Hi my hubby and I were at the filming too.  It was quite shocking in places,   lets hope it gets the message across. 

I have now started buying free range eggs and chickens.  So it has had an impact on me.

Jenny and Daren

ps.  Well done Jamie   

markbchicken wrote:

As for the programme, I've seen that  Jamie getting the normal grief about it but at least he is using his celeb status to point out a few home truths many don't want to hear......legalised animal cruelty in our name ( the customers wanted cheap meat/eggs  bleat from supermarkets/wholesalers etc)....
Bloody good Job Jamie, I hope you and the other celebs talking about just what happens changes a few things, perhaps even get  the government to start protecting its farmers and by default the animals from the cheap imported rubbish out there??


Mark

    well said  

Thanks! 

In the Jamie at Home book, Jamie mentions that the main use of battery eggs is in commerical food production. Is a way to tackle this making it like animal testing and cosmetics? So "xyz" company uses battery eggs and people will be less inclined to buy the products until they use eggs from sources accredited by the RSPCA (or similar organisation). I suppose what is needed is a couple of companies to come out like that and make a bit of money and then the trend to be started.

Hi Mark....I had almost given up on hearing from you...really nice too!
What is your name on PP??? i have tried messaging you but think i got the wrong bloke!!! Not good!
You (or anyone infact who would like some more info of very deserving ex bats) can contact me on 01803 812650
It would be great to keep intouch. Jane asked me the other day if I had any luck tracking you down

Hello also to Jenny & Daren...where were you at the filming???? I was just a stand in as someone on the "junk food table" didnt turn up, I was only supposed to be there as a "chicken handler" and bag carrier etc...and ended up with the junk food adicts    

Thanks also to everyone else for your nice comments...have a look at our website bhwt.org.uk for further info.
Hears hoping for a free range future!

Lisaxxxx

Welcome to the forums Lisa Devon and faverollahen 

First of all I thiink that you would be wise to edit your posta and remove the personal information...this is a very open site and putting your phone numbers could make you vunerable as you never know who is reading .


When I was a child, chicken was not the everyday meat that it is nowadays. It was expensive relative to lamb and pork.
A roast chicken was considered a treat and the leg meat was always brown.The brown meat was not always popular and as a result the co.lour of the leg meat changed as it was 'bred out of the chickens'.

Nowadays chicken is probably one of the most commen meats that are consumed, many of the farming methods used are realy grim and often these birds never see the light of day.

I used to live in a town that had a 'chicken factory' I would see lorries containing crates packed full of chickens being driven through the town.
These creates were piled quite high.
The poor chickens .
It was a grim site and if I had not already been a vegetarian then it would of turned me towards being so.

Dispite being a vegetarian, I cook meat for my family , I cook chicken.
I am guilty of buying some supermarket chickens ,but ,I try to buy the better ones.

The same applies to eggs, I try to buy the better eggs .
The chickens that produce battery farmed eggs are kept in miserable conditions. The eggs have a poor colour and a poor taste.

My friend has recently started keeping chickens, they are so 'cute' and all have their own charecters. They wander about her garden all day long and sometimes sneak into the house !
Parts of her lovely inner-city garden have been turned to a muddy patch by the chickens , but that does not matter, the chickens add a great sense of life to an otherwise (or used to be!!) organised garden.
The bonus is the fantastic eggs that they produce, a rich deep yellow yoke and the white of the egg that keeps well together.
She has 6 little eggs a day  (one each from her 6 chickens).
There is nothing better than a fresh laid egg for breakfast.

Alas ,my garden is realy tiny and it would be unfair to any chickens to be kept there and so I have to be content with seeing them on a visit to my friends house .