Be a bit weird if everything was getting more and more expensive except for chicken
My in laws are poultry farmers in Europe and they’re using all of their land, our land, family members land and neighbors land to plant chicken feed (corn, wheat and barley) because feed has gotten so expensive due to the war in Ukraine. It’s literally tripled.
Plus all of their bills have gone up, water electrically etc. Their profits have disintegrated. To keep the same profit margins they had before the war, the cost of their produce would have to triple/quadruple.
I’m going over in October to help with the harvest and if we don’t get a good yield they’re probably calling it quits on the business altogether.
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No mention of bird flu?
Maybe an unpopular opinion, and I realise the implication that price rises will unfairly affect the poorest in society but the fact is we eat too much meat these days because intensive farming has made it cheap. When I was a kid meat was the centrepiece of every meal but you didn’t get much of it, a stew that fed a family of 6 for 2 days would use a pound of meat, you were lucky to get 2 chunks of meat per portion, but it was the best bit amid a plate full of veg, and we weren’t a particularly poor family. Similarly a medium sized chicken fed all of us with sandwiches for everyone’s lunch the following day and soup from the carcass for tea. We would buy Ox Tongue, brawn, corned beef and beef paste for lunches because it was cheap, steak pie was not a thing, steak and kidney was, and in turn we used the full animal which surely is better .
>It’s because the feed is often made up of wheat or soya, a by-product of sunflower oil
Soybeans and sunflowers are completely different plants.
I’m no vegan and this will sound insensitive but you shouldnt be able to buy a whole chicken for £3.
We’re so used to almost constant premium meat. People squirm at cheaper cuts that we’ve used for decades.
Is it just me or does chicken these days not taste as chickeny as it used to?
Tesco’s are selling whole chickens for £1 a 1lb. If the producer kept all of that then it’s still stupidly cheap.
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Be a bit weird if everything was getting more and more expensive except for chicken
My in laws are poultry farmers in Europe and they’re using all of their land, our land, family members land and neighbors land to plant chicken feed (corn, wheat and barley) because feed has gotten so expensive due to the war in Ukraine. It’s literally tripled.
Plus all of their bills have gone up, water electrically etc. Their profits have disintegrated. To keep the same profit margins they had before the war, the cost of their produce would have to triple/quadruple.
I’m going over in October to help with the harvest and if we don’t get a good yield they’re probably calling it quits on the business altogether.
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No mention of bird flu?
Maybe an unpopular opinion, and I realise the implication that price rises will unfairly affect the poorest in society but the fact is we eat too much meat these days because intensive farming has made it cheap. When I was a kid meat was the centrepiece of every meal but you didn’t get much of it, a stew that fed a family of 6 for 2 days would use a pound of meat, you were lucky to get 2 chunks of meat per portion, but it was the best bit amid a plate full of veg, and we weren’t a particularly poor family. Similarly a medium sized chicken fed all of us with sandwiches for everyone’s lunch the following day and soup from the carcass for tea. We would buy Ox Tongue, brawn, corned beef and beef paste for lunches because it was cheap, steak pie was not a thing, steak and kidney was, and in turn we used the full animal which surely is better .
>It’s because the feed is often made up of wheat or soya, a by-product of sunflower oil
Soybeans and sunflowers are completely different plants.
I’m no vegan and this will sound insensitive but you shouldnt be able to buy a whole chicken for £3.
We’re so used to almost constant premium meat. People squirm at cheaper cuts that we’ve used for decades.
Is it just me or does chicken these days not taste as chickeny as it used to?
Tesco’s are selling whole chickens for £1 a 1lb. If the producer kept all of that then it’s still stupidly cheap.
https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/292277755