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food products from battery hen should be illegal
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all in the title, discuss
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supply and demand, i think the easiest thing to do would be to educate people en masse, i know that sounds really hard, but its the only thing worth doing, as if people still buy, then chickens still die
I've not looked in on the Tesco thread for a while, but until consumers and retailers stop demanding the cheapest price (regardless of the "cost" of production) then IMO not much will happen other than the use of medication etc.
On the one hand we should stamp on dodgy farming practices such as the widespread use of antibiotics on poultry or the feeding of utter shit to cows. We have a biological timebomb in our hands if we don't stop now.
On the other hand we have to ensure that no farmer is tempted to do the above. We must ensure supermarkets, which again must shoulder a lot of the blame here, pay farmers decent prices for their produce. It's no surprise many farmers go for mass battery chicken farming if all they get is 3p per bird.
Personally I'd ban battery chickens for sure. In fact I'd introduce a programme to ensure all eggs eventually sold in this country are free range.
Production lead subsidies encourage mass production, not quality or enviromental concerns.
Flat payments to farmers regardless of production and education of consumers would do a lot.
Bopz
Me, I pay twice the price for organically-reared free range chickens, sometimes from a local farm, sometimes from Waitrose.
You pays your money, you take your choice - simple really! Ain't rocket science!!
Same applies to many other products, trouble is people buy food on price and appearance (which can be deceptive!)
We've got to face up to the facts that if we want decent food we've got to pay more for it. We've got to get away from this "cheap" approach to food shopping.
'Pure' food is indeed expensive and whilst brushing aside the hormones shoved in to the animals think of the damaging preservatives and E numbers.
Ok, ex-veggie and someone who been to many a animal rights protest, but its illegal for a cat or a dog to live in these conditions...why isn't it for Chickens?
i think lubys saying, that antibiotics have made bacteria more resistant to us and thus more of us who are less resistant have died, thus elaving us mroe resistant
Us being resistant to disease is not a bad thing. Various bacteria being resistant to anti-biotics is, and that is NOT what they have said.
it's make us less immune to illness, and can make antibiotics much less effective...
thats what i ment to say