes, she said she can only feel sympathy for them if its a cute animal, and now shes crying her eyes out

Its the hypocracy (sp?) that drives me mad. She could afford a free range chicken but sees it as wasted money, but ciggies aren't?

she buys factory farmed chicken. ... and what's wrong with that?

... and what's wrong with that?

I was also thinking this...:huh:

It's her life.

well it was a program aimed at showing people that eating factory farmed chickens isn't the best for the chicken or the taste, they showed free range are happier in their short life, not fed so much rubbish and are treated better.

I don't understand the crying...

Why do people cry over animals, but they treat each other so badly ?
It does not make sense !

They ALL end up dead.

And please understand that ALL chickens are grown on farms, not in factories, not in cages, not in boxes.

On farms.

yeah but in boxes/cages on farms :)

The issue is hypocrisy about animal cruelty - people want to see sports like fox hunting and shooting banned but are perfectly happy to consume meat (like intensively produced chicken) that has been produced under inhumane conditions just because it is a little cheaper and they can't actually see the animal suffering.
Chickens that are reared under intensive conditions undergo a great deal of suffering in their short lives (I won't go into details) and when there is a more humane, and some say healthier, option available then if people are committed to reducing animal cruelty then they should choose it.
Otherwise leave off hunting with dogs, shooting, fishing, racing, bull fighting, badger baiting and so on - all on the same spectrum of animal cruelty more or less.

yeah but in boxes/cages on farms :)
Nope. You don't really believe that birds are grown in cages and boxes do you?

You are mixing up mass egg production from mature birds with birds destined for the table. They are very different.

no i dont believe chickens are grown out of boxes, but from watching that show last night i reckon my chicken would taste better free range, the sight of some of those birds was rough, birds twitching and unable to stand up beacuse of the way they are treated cant be good for you.

I agree that free range is kinder to the birds and that under the right conditions it can produce a better tasting meat but on the flip-side I don't believe that shed growing is inherently cruel.

By all mens threat them well but at the end of the day, these are birds with brains the size of peanuts and we shouldn't be anthropomorphising them.

true, at the end of the day they are just chickens and not humans- but people will have different views on this. basically i just want my chicken to taste good :)

spending a week with hugh sounds like a right treat!! i watched it and agreed with every word he said, while putting some bernard matthews chicken kievs in the oven............