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Shame on you, Tesco
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/tesco-shareholders-reject-tv-chefs-chicken-welfare-call-855751.html
Tesco shareholders have recently voted against proposals to improve the living standards of chickens which are being used for their poultry products.
Even worse, Tesco panicked (about a loss of profits of course) when told about the proposals, so they resorted to scaring their shareholders in order to make them vote against it. As a result, only 10% of shareholders voted in favour of the proposal, way below the 75% required for it to be put into action.
Is all these people care about money? It makes me sick.
Tesco shareholders have recently voted against proposals to improve the living standards of chickens which are being used for their poultry products.
Even worse, Tesco panicked (about a loss of profits of course) when told about the proposals, so they resorted to scaring their shareholders in order to make them vote against it. As a result, only 10% of shareholders voted in favour of the proposal, way below the 75% required for it to be put into action.
Is all these people care about money? It makes me sick.
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Thats why i shop in either morrisons or sainsbury's
I neither eat chicken / meat, and I don't shop at Tesco's, so the shareholders won't make anything out of me.
IIRC Tesco offers a variety of chickens to suit all tastes and budgets.
he didnt he put it out of his misery because the chicken could barley walk get it RIGHT
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1029850/Tesco-condemned-claiming-Zimbabweans-dont-want-eat-food-export.html
It's not that it's just that I do sense an underlying social divide between those who don't buy battery chickens because they don't have to who look down on those who do because they cannot afford to buy free-range.
I'm just thinking that if it was suddenly discovered that M&S were using child labour to make it's clothes that there would be quite the moral outrage. I do think this anti-battery chicken thing is driven by the middle classes.
Now clealy the conditions these chickens are being kept in are appalling and I defy anyone not to feel moved and upset when the conditions are paraded infront of us on television as they have been in recent months.
However I can't help but feel that there are other, bigger moral outrages out there and if people dug a little deeper into a lot of the products that we buy whether they be 'Value' range at Tesco or 'Premium' range at Waitrose, which would leave us all with a bad taste in our mouths.
As it is, the stuff that Waitrose or M&S, Debenhams or John Lewis sell will for obvious reasons (for me anyone) will never be under the same microscope as what is sold at Tesco, Asda or Primark
The Chief Executive of Tesco is buddies with the government, don't you know.
(properly) Small Free Range chicken = £7.50
Battles must be chosen carefully. You'll never win if you try to win everything at the same time.
And I have a horrible feeling that Fearn Cotton might one day move in to the house next to mine and wake me up every morning with her 'rock chick' wannabe ****ing irritating antics, however, neither are likely to happen.
Long and short. If you're on benefits and its all you can do to feed your kids toast for breakfast which went past it's use by date on Thursday, you're hardly likely to think "Well, I'd like to feed my family, but I have to think of the chickens to!"
But I think this battle has been chosen carefully and I think it's an arrogant oversite that the argument of those who oppose the rearing (is that the right terminology?) of these battery chickens doesn't seem to acknowledge the fact that people buy them because they can't afford much else.
After all, how can it be more expensive to keep a free range chicken than to keep a battery chicken?
I was far more disappointed in Whittingstalls assumption that it would alright if we only had the option of free range chicken at its inflated prices as the number of poor in society are diminishing all the time. Is his head that far up his arse that he is unaware of the financial difficulties that many in this country are facing just now. He may think the poor are in a minority but its a rapidly growing minority.
Waiter: I can assure you Sir, all the meat we use in our restaurant is free range
Customer: Very good, I approve.
Waiter: So what will it be?
Customer: I'll have the foie gras.
Is that a serious question?
Because you can keep about 10,000 chickens in a secure barn, it's easy to feed them, it's easy to collect them for slaughter.
Keep 10,000 chickens in a field and it's a whole different ball game.