Tescowatch (an occasional series)

[ramtops]

From The Independent comes the story that Tesco have reduced the price of a whole chicken to £1.99.

[...]in a move that critics warned would heap financial pressure on the poultry industry and make it harder to the improve welfare of factory-farmed animals.

Wonderful.

Comments

[blackberry44.livejournal.com]

Well, *I* shan't be buying any of it. I'd sooner go without.

[lostcarpark.livejournal.com]

Mmmm Chicken!

[purple-peril.livejournal.com]

That we can buy an animal's life for less than £2 makes me want to vomit.

I watched the Jamie Oliver chicken thing recently, and the only thing that came as a surprise was the mere pennies that farmers are paid per chicken. And we wonder why the poor things are bred in misery. Gah.

[spride.livejournal.com]

Important issues of animal welfare aside, I recoil at the idea that an animal's life is now worth less than two quid.