Free Range Chickens vs Intensive (battery) Chickens, That is the question
Celebrity, Living, News, Politics, Random, Science Add commentsSo it has been a while since my last post. The break has done me some good. I was starting to feel like this blog was taking over my life. In conversations with people instead of chatting away I was thinking ooooh I could blog about that and not paying attention. So anyway, I felt like I needed a break to get the blog/life balance back on track. This T-shit sums up how I was feeling.
So anyway, onto business. You must have seen all the Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Chicken Run programme, or seen him on the news or whatever. He is also getting Senior Oliver involved, which pretty much means it is going to become the biggest thing on the political agenda before too long.
So what did you guys think? Do battery chickens have a good enough life, or is it free range all the way for you? Maybe battery chickens lives could be improved a little bit and then they would still be cheap, but not abused.
I have always bought free range eggs, I have now vowed never to get another battery chicken. It is no life for a chicken. I think if you can’t afford to buy a normal (free range) chicken that has lived a normal life that every chicken should have the right to live, then maybe that should mean you can’t afford to buy a chicken full stop. This is just my opinion - What are your thoughts?
Big Love
Ryan
January 10th, 2008 at 1:17 pm
I always buy free range. I dont like they way their killed though. So industrialised. In essence their all born and killed on a factory line - in the end its not much better if their allowed outside.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=bkuohLV2u0k
^ how their born
and you’ve seen how they die.
I have no objections to taking a chicken into the shed and chopping its head off I just dont like to conveyor belt of death.
January 10th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
I am against them. I always go Free Range. One thing that did make me chuckle was however my dad and his woeful grasp of Economics.
“Food is so expensive at the moment, and I want it to not be so expensive.”
Next sentance:
“I’m glad they stopped the cruel practice of battery farming.”
Personally, everything would be a lot cheaper, easier and nobody would starve if we were all veggies. So says my burger dodgers, anyway.
January 10th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
@Rhys. Ha that is the kind of thing I would say.
Also I heard, but have no idea of it’s true or not, but if everyone in the world was vegetarian, they would have to kill lots of animals to make room for crops (I don’t think that is true… who the hell could work that out!)
January 10th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Being a student money is a top priority and I hardly ever buy a whole chicken. The average price difference of about 2-3 quid is a fairly big jump but to be honest I think it’s worth it just to know the poor thing wasn’t raised in such horrible conditions. I try whenever possible to buy my meat and eggs from local farms which I know are free range and/or organic.
It’s not just the living either, meat raised in a better environment tastes a lot nicer so it’s a double positive for me.
January 15th, 2008 at 8:12 am
I’ve never bought anything but free-range eggs, but the ACTUAL chickens I haven’t even thought about it. I’ve just bought them… so I guess I like to think I care, but really don’t have a soul.
February 14th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
I personally think free range chickens are a positive idea but generally dont think about where my chickens come from but go for the most reasonable price.
June 12th, 2008 at 1:38 pm
“Also I heard, but have no idea of it’s true or not, but if everyone in the world was vegetarian, they would have to kill lots of animals to make room for crops (I don’t think that is true… who the hell could work that out!)”
Hey Ryan
Most of the crops today are fed to farm animals, so that is absolute BS!
Thanks for the post