Comments on: The Free Range Chicken Campaign http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-free-range-chicken-campaign Cooking - Photography & More Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:39:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-free-range-chicken-campaign#comment-3124 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:20:04 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-free-range-chicken-campaign#comment-3124 Alexia, An interesting proposition which I believe would require the mother of all marketing campaigns to win over the general public. I am not sure why it has to taste like chicken when so much of the chicken we eat is tasteless and, most especially the basterdised version of 'southern fried' that nobody in the US would recognise. Personally I believe we should all do our bit to ensure our food comes from a reliable, sustainable source where the welfare of the animal and/or land is paramount. We can all do something, a little is better than nothing and I need educating as much as the next person but do I want to eat or serve virtual reality meat? No. Eating 'food' created in a laboratory has all the appeal of southern fried battery chicken to me, but that's my opinion. Perhaps this blog's readers have a different point of view? I welcome a debate, it's what freedom of speech is all about! Alexia,
An interesting proposition which I believe would require the mother of all marketing campaigns to win over the general public. I am not sure why it has to taste like chicken when so much of the chicken we eat is tasteless and, most especially the basterdised version of ’southern fried’ that nobody in the US would recognise.
Personally I believe we should all do our bit to ensure our food comes from a reliable, sustainable source where the welfare of the animal and/or land is paramount. We can all do something, a little is better than nothing and I need educating as much as the next person but do I want to eat or serve virtual reality meat? No. Eating ‘food’ created in a laboratory has all the appeal of southern fried battery chicken to me, but that’s my opinion.
Perhaps this blog’s readers have a different point of view?
I welcome a debate, it’s what freedom of speech is all about!

]]> by: Alexia http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-free-range-chicken-campaign#comment-3113 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:09:14 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-free-range-chicken-campaign#comment-3113 I'm going to throw a spanner in the works here... I think. Ok, so free-range chicken, foie gras, etc etc all come under a general heading of animal welfare in the food industry. PETA have come up with an interesting concept - they're offering $1 million to the first scientist to come up with a marketable 'in vitro' meat. No joke, the offer is actually out there in the public and scientific domain now. Would anyone here eat it? If it tasted the same and meant saving the lives of billions of animals? Anyway, you can read more about here http://blog.peta.org.uk/2008/the-race-is-on-to-create-in-vitro-meat I’m going to throw a spanner in the works here… I think. Ok, so free-range chicken, foie gras, etc etc all come under a general heading of animal welfare in the food industry. PETA have come up with an interesting concept - they’re offering $1 million to the first scientist to come up with a marketable ‘in vitro’ meat. No joke, the offer is actually out there in the public and scientific domain now. Would anyone here eat it? If it tasted the same and meant saving the lives of billions of animals? Anyway, you can read more about here http://blog.peta.org.uk/2008/the-race-is-on-to-create-in-vitro-meat

]]> by: miles http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-free-range-chicken-campaign#comment-2959 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:42:51 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-free-range-chicken-campaign#comment-2959 Cid, Goose and duck liver is quite a treat, they do not posess anything like the fat content of a liver produced for foie gras but they make a good snack when pan-fried and served on buttered toast. Miles Cid,
Goose and duck liver is quite a treat, they do not posess anything like the fat content of a liver produced for foie gras but they make a good snack when pan-fried and served on buttered toast.
Miles

]]> by: Cid http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-free-range-chicken-campaign#comment-2952 Thu, 17 Apr 2008 10:21:22 +0000 http://www.milescollins.com/wordpress/the-free-range-chicken-campaign#comment-2952 Miles, I've been buying free range chickens and eggs for years now and if my local shops don't sell it, I don't buy the battery equivalents. Recently I was tempted by lack of time, to buy a ready prepared meal which had chicken in it but since it did not say free range, I put it back. On the foie gras subject ... what are the livers like when the animals are not force fed? Cid Miles,

I’ve been buying free range chickens and eggs for years now and if my local shops don’t sell it, I don’t buy the battery equivalents. Recently I was tempted by lack of time, to buy a ready prepared meal which had chicken in it but since it did not say free range, I put it back.

On the foie gras subject … what are the livers like when the animals are not force fed?

Cid

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