Letter from Hugh!

hi

I got my letter from hugh

I was in morrisons today and wanted to buy a free range chicken but they didnt have any on the shelves, they were stacked with wye valley which is the rspca approved barn chicken and the commercially produced chickens, I asked on e of the managers if they had any and he said they had sold out and that they cant get hold of any more!!! I said well its good people want them you will have to order more he said well no because we have a surplus of the other birds and its the price of free range to which I said well if you order more and the public want them the price will eventually come down, he didnt say anything to that.  I think it was a load of bs he told me, I suspect they wont order free range because of the cost, with attitudes like that no wonder its an uphill struggle, although tesco uttoxeter had a good supply of free range birds

Yes I had the letter...the large Tesco near us has a lot of "good" chicken products so it would be a very positive pictures if I took one...not only whole chicken but seperate legs, thighs and breasts...all free range!  Shall I risk it? Wonder what they would reply if I asked first...pointing out the positive immage?

hear hear trillium!

I know that the conditions birds are kept in is awful and we are lucky to be able to get/afford free range produce. However, supermarkets only sell what there is a demand for - they dont need to have and morals in it if consumers are still buying cheaper alternatives.

Im still very undecided on the whole free range thing - if i was super bothered by it then i would either be a vegetarian or raise free range chickens for the table myself - that is the only way to truly know where your food has come from and what it contains.

I asked on their forum as well and got no answer as of last time I checked it

It's all great to be enthusiastic about a cause, especially the plight of the poor battery chickens, but you also need to know your facts, which obviously HFW didn't when he put out that request for pix. Citizens may well send him pix in all sincerity, but what guarantee have they that the pix won't be turned against the stores in some form of public ridicule, or that the stores would interpret it this way as well? That's where the danger lies. You don't pinch the bull's nose and expect him not to react.