We did it all wrong…
January 15, 2008
Probably a lot of people watched Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s program on the cheap chickens you buy at supermarkets - a protest against the intensive chicken farming in the UK. Quite an impressive piece of television. In this program he also experimented with people adopting a couple of free range hens where they would normally buy the cheap chickens at Tesco’s. One of the things he said to them: don’t name your hens, as you become too attached to them and you’ll have great difficulty killing them for their meat. They’re not pets!!
We named our hens, all six of ‘em. And I think they’re amazing creatures. So, what happens when the time comes that they no longer lay eggs. I’m not sure yet. We’ll wait and see…
By the way: we found this program so impressive, we said goodbye to cheap chicken meat. No more.
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We gave up cheap chicken meat a long time ago a lot was to do with the taste or lack of it and yes the thought that it was so tasteless due to the way it was produced. We haven’t looked back. I am dying to get some chickens but hubby won’t due to bird flu. I’m sure I’ll get some eventually and as to the other thing, well I used to work on a farm and I never could do that thing, although if the birds went away and came back plucked and dressed I’m sure I could eat them.
I probably will have no problem eating them, but wife has yet to get used to the thought. “That thing” we can ask for at a neighboring farm…