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So what we eat are dictated by those (two men to be exact) people at Tesco? No wonder the nation is doomed ... The main guy looks very evil with sinister intention i.e. I tell you what to eat, but to be fair there is a catch 22 here with stupid customers eating behaviour.
FFS! Are people so dumb? What? You cannot let children see the offal of pigs? You cannot even mention offal? You cannot eat the pig heart? Tongue?
Those women on focus group ... You have never had it so good. So they teach their children not to eat offal related products and children learn not to eat them by simply associating with those words.
Triple dip recession please ...
HFW would have done it better.
The male calf / veal issue last week provided mixed messages.
Why is it a welfare issue that make calves are shot at birth, but ok for them to be slaughtered at 3 or 6 months old for veal? Poor tele tbh.
Tesco: can't stand them.
Jimmy: IMO still trying too hard to find a platform that elevates him to Jamie Oliver status.
Why is it a welfare issue that make calves are shot at birth, but ok for them to be slaughtered at 3 or 6 months old for veal?
Currently thousands are shot and the meat not used, by encouraging veal production unwanted dairy calves can be used to produce a meat meaning their slaughter is not wasted.
Currently thousands are shot and the meat not used, by encouraging veal production unwanted dairy calves can be used to produce a meat meaning their slaughter is not wasted.
True, but that's an economic rather than welfare issue.
It's both IMO. The animal gets a good (if somewhat short) quality of life, as opposed to none at all. The rose veal producers in this country don't make much profit, it's done as its a better use of bull calves
Those male calf shot then to the waste is simply sinful regardless of whether you are a man of science or god. They should be used for meat British style i.e. not in a tight pen for veal.
People have got their heads stuck up their own backside so far they can no longer understand what light means. I have no sympathy whatsoever even if the price of meat triple because people are so wasteful they do not deserve to have meat ...
spacemonkey - MemberTesco: can't stand them.
Jimmy: IMO still trying too hard to find a platform that elevates him to Jamie Oliver status.
Can't stand most of the supermarkets because they have destroyed the local market/"control" people's eating habit and is in the process (some already) branch out to third world nations. Their objective is simple. To monopolise food in the third world because these big supermarket want to muscle in to control food chain. Fact. Oh ya ... especially Tesco.
Yes, Jimmy is trying to join his pal Jamie Oliver because there is a market or money to grab by preaching to those people who had never had it so good.
True, but that's an economic rather than welfare issue.
The reason they're shot and not used now is an economic issue, they're simply not wanted as cost money to raise so they get killed at a few days old.
Haven't watched it, don't intend to. It'll be vapid fluff-puff reactionary tv only comissioned to fill the hole in the scheduling left by the demise of Changing Rooms as some Nathan Barley reject in a focus group decided food is the new interiors...'cos like peeps aint selling tha cribs innit! Well weapon.'
It is a sad inditement of the modern world when celebrity chefs (and thier mates)are given so much air time to so stupidly tackle real problems that need decent discussion. It just reduces everything to soundbites for the masses; does anyone actually care about Hughs fish fight any more (or his chicken fight before that, or JO school dinners or Ramsays kitchen nightmares or wahtever).
Drac - ModeratorTrue, but that's an economic rather than welfare issue.
The reason they're shot and not used now is an economic issue, they're simply not wanted as cost money to raise so they get killed at a few days old.
Yes, for economic reasons because there is no demand for it due to the fact that people have no idea what they are eating ...
Therefore educating people is a good thing. In our town they've revived a monthly market which is full of local producers and craft type sellers. It's been a huge success and is definitely changing people's habits. An old fashioned green grocers has just opened round the corner selling all locally grown produce, hopefully he'll do well, it's been busy so far.
does anyone actually care about Hughs fish fight any more (or his chicken fight before that, or JO school dinners or Ramsays kitchen nightmares or wahtever).
Everything except Ramsey yes
Though I grew up on a farm so have some insight into good food production. Makes me angry to see NZ/Oz lamb on supermarket shelves flown half way round the world when we are quite good at sheep in the UK.
Free range chicken tastes better for a start and battery should be banned right now - just been done in Tasmania
It is a disgrace the way blunt fishing policy close minded shops/consumers is impacting on the health of fish stocks.
School meals are where kids start life, feed them sh*t at 5 what hope do they have.
We need to care more about food, farming and health than we do, if it takes TV to get that message out then well done!
Importing meat from far away is simply wasteful.
Free range chicken should be the standard rule.
Fishing policy ... that gets my blood boil ... could someone torpedo those fishing vessels that indiscriminately sweep every living things from the sea please. Bloody bunch of greedy buggers keep taking from the sea because it's "free" ... take, take, take, take ...
Feeding children junks and let their brains turn mushy ...
Not easy to get message across I am afraid because most have had too good for too long.
didn't HFW achieve some success in Europe with the fish fight?
FWIW I think any programme raising awareness of this kind of farming can only be a good thing. Tesco didn't do themselves any favours though by being so paranoid about Jimmy's motives.
Pook - MemberTesco didn't do themselves any favours though by being so paranoid about Jimmy's motives.
Those are the exact people that keep snowballing political correctness into the mindset of masses by assuming people do not like this and that just because they think they are right. Bunch of degenerates ...
What chewkw said.
They refused to stock Dara O'Briain's stand up DVD 'Craic Dealer' as it indicated a reference to drug use. All the other supermarkets stocked it.
Double you. Tee. Eff.
Just watched that on 4od. Cant understand how people can say they prefer the flavour of them , then reject them when they find out they contain heart and tongue etc.
I just wonder how many of those people eat faggots ?
That tesco chap is rather funny. He said that children don't eat herbs. My 5 year old does, and so does my 7 month old after some pasta last night.
Odd, Tesco telling us what's good and bad.
I loved the fact that they wouldn't show the "meat" going into the sausage machine in the factory down to the PR ladys request. I guess they were worried of loosing customers when they saw the rubbish that was pulped into them.
My 4 year old is about to reap his latest harvest of crest (from mcdonalds happy meal kit funnily enough)
Ready to put on his scrambled egg on toast.
People are so stupid they let the supermarkets control their lives ...
latest harvest of crest
toothpaste?
Doh.... Spelling fail....cress it is then.... And nice it was too
I ate loads of toothpaste once on a holiday in Switzerland. It gave me diarrhea for a couple of days.
The Cresta runs.
As much as I hate Tesco I hate Jimmy even more