organic free-range

wafflycat · Post by **wafflycat** » 05 Feb 2008, 10:54

Had an organic free-range chicken last night. It turned out to be the biggest boned, lowest meat content bird I've had for a long time. Only two meals out of this one rather than three. Bah!

Digressing - I've found that the time I'm most likely to be able to buy an organic and/or free-range bird from a supermarket seems to be late morning on a Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday. Thursdays, Fridays & weekends are proving to be impossible days to get such a bird.

Citrine · Post by **Citrine** » 05 Feb 2008, 12:02

I agree, we've been finding it difficult too! We've been going without and been having organic pork chops instead!! )c+

seahorse · Post by **seahorse** » 06 Feb 2008, 18:57

Our co op had a big sign outside the door today with a picture of lovely free range chickens, they only have free range eggs now. :-D

Citrine · Post by **Citrine** » 06 Feb 2008, 21:49

Hoorah for the Co-op!! (which, incidentally, spells 'coop' without the thingy in the middle!!! )j;

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Post by **Richard** » 07 Feb 2008, 00:37

It's a problem with free range sometimes.

The indoor farmed birds are so overfed and watery that there's usually more meat on them, but as said, watery meat.

The Supermarkets have reallt got to get their act together, they must have seen it coming.

I sometimes suspect that running out means they think that many will simply buy the cheap option and things may return to how it was before.
They could be seeing it as just a whim, a fashion which will go away.

But, we're all doing a pretty good job of avoiding that situation!

Richard

Post by **wendy** » 07 Feb 2008, 09:30

My sentiment entirely Richard, on the overfed birds and the supermarkets.
Wendy

TassieDev · Post by **TassieDev** » 10 Feb 2008, 17:27

i havent really eaten non-free range chicken (as i used to be vegetarian before they were available) so i cant directly compare BUT i did notice a bird we got from our neighbour which was VERY free ranging was as you describe, but a LOT more flavour than a supermarket free-range (not organic) chicken. it actually tasted 'chickeny' rather than tasting of not a lot really, which to me the free-range supermarket chickens taste.

Makes me suspicious as to how much ranging those supermarket ones do! )de:

AnnaB · Post by **AnnaB** » 10 Feb 2008, 20:13

A lot of the birds are large as they have had water pumped into the flesh to increase the weight.

It has also been reported that pork has been injected into chicken to again increase weight. I dread to think about the people who do not eat pork and have unknowingly ate it via chicken.