General Chat

Nothing would surprise me about BM! Intensive poultry farming is a ghastly business - and why anyone would want to eat the tasteless, pale result is beyond me. Yes it might be cheap, but the 'real' cost is much, much greater.

Well if it brings the price down on chickens and turkeys I will be stacking the chest freezer up while the goings good. Its like the Egg scare and the Beef scare and I still carried on eating them. Sorry I wont be giving them up.

The virus has been found in another of the sheds. I don't actually eat chicken or turkey, unless I have seen them running around in the fresh air!!! As for the BM conglomerate declaring that their 'Bio precations' were up to scratch, if their employees can play baseball with live chickens, who's to say they can't walk from one shed to another, or touch one lot of dead chicken with dirty hands??? I hope this stops this awful factory farming and leads to the re-introduction of 'proper' chickens, with taste!! On the subject of factory farming, did you see the turkey's reaction when the shed doors were opened? Instead of rushing out like most animals would, they (apart from a handful) actually backed in!! I am glad they've been culled, they have been saved a short life of misery. maggie

I am not worried about bird flu per se. What does concern me is that it is becoming increasingly clear that Bernard Matthew's practices are far from ideal - or why else would all this have happened. I don't want to be eating produce from any company that is lax on controls and probably even more lax on welfare. BM you are off my shopping list - permananently. Angela

Jacqueline 'grown slower' means they have not been pumped full of growth promoting hormones, as so many farm animals are. I'm a vegetarian of about 35 years standing and seeing the conditions in which those poor birds are reared only serves to confirm my decision. Pat

It is a joke 'grown slower' means nothing at all. Even so called 'free range' birds are factory farmed. It is just that they keep the door open in case any want to wander outside. Personally I don't particularly like poultry at the best of times, and the manner in which they are bred, reared and then slaughtered these days, I find disgusting. The alternative though is to pay something like 5 times as much as we do today.

thank-you every-one, some reasuring and interesting comments i agree with the point made regarding this government though, i just would'nt trust them myself. cheer's peep's you've been fab congratulations tracy.

i been sneezing all day and i had chicken wrapped in bacon for tea yesterday

Does anyone know symptoms of bird flu? only I keep feeling a bit peckish....ha,ha. Sorry couldn't resist that joke - Carol

Gwen i feel there is no need for panick.....lets just say bernard matthews products are off the menuxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx((((:

' is sneezing the first symptom of bird flu'lol gwen

oh no i cooked BM mini kievs tonight, come to think of it i cooked chicken pops too,

The flu out break does not bother me too much.But I will not buy Bernard Matthew turkeys again because of how they are reared. I never thought that so many could be kept in one building. Sheila

last saturday i bought a chicken to cook for sunday dinnert,that same evening whilst pre- heating the oven for a pie. the oven blew up, something to do with the fan i think is that an OMEN or what.was i not supposed to eat that chicken.

If you want to see the state of modern intensive poultry farming take a look at the videos on the CIWF site - it shows chickens in Germany but it's much the same elsewhere unfortunately.