Has Hugh fearnley Whittingstall converted you?!
Answers: I do try to buy Free Range, but its expensive so I dont always, I just wondered how many of you have now been converted to free range?
We've watched the programme and definitely will be buying free range from now on. I will have to question when at restaurants too. It was a very hard hitting programme and almost converted me to vegetarianism but as one of the guys said, we need to look after them because they are are food. Fair play to Hugh, it's not easy to challenge the norm and make a change for the better in this day and age of consumerism. Yes, I agree we need to look at how all our animals are reared but I strongly believe that the clothing industry needs to also be addressed in terms of cheap/child labour. I think if we actually saw where ￡5.00 Tesco jeans come from it would have an even more dramatic effect on the general public.
He's converted me into a Hugh Fernley Whittingstall hater, what a frightful oaf. Tip top.
In the woods there is plenty of "free-range" food. Grab a shotgun and get going!
He has converted me into being a vegetarian.
He converted me sometime ago,why would you want to eat an animal that's been reared lying in it's own p*ss? Just look at intensive reared chickens legs and you'll see burn marks from it's own and others waste! If you really have to eat meat, at least ensure the animal has led a reasonably comfortable life instead of some poorly neglected creature stuck in a sh*thole barn with no natural light or stimulus!!!!
I was on the brink of being converted and he has tipped the balance for me. I will never buy battery hens again. I have always brought free range eggs but couldn't afford the F/R chickens but I will now.
Thank goodness the government has finally stepped in and is going to end battery reared chickens.
Well done Hugh!
It has certainly given me food for thought.
I think those that choose not to buy free range when they really want to but don't should look in their shopping trolley and ask themselves is there something they could go without to afford it. Loose one big packet of premium crisps, a packet of choccie biscuits and change the pre-packed fruit and veg for your own selected veg and you're probably there.
For years people have thought how terrible to buy eggs from caged chickens but no-one thought the same of the intensively reared chickens.
I can afford organic and free range and do so out of choice but I am guilty of eating KFC and picking up a pre-cooked chicken to give the kids a quick tea sometimes. That's what I find hard to stop.
The slaughter of the underweight birds saddened me a lot. Just the number of those birds that were killed each year for being a size 4!
This supermarket animal welfare made interesting for me a month ago. Take a moment to look.
http://www.ciwf.org.uk/supermarkets/inde...
http://www.ciwf.org.uk/supermarkets/page...
M&S weren't commented on in this program though. Their results in the compassion stakes are much much higher than all the others so I guess it would be "teaching them to suck eggs"!
Also as the program showed many people don;t know how to get the most from a chicken and perhaps wouldn't have to so many cheap chickens if they knew what to do with the leftover roast.
Looking forward to the rest of Channel 4's food offerings this week.
Yeah, I will.
I can get two decent family-sized meals out of one bird, so it's no more expensive than what I'd usually spend each night on our meal - about ￡3.50 for our meat/fish. It's only once a week as well.
I always buy free-range, organic eggs and I don't even notice the price.
Battery hens have got an even worse life than broiler chickens - they spend 2 years in tiny cages with four other hens, knocking out eggs. They live in dirt and sometimes with the corpses of dead birds around them if the farmer hasn't noticed and removed the bodies.
Watch Jamie Olivers programme this Friday, Channel 4, 9pm about chicken in general and battery farms.
hugh converted me a long time ago. well done to hugh for his efforts.long may he continue.