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Will Jamie Oliver Change our Relationship with Chickens?
I hope so. And I think he might just do it.
After his infamous Chicken Killing Spree episode screened in NZ, I have a heard a good few stories of people being so sickened by what he was doing on stage, that they are now a little sickened by their own eating habits.
What Jamie has done is what organisations like the S.P.C.A have failed to do for years, he took the factory farm and put it right in front of us. While we were eating our chicken dinners.
My mother encountered a British couple on the supermarket a few days after, who were complaining about the high cost of chicken in NZ compared to Australia. Supposedly, in Aussie, you can get a kilo of chicken for under $3.
I struggle to think how it is possible to raise an entire chicken on less that $6 and STILL make a profit. My mother pointed out this exact fact to them. Fortunately, it appears more and more people are doing the same. Putting pressure on themselves and others to put a little thought into where our food comes from, because when reality is shoved in your face, it is hard to avoid.
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August 31st, 2008 at 4:09 pm
We should be thinking a little more global and less selfish considering it is only 3 dollars.
Sure that amounts up over time, but it effects the lives of so many others it really isn’t that significant in the whole scheme of things.
September 3rd, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Yup.
People can be very small minded so long as they don’t have to be exposed ot the consequences of their actions.
September 8th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
I don’t really understand the people that get put off eating chicken by these antics.
Sure it’d be best if we were all hunter gathers and had never taken advantage of efficient modern farming methods. Unfortunately this is not the case and not only have we lost the ability to live in this fashion but it would be incompatible with the advancement of civilisation as we know it, the civilisation we hold so dare. Surely the meat factory is just the next step in this pattern of increasing efficiency in all walks of life.
I think in the end it is important to understand where your food is coming from but it is also important to consider what we are – Grocery Store Hunter Gathers, and what we’re hunting for – something that’s soft on our pocket and not too hard on the stomach. Sure Jamie can afford to pay £15 or £20 for his organic chicken that died only of heart attack and that’s fine, but he can also afford to drive a modified VW Comby van that has all the planet saving power of a 290kw Porsche Flat 6 fitted. I can’t. So I’ll keep driving my parents 35kw pink Honda Civic, or their Audi when I can get it, and I’ll keep buying my cheap chicken.