Comments on: UK Food Labelling – Animal Welfare Groups

By: Jack@Pumpkin Patch

Jack@Pumpkin Patch — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:41:50 +0000

There may be a part of the population that is willing to pay a higher price for organic food. A small part I may add. But it is very difficult to find organic food easily in most supermarkets.

By: matthew@food franchises

matthew@food franchises — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:32:15 +0000

Interesting point by Jann – I live on a farm and 3/4 of the way it is run I am happy with but it is such a shame to see the animals go in for fattening. they get placed in a large barn, and quite a lot of them go in. Are kept there for some 4 month before being carted off to the slaughter house. I do not think they are pumped full of drugs however.

By: Sally

Sally — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:38:46 +0000

What a great question Jann, worthy of it’s own post I think … shall go do some digging.

By: Sally

Sally — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:33:42 +0000

It’s really only through campaigns like Hugh’s that the general public will hear about it as the general media will pick it up, not because it concerns the public but because a tv star is involved … crazy world we have created (oh dear I seem to be in cynical mood today lol).

By: jann

jann — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:11:13 +0000

It has always bewildered me why it costs more to buy meat from stock reared in a healthy, natural environment as opposed to factory farmed intensley reared ones ….. in an intense environment the costs of keeping stock healthy enough to survive with the aid of antibiotics, temperature control and deep litter or sluicing / slurry tanks and drainage is not going to be cheap …. although I suppose the area required is far less …. so are we paying for the ‘ label’ of organic or naturally reared meat?

By: olly@ Glass Verandas

olly@ Glass Verandas — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:36:14 +0000

I think the main problem here is that the public is not aware of these loop holes that exist.

After watching Hugh’s chicken campaign I was shocked to see how chickens were treated and concerned about the meat that was produced from that kind of farming. I personally have changed the way I buy chicken both from a moral and health point of view. Without this program I would not have even thought about it in the first place.

After reading your post about food labeling I was shocked to realise that there were such huge loopholes that could allow someone to deliberately mislead you into believing your meat (or indeed any other product) was from somewhere that it actually never was from.

Now without this post I would have had no idea. So how can the general public even be aware to protest about it? More needs to be done, that is for sure!