GTB
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Hugh's Chicken RunI have, like many of you probably have, just watched Hugh F-W's latest offering towards the ethical rearing of farm animals. So far it has been an un-eye-opening programme with the expected response of the supermarkets who have been less than helpfull in giving their viewpoint on cheap poultry and also of the poultry farmers who don't want anymore bad publicity. Tomorrow's programme should be a the cruncher in showing people just what their food has to go through to get onto their plate. I have been against intensively reared chicken for quite a while now and I'm glad that someone like Hugh Fearnley-Whittenstall has the balls to make a stand in the public eye and tell it how it really is! I would rather go vegetarian than eat intensively reared chicken!
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Local lass
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i started the same thread in the food and drink section.
just watched the first part of the big food fight which was hugh frenley wittingstool his project was to show the difference between battary hens and free range hens.
he did this by setting up the shed and divided it in to two .
in just 48 hours the chicks on the battery side had doubled in size .they are being kept in artifical light for 23 and a half hours aday so that they will keep feeding.
the aim is to show what the supermarkets are selling on the two chickens for a fiver deals and to show how poorly treated the chickens are.in a 1m square they expect 17 chickens to live .and in just 39 days they are ready to be killed .
After watching the first episode i agree it does make you think about what you are eating .for me personaly it comes down to cost .on a tight budget if i can get two chickens for a fiver i will.rather than pay 7 quid for one bird.
thats where the main problem is for a lot of people .also they do not see it as a chicken they see it as a piece of meat .i know from experience i couldnt eat a chicken what i myself have brought up or known.
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Local lass
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watched the second part last night .my havnt those chickens grown.
on the whole though although it is a cruel process battery farming would never be wiped out even if we in the uk stopped eating it .how about fast food chains. take a bet that they dont do free range.
on another forum the comment came up they know no difference.
there is another programme on at the mo called kill it cook it eat it .
its on bbc three at the moment 1030pm.
its a studio build on to abbotior and it they do what the title says.
you can see the whole process.
they did suckling pigs and last night they did kid goats.
is it important to show are kids where food comes from?and should we as adults be more aware of what we are buying.
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Local lass
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watched jamies fowl dinners that was a eye opener 
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Peter Dolman
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chickensThe reality of life is that while the population may agree with the sentiment of these programmes people will go on buying 2 for a fiver because it is cheap and affordable.
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GTB
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I see Delia Smith was defending the "two for a fiver" chicken buyers on account that they may be on a tight budget. Does that mean that if you are hard up it is ethically ok to have cruelly reared animals for your dinner table because you can't cook properly?
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Local lass
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the chickens would no no different if they started of life as free range then no it wouldnt be ethical .but they started life as farmed .
whats your view on frois gras?
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GTB
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I have never eaten frois gras and have no intention of doing so. Where there is a deliberate attempt at food producers to create a fatty goose liver by force feeding them corn it really is a terrible image to project.
On the flip side, intensively reared chicken is just as cruel but on a massive scale.
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