If you order a free-range chicken from the butchers?!
Would butchers be honest and sell you a genuine one, or just pass anything off as free range, when in fact, it's not?
Are butchers able to buy in free range chicken?
Is is 'safer' to just go to the supermarket and buy a labelled one?
Answers: Then how do you tell if it really is free range?
Would butchers be honest and sell you a genuine one, or just pass anything off as free range, when in fact, it's not?
Are butchers able to buy in free range chicken?
Is is 'safer' to just go to the supermarket and buy a labelled one?
Trading standards laws make it illegal to advertise a product as something different to what is being offered. Like free range eggs it says it on the packaging and I would assume the packaging in the butchers chicken will say those words. I know everyone is concerned about battery farming due to the cruelty and the risk of bird flu. But the butchers are independent meat retailers and their meat is usually better quality.
Butchers have to by law give you a free range chicken if you ask for one. Most are buying them in, as well as caged chickens.
It's the eggs you wanna keep an eye on. Most farms sell free range, or if you're like me, get yoru own chickens for fresh eggs every day!
What`s the difference between believing the butcher than the supermarket?Supermarket labels are somewhat ambiguous
The local butcher has a lot to lose if he sells something which is not as advertised.
Personally I`d go to the butchers.
The producer of the chicken has to certify that the chicken is 'free range.' Bear in mind, this is largely a technical term, it does not mean that the chicken was running around the back yard or that they picked it up on the side of the road. The regulation for free range is just that the chicken had to have had some minimum space on its own, which could just mean a slightly larger pen.
i would trust our local butchers over any supermarket. but then it is a very good butchers. there is one down the street which looks the same but doesnt source its products in the same way. so do a little bit of research before you buy and choose your butcher carefully.
I would trust a good butcher over the best supermarket anyday for quality and honesty. If a supermarket can twist words in any way whatsoever to make something sound better they can and do.
I would even doubt that a good butcher would stock the grossly reared chicken like they do in supermarkets.