Chicken breast with a huge carbon footprint..

Phew! "Not for EU" means they don't meet EU high standards!

It has nothing to do with standards. My milk has it on the carton.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62rnmr1lr8o#:~:text=The%20%22Not%20for%20EU%22%20labels,stop%20supplying%20products%20to%20NI.

Thank you petra that was my understanding

I only by British bred organic chicken. it is expensive, but I buy chicken thighs, never breast or legs and one chicken thigh per person is quite sufficient. Animal welfare comes first.

M0nica

I only by British bred organic chicken. it is expensive, but I buy chicken thighs, never breast or legs and one chicken thigh per person is quite sufficient. Animal welfare comes first.

I think thighs have much more flavour, though us piggies like two per person!

But organic chickn is very expensive and the cost of 2 per person, is eye watering.

Two thighs each for us as well Cossy! 😁

I don’t eat meat or fish problem solved

Monica- my husband could never be served less than 3 chicken thighs, no matter how many accompaniments. When he used to buy pork chops for me to cook they looked like Diplodoccus steaks!
It's all about metabolism I think, he's always eaten hugely & whippet thin. He doesn't have a sedentary lifestyle, but I think the main thing is his metabolism.

petra

It has nothing to do with standards. My milk has it on the carton.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62rnmr1lr8o#:~:text=The%20%22Not%20for%20EU%22%20labels,stop%20supplying%20products%20to%20NI.

Thanks Petra.

Never buy meat from supermarkets is the moral! Easy to say when you have a good butcher nearby though. I asked my butcher for free range chicken and enquired if they were given antibiotics. Only when they are poorly he said……

I prefer not to eat chicken if it is not free range, but I realise they have environmental problems too.

valdavi

Monica- my husband could never be served less than 3 chicken thighs, no matter how many accompaniments. When he used to buy pork chops for me to cook they looked like Diplodoccus steaks!
It's all about metabolism I think, he's always eaten hugely & whippet thin. He doesn't have a sedentary lifestyle, but I think the main thing is his metabolism.

I have consciously reduced the size of the standard portion of meat we use as a contribution towards reducing global warming. We know that in the futrure we must eat less meat and this is what I am doing.

Everyone has their own cutbacks they make to reduce green house gases. This is ours.

When we go out for meals DH, usuallyhas a steak, but not a large one.

Shinamae in future check you are buying British reared chicken.

Once you have seen how chickens are raised it puts you off eating them for life. Very cruel imo.

I do try to buy locally raised chicken but it's difficult to find and expensive. If none available I stick to free range label but appreciate the chickens are not roaming about on green fields but kept in barns with about 20,000 other birds with a bit space to walk about. Oh, they do have little openings in the sides of the dheds should they wish to go rambling but few birds do.

Of course! Now that we’ve left the EU we don’t have first world food standards any more …. Bad for us not knowing what we’re eating ~ but much worse for the animals whose horrible living conditions we are encouraging with our trade. Well done UK!

Whoever said the EU had first world food standards, and what are you saying that means?

The moral of this story is always check the label. If we won't buy it they won't stock it.

All that meat can't be good for you and your husband, pork has a lot of fat.

Wyllow3

Phew! "Not for EU" means they don't meet EU high standards!

Not for EU simply means that the product is meant to be marketed in the UK and should not be sold in the EU. It is not to do with standards.

petra

It has nothing to do with standards. My milk has it on the carton.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62rnmr1lr8o#:~:text=The%20%22Not%20for%20EU%22%20labels,stop%20supplying%20products%20to%20NI.

Worthwhile reading this explanation.

We only buy whole British chickens and roast them. We use any left over meat after the roast dinner in curries, risotto, chicken pies, sandwiches etc.

We are eating less meat and so I buy free range chicken which is often more than twice the price of the cheapest chicken. A friend, whose income is much larger than mine, still buys the cheapest chicken despite getting upset over a programme about factory farming.

When we lived in England I worked for about a year for a company that produced pork. The pigs were reared by farmers - some had sows and piglets which were then moved to other rearers to bring them on. The company employed 3 vets who came up with ways of preventing them from becoming bored (toys). Many were reared outdoors and pigloos were a common sight, often sows with their babies.

Although we see many cows and calves reared outdoors where I now live, sadly we don't see any out door pigs.