Bernard Matthews Bird Flu link to Hungry

nightshade · #1 (**permalink**) 09-02-2007, 12:53 PM

The Government inspectors have decided that the farm where the
Turkeys were culled had imported materials from Hungry (from their
poultry industry) is it possible that now that wild birds could get it
Importing from countries that have had bird flu should surely be
banned or at the very least subjected to rigourous testing ABOVE
AND BEYOND the normal quality assurance tests
Meat products are being withdrawn from shops possibly imports from
Hungry

Jon · #2 (**permalink**) 09-02-2007, 01:53 PM

I am not hungry for food from Hungary any more! Jon

mrs fish · #3 (**permalink**) 10-02-2007, 06:51 AM

This has shown us what goes on behind the scenes in the poultry industry

I have heard the birds are even fed ground up parts and feathers of other birds

It's all about the money

The good thing to come out of this will be people won't be eating so much poultry so less birds will have to live the awful life in a factory farm.

Gill Catton · #4 (**permalink**) 10-02-2007, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by mrs fish

This has shown us what goes on behind the scenes in the poultry industry

I have heard the birds are even fed ground up parts and feathers of other birds

It's all about the money

The good thing to come out of this will be people won't be eating so much poultry so less birds will have to live the awful life in a factory farm.

Thing is not eating so much poultry doesn't support those who are producing poultry in a free range organic fashion. Hope those guys (and gals) don't suffer too much through this....

Just makes me look forward to the time when I have a big enough garden and enough time to keep my own chickens that can live happy chicken lives, doing chickeny things all day everyday and I can have guilt free eggs and maybe if I'm brave the occasional older but more flavoursome bird on the table............

smartie · #5 (**permalink**) 10-02-2007, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Gill Catton

Thing is not eating so much poultry doesn't support those who are producing poultry in a free range organic fashion. Hope those guys (and gals) don't suffer too much through this....

Yes, it would be tragic if the effect of this is that the people who are trying to do it right, and produce tasty, healthy poultry that has had a good, if short, life, find themselves forced to bring their birds indoors or are pushed out of business altogether by the antics of the cheap food merchants. When will the British public wake up to the fact that there is a big difference between good food and cheap food?

Gill Catton · #6 (**permalink**) 10-02-2007, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by smartie

Yes, it would be tragic if the effect of this is that the people who are trying to do it right, and produce tasty, healthy poultry that has had a good, if short, life, find themselves forced to bring their birds indoors or are pushed out of business altogether by the antics of the cheap food merchants. When will the British public wake up to the fact that there is a big difference between good food and cheap food?

Absolutely, I'd much rather buy an expensive chicken and make it stretch further into roast then perhaps stirfry/ casserole and soup for most of the week knowing it had a reasonable (like you said - if short) life.

badgerwatcher · #7 (**permalink**) 10-02-2007, 11:33 AM

Yet again, we are reminded that our illusion of meat being handled responsibly and carefully is misplaced. Did I hear correctly that much of the meat was even being stored outside, or did I imagine that bit? And surely feeding them waste products from others of their own kind was what created the Bovine spongiform encephalopothy prione in cattle? (Apologies for probable spelling errors!)
Another point in favour of organic, happy chickens is they taste much better! After a holiday in France, where the amazing flavour of soup I made from the bones of a chicken we'd bought reminded me of childhood flavours, I switched to organic.
And in a society that is prepared to pay £13.50 for an imported valentine's day rose, why do we object to paying more for food produced in more acceptable ways?

Kayleigh · #8 (**permalink**) 10-02-2007, 05:43 PM

I hope all the decent poultery producers sue Matthews for this irresonsible act. I am fuming at what he has done.

He has put our hole wildlife in jeperdy. And may damage the decent free range farmers for years to come. I have always bought free range turkeys as I know they have had a decent life. They say there is contaminated food in the food chain. I have stopped buying chicken fron supermarkets as you cant trust where they come from and it looks like Tesco gets uncooked chicken from Matthews.

nightshade · #9 (**permalink**) 10-02-2007, 05:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Gill Catton

Absolutely, I'd much rather buy an expensive chicken and make it stretch further into roast then perhaps stirfry/ casserole and soup for most of the week knowing it had a reasonable (like you said - if short) life.

"and make it stretch further" is this a genetic modification thing?

I have always loved chickens from my childhood, that thing they do with
their beady eyes as they rangefind for a quick accurate peck at some
morsel (usually a grasshopper in the old days)
They are so endearingly stupid,I could watch them all day(and have)

nightshade · #10 (**permalink**) 10-02-2007, 06:01 PM

It would be interesting to find out just where our supermarket
poultry comes from China was mentioned for chicken ,any others?

Gill Catton · #11 (**permalink**) 10-02-2007, 06:35 PM

I think Thailand produces a lot of chicken in worse conditions than our battery farming, I think we get that only in cooked chicken products though. It's a sad truth but I think when the ban on battery farming in the UK finally comes in, many will just shift their demand to the east. Sadly the welfare and the food miles will be worse

Garden Carpet · #12 (**permalink**) 10-02-2007, 07:52 PM

I have several pieces of chicken and turkey in my freezer... I think i am going to bin them. Have slowly been going off them anyway... which is why they are in the freezer still. After reading all the above and other items i think i will be better off without them. Cant even feed them to the doggies.. one is allergic to it. I dont buy BM but if one does it no doubt others do too.
jaki

Kayleigh · #13 (**permalink**) 10-02-2007, 08:01 PM

Whats going to happen if all this contaminated meat is in landfill. I may be over reacting but its somthing to think about. What will happen if people who have eaten BMs product start to be ill because he has not come clean. Its been two weeks now and we are no closer to knowing the truth. Its only a matter of time before we know the full scale of this imbecels mistakes he should be deported to Hungary.