“We don’t give a shit about chickens,” say Tesco shareholders, “now give us all your money!”
It shouldn’t really come as a surprise that Tesco shareholders yesterday chose to reject Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s call for the company to adopt new and compassionate standards for rearing birds. They ignored the moral and ethical arguments in favour of what they presumably thought was the best way to keep the money rolling in. The fact that less than 10 per cent of the shareholders voted in favour of change simply goes to show that they’re a callous bunch of bastards who care about very little other than money. And let’s face it—Tesco does make them an awful lot of money, at least for the time being. But times change, and anyone with a conscience should now boycott the store chain and shop elsewhere.
tags: animal cruelty, broiler hens, chickens, corporate greed, diet, excuses, fat, food, obesity, shareholders, supermarkets, TescoVegetarian? “I make you chicken soup without chicken,” says restaurant manager
I had a stand-up row of the highest magnitude yesterday with the manager of restaurant called Hemingways in Skipton. It was my second and last visit to the venue, which has an outdated appearance and seems predominantly frequented by the over-65s. But I was there because my parents, who are both well past the age of 65, and one of my sisters, who isn’t 65, wanted to eat there, remembering our first visit, about three months ago, when we had all enjoyed a lovely meal.
tags: argument, cities, complaints, customer service, dissatisfaction, food, old-fashioned, outdated, provinces, provincial, restaurants, suburban, towns, urban, vegetarianismMRSA in the food chain - another gift from the intensive farming industry?
Not long after it was revealed that Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) want to start feeding pig remains to our poultry, comes the news that a variant of MRSA may have entered the human food chain. It’s both ironic and tragic that the ST398 strain is found in factory-farmed pigs in the Netherlands. None of the three humans in three separate UK hospitals had a close association with farm animals.
Most cases of the ST398 strain have been spread to people in close contact with animals such as farmers, vets and abattoir workers. Those who handle and prepare food can be infected if the bacteria gets onto their hands and enters a cut or wound, even microscopic tears in the skin.
tags: antibiotics, chickens, cows, DEFRA, food, FSA, intensive farming, meat, MRSA, pigs
