Support Hugh's Chicken Out Campaign

[Oola]

http://www.chickenout.tv/

Support Hugh's Chicken Out campaign and sign the petition at the URL above!

[sunflower]

signed up a couple of nights ago. They had the campaign on the rescue chicken site run by Jane in Devon. Practices WILL change, I'm totally convinced of it

[Katelb]

Signed and sealed Oola,and I wish it every success.

[jazzactivist]

I signed too. I really hope that these programmes and the campaign help to convert the masses. However, judging by the comments on some other more generic forums, many people are still using the poverty argument and resent being told to put the welfare of chickens before their personal finances. but if most people think about it and convert it will become unfashionable to buy intensively reared chicken.

Andy and I went to a newly opened restaurant on Friday evening that was beautiful and with beautifully presented food, but we could taste immediately that they had used supermarket produce. The couple who own it came to the table afterwards to ask what we thought of the food. We raised it with them, and they were shocked that we could taste the difference and admitted that, although the restaurant could fairly easily source local, organic, or free range produce they had just gone to Tesco for their ingredients! They seemed very thoughtful afterwards, so maybe it will help them with the future of their restaurant.

[Crocus]

I also signed!

[Oola]

Good stuff everyone. Good on you for bringing it up jazz, it certainly would be food for thought (boom boom) for them. But seriously, I'm not that confident that I could breach the subject I think, I worry that I might offend people too much. Which is just silly really - so I think in future I'll be asking more. I think with Rich, when we go out he doesn't bother to eat chicken because he says if he asks whether it's free range, he knows that the answer will be no. But I guess now that if more people bring it up, it might encourage restaurants and cafes to change their practices.

If anyone could forward the URL to friends and family that might sign up, that would be great.

[Oola]

NB: sunflower I too am feeling that the tide is turning....I guess it's just that people like us have known about it for years and forget how shocking it must be to those that weren't always in the know. That's why I think it's so important that the likes of Jaime and Hugh keep on with these sorts of campaigns. The vast majority of comments that I've read are in favour of change, even those on low incomes.

[Healing Hands]

All signed up about two days ago. I had an interesting conversation with my local vicar in my local pub on Saturday evening. We were all talking about the programme and I was getting everyone views on it. My vicar who is a lovely man in his middle 30's and has two daughters, he said that on his wage he can only afford to buy the cheaper chickens, which I was quite amazed, being a man of the cloth. so I was telling him how much nicer and how you can still buy a good free range chicken at just a few pence and that you can still make a chicken last a few days. I was on a losing battle, even being a man of the cloth was saying he could not afford it! So if we cannot get a vicar to change how do we change the rest of the public to change?

[Crocus]

:)Hi HH! It perhaps depends on how informed the vicar is on these kind of matters,how strong he is as a person and the influence he might have on his congregation, I think. If the people were to look upon him as a leader, so to speak, and he would perhaps speak out on this particular matter, the village people might follow his example?:)

[Oola]

I would have thought as a man of the cloth he would have respect for all of God's creatures?

[Crocus]

Yes I agree - perhaps he is not as informed as one would hope he would be regarding this particular campaign.

[Healing Hands]

Well yes Oola, I would too that was why I was so amazed about what he said, in fact a little upset with him. He is a nice man and his wife and I know Crocus that he and his wife are well informed as they too watch the programme! So if he was to say to his congregation that he does not mind eating chickens that see and that they do not live in humane conditions that the congregation would follow! I do hope not.

[Crocus]

Oh goodness, I wasn't aware that he watched the programme. He's got a bit of thinking to do then.