2 posts tagged “battery chickens”
| I hope Lesley does not mind me posting these pictures in here... Well first of all, I have some pictures of my 2 new hens. Florence and Ermintrude. I think that Florence is a really nice, fitting name so thankyou to Egluntine for the suggestion!  Florence:  Florence has a bad leg. It is quite badly bruised and therefore she stands on one leg and only just manages to hop around. John and Monica assure me that she shall get better soon which is good news! Ermintrude:  Ermintrude is the baldish chicken in the picture above (middle) she looks white and has very little colour in her. Despite her lack of plummage she is very lively, she was so brave that she jumped the fence between John and Monica's hens and the new rescue hens to join in with the established flock! Fortunately we resuced her before she recieved some unwanted attention from Albert the cockerel and of course any other bully hens!  Here is a picture of the pair of them together:  Yesterday was very cold and there were several hens who were effected by the weather due to their lack of feathers, here they are:  John and Monica are now using the Eglu Cube as a henspital for any ill hens. At the moment it is occupied by one blind hen and one hen with egg peritionitis: Tilt your head for this one!   Bless them! Not a bad day. Lesley was very prompt which is what we like! We only had 2 people who did not arrive before the 2pm deadline, but one phoned to tell us they were running late and the other was only half an hour or so late. The weather kept out for us as per usual, I just hope that Florence and Ermintrude are ok with the winds tonight...  Martin |
'I can't get into the politics of food'
..quoted Delia Smith in today's Daily Mail.
'Fair enough' you might think, but that quote completly contradicts what she has said in the rest of the article. Today's headline on page 5 is 'Let them eat battery chickens'
I was completly shocked to see her picture alongside this headline, and I can only think that it is some sort of publicity stunt, to win/reclaim fans which she has recently lost to Gordon Ramsay, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Jamie Oliver. Her comments will be music to the ears of people like Hayley (the single mum on HFW's programme, she was involved with the chicken project but refused to buy Free-Range chicken) and just about anyone who thinks they are hard done by, I quote 'access to cheap chicken is crucial for poor families and pensioners.' Did she watch Hugh's programme? Did she take anything on board? You can give a hen a happy life for a an extra pound or so and Hugh and Jamie have proved that a chicken can go further than a one off roast.
Delia's comments are disgraceful, how she can call herself a proffesional/celebrity chef and then condemn a battery chicken as nutritous food? Delia said 'We have got to make sure everybody gets enough nutritious food in the first place.' Cheap chicken is far from nutritious, it is fed so much rubbish and pumped with so much crap that there is surely no possible nutritional value to the consumer.
It is a shame to see such an influential person such as herself backing such a cruel and unruly practice. People tend to use Delia as a role model for their own home cooking, the Daily Mail reports that since her reccomendations in her column in Daily Mail's Weekend Magazine, Marks and Spencers have confirmed an astonishing 50 percent rise in sales of roasted yellow and red peppers. I am hoping that people give her latest ideas the boot, YOU vote with YOUR shopping trolley, buy Free Range or Organic chicken and eggs
Delia has got what she wanted, publicity.
On a positive note the Daily Mail also reveals that that 'sales of Organic Chickens have soared by 36 per cent since the airing of Jamie's Fowl Dinners and Hugh's Chicken Run.'
I went to Tesco's last night, and I was pleased to see only ONE Organic chicken left it was not because they were understocked but they were selling out! Tesco need to order in more stock!
Thankfully I do not have any Delia cookbooks, but if you do please put them out for recycling or even better, start a fire!
Martin
P.S Please feel free to cut out the image and stick to dart board.
P.P.S You can read the whole artical here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=514633&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490
