The sh*t you learn from TV

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The Legend
 Exiled Scot in Maidstone
Just watching a programme on C4 about battery chickens - in the factory, ready to hatch eggs on a conveyor, heated, hatch, freshly born chicks separated from shells and bundled along a further conveyor, fall/roll off the end into crates, packed into stacks for shipping off for fattening. I'd never have guessed that's what happens. Mental industrialisation of food production :o
 
I know, but as metal licker says, I'd rather not have known :lol:
 
I used to work in the kitchen of an Indian Restaurant (as a KP). Now thats stuff you'd rather not know!
 
Free range and organic is a complete money making con.

I don't know why people become all wimpish where animal food production is concerned. If we all were then food production would be out the window.

Tim.
 
TitanTim said:
Free range and organic is a complete money making con.

I don't know why people become all wimpish where animal food production is concerned. If we all were then food production would be out the window.

Tim.
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Actually it's not. Free range avoids animal cruelty. Yes, if you eat meat it has to be killed, but there's no excuse for mistreating it during its short life. Yes there's a cost involved, I'm happy to pay it.

Organic avoids all the crappy chemicals pumped into meat and sprayed on veg, not to mention GMU, and is generally not much more expensive.

Personally I'm seriously thinking about vegetarianism and have cut right back on red meat and processed food. I've dropped a lot of weight and feel a lot better.
 
TitanTim said:
Free range and organic is a complete money making con.

I don't know why people become all wimpish where animal food production is concerned. If we all were then food production would be out the window.

Tim.
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an un-educated remark right there ! Clearly you have no knowledge on the situation at all. Im pretty sure caring about how other living creatures are treated is not wimpish in the slightest. Infact id say a complete disregard for the animals that die so you can eat is a cowardly way of looking at things. The torture that some of these ani als un-necesarily endure is disgusting. Try youtubing compassion in world farming ...that will make you realise the extent of the cruelty that happens behind the scenes.
 
Stuart Truman said:
Personally I'm seriously thinking about vegetarianism and have cut right back on red meat and processed food. I've dropped a lot of weight and feel a lot better.
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you should try to eat foods that are as close to their natural form as possible, so non processed food is better for you. Think of a Corn Flake....it doesnt look like that when it grows!

I obviously dont follow this advice, but it is a good thing to do.
 
I always try to eat organic/free range/etc. Agree with Stu, there is no need to mistreat livestock just because it's destined to be food.

:rofl: @ Kev!
 
I haven't eaten any poor quality unsourced meat for a couple of decades. Restaurants excepted. Being rich enough to afford ethical choices is nice. I don't miss dodgy pies but those horse, dog, and rat kebabmeat skewer things (once I have downed a few pints) still tempt me.
 
When I worked in Calgary (not the oil patch) a lot of our clients were in the Food Industry, poultry suppliers, Slaughterhouses/meat packers, meat processors etc etc.( they weren't affected by the price of oil so were a good solid base of customers)

After working a weekend or a few days t one of the poultry places I would tell the wife "No more chicken" , then a bit later I'd be down at one of the meat processors and would come and read off a laundry list of meat items we were "off" . I once did a repair and rewire on a machine that debones small cuts of meat scraps. I was in every corner and crevice of the machine fixing it and I asked what in particular the stuff is used for.

"Canned stuff, campbells, chef-boy-ardee, ravioli, spaghettios, etc etc. "
To this day, I won't have any of that type of product or anything like it in the house .....and this was all 30 yrs ago..... :thumbsdown:

If you want to talk about baby chicks..... call my friend Calvin Egg (yes that's his real name) , he was a partner in a hatchery and sold literally millions of baby chicks to chicken farms and to egg farms.... I wonder why he never mentioned how things were done there, at the hatchery...????
 
Carol M said:
I always try to eat organic/free range/etc. Agree with Stu, there is no need to mistreat livestock just because it's destined to be food.
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Eat organic.... I saw a report on the news here.... a large number of so called organic bakeries .... aren't. There aren't enough govt inspectors to keep them honest. One bakery when questioned stated that they hadn't used any organic flour for three years.... WTF?

Unless you actually see the chickens being fed I would bet large that they aren't "free range". :wink:
 
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