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Chickens shoulf be able to be free, like orgasmic ones, to roam and run about like they wish.

anyway, the one marked Free range in Tescos today clearly was not co-operating. took one from the shelf, ( bit like an animal lib front person, but without the balaclava) put it on the floor and it didnt even attempt to escape.
Ungrateful thing.

so I put it back......that;ll learn it.

Autoquest

There's a lot of people around and they have got to be fed.... Scruples are great - When you can afford it.

sallytrafic · Southern Rally Co-ordinator

Those that think that animal welfare is worth considering will be pleased to know that the money was raised. So much so that my rather large bid for one of the 100 signed copies of his books wasn't a winner.

Yes people have to be fed. But when the need was greater during the war years for example there wasn't the cruelty that there is today and chicken was on the menu once in a while not available everyday at a profit to the battery farmer of a few pence per bird.

Spacerunner

I think the days of battery reared chickens are already numbered.
Two Cl's that I have visited over the last 15 years have closed down their battery business. I regularly pass pig breeding farms where the pigs are outside rolling in what pigs like to roll in and housed in community styes.
I have noticed supermarket customers increasingly choosing free range eggs.

Yes, i think farmers are getting the message and a conscience over their production methods. Now they have so much land standing idle they are able to use it to produce animals in better conditions.

What really worries me is when I walk through a corn field and see the totally sterile 'weed' free conditions there. No birds, no insects, no worms , no butterflies. The land looks sick!!

theboadacea

I can't always afford it but do only buy free range happy chickens now after being educated over that last few years by friends and now TV chefs's.

Everytime I go to the cheap chicken bit I feel all guilty and wonder how a life can only be worth £2.99. sob! Crying or Very sad

Did'nt watch the chicken programmes fully on TV, battery farming makes me feel ill, i've already stopped buying them. The next stage would be chaining self to the gates outside the farm and I reckon it would only take a couple more hours of watching chicken suffering for it to happen. Can't risk it! Shocked