The Price Of Chicken

[madzone]

Battery chickens (the egg layers) do, so I figured the meat ones probably do too - not sure though.

Do they?
I thought feeding prophylactic antibiotics was illegal now.

 

[Fez909]

Whole chicken in Somerfield was £4 on Sunday gone. There's two breasts and a lot more meat besides for about half the price quoted in the OP. Don't buy jointed meat: profit!!

 

[8ball]

Hey, loads of conditions have been discovered without a forced control experiment, but I have never heard of a man actually getting soya oestrogen breasts, even though the theory is apparently there.

Hmmm - I've found some apparent evidence of a study by Googling a teeny bit but the people reporting it are horrible twats that I wouldn't give any credence to so I'll concede the point.

 

[subversplat]

Hmmm - I've found some apparent evidence of a study by Googling a teeny bit but the people reporting it are horrible twats that I wouldn't give any credence to so I'll concede the point.

You win on the cheapness though. I just bought some tofu today and it worked out at £5 a kilo

 

[8ball]

You win on the cheapness though. I just bought some tofu today and it worked out at £5 a kilo

What's chicken per kilo?

 

[subversplat]

I don't know I haven't bought any for years

 

[sojourner]

I don't know I haven't bought any for years

 

[madzone]

What's chicken per kilo?

On Tesco.com it's £2.38 p/kg

 

[8ball]

Do they?
I thought feeding prophylactic antibiotics was illegal now.

Tricky to find - I know a lot of restrictions were put on the use of these things in 1999 but I didn't think they were banned outright. I can find plenty of links to sites saying antibiotics are used for broiler chickens but it's hard to tell how old a website is - I would have thought it would have been taken down if it was no longer the base, though.

 

[madzone]

Tricky to find - I know a lot of restrictions were put on the use of these things in 1999 but I didn't think they were banned outright. I can find plenty of links to sites saying antibiotics are used for broiler chickens but it's hard to tell how old a website is - I would have thought it would have been taken down if it was no longer the base, though.

I just can't see that it's cost effective given the tiny profit margin in broiler chickens. Though chickens may be a special case because of the paranoia around salmonella

 

[subversplat]

On Tesco.com it's £2.38 p/kg

On Sainsbury's website it's £1.30

 

[madzone]

On Sainsbury's website it's £1.30

A kilo?

 

[8ball]

On Sainsbury's website it's £1.30

Cooked, is that?

 

[subversplat]

Frozen: http://www.sainsburys.com/groceries...51&NEW_NAVIGATOR<>level_5_id=1689949372021111

I hate to think what life those chicks have had