Chicken out...

If you saw the programme 'Chicken Out' this week then I suspect you'll think more carefully about what you buy for your Sunday lunch. In the programme Hugh Fearnley-Whittingshaw showed the way chickens are intensively farmed and compared it with allowing them to have some sort of life through free range farming. I guess unless you go vegetarian and decide to eat meat then you have to accept that the animal or bird is bred for the table. But we have obviously got to the point when chicken has become an everyday part of our staple diet, like bread or milk. The cheapness of intensively farmed chicken at the supermarket has made it such. However, when you actually see the conditions these birds have to live in for their whole existence you have to question if it is right to treat them like this. So, what to do? Stop eating them altogether or just buy those you know have at least had some sort of reasonable life. I think the latter at present because I quite like meat. The same will go for other meat too, I'm sure so it'll be off to the local farm shop to check out where the meat comes from and how it is farmed. I know from past experience it cooks and tastes better and often you get more meat even if it cost a bit more. There are various websites to visit relating to the 'chicken out' campaign - just Google chicken out and have a look...