Chicken breast with a huge carbon footprint..

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.

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

Shinamae in future check you are buying British reared chicken.

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.

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

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……

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.

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 don’t eat meat or fish problem solved

Two thighs each for us as well Cossy! 😁

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

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!

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.

Thank you petra that was my understanding

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.

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