Fuel Shortage Will Lead To Chicken Scarcity?

Oh my goodness, I googled the title and there was gransnet, after 3 news outlets, "reporting on shortages",

yes its in all the papers...

Watch what you say..

but yes, for some reason, as it has speculated a shortage in a number of items chicken has been selected eg in this Guardian pic.
www.theguardian.com/business/2026/apr/16/uk-possible-food-shortages-iran-war-co2

its "chicken, pork and fizzy drinks"

well no harm in a shortage of the latter...

My guess is huge firms will survive better like Kentucky Fried Chicken and so on I'm afraid.

Apparently CO2 is used in the slaughter of pigs and chickens. Who knew?!

Also bags of prepared salad and vegetables, people will have to wash and chop themselves 🙀

GrannyGravy13

Also bags of prepared salad and vegetables, people will have to wash and chop themselves 🙀

Oh no 🙈🙈

I don’t really have fizzy drinks (but the rest of the household do!) Pork I eat but not often, but chicken?? 😱😱

mae13

My word - so those ultra‐hygienic greasy fried chicken shops proliferating anywhere and everywhere and infesting town centres may go out of business?

Shame. Not.

They do provide work for shedloads of people though!

We have been known to eat the odd KFC - shock horror!

Cossy

I don’t really have fizzy drinks (but the rest of the household do!) Pork I eat but not often, but chicken?? 😱😱

When it comes to fizzy wine I will panic 🍾🍾🍾

Don't think Bollinger & Krug use CO2 for their fizz, GG13 so there's hope for you.

This will lead to panic buying and people stripping the shelves of chicken and pork as happened in the pandemic .
Irresponsible reporting.

Won’t go down well if there’s no beer for the World Cup!

valdali

Don't think Bollinger & Krug use CO2 for their fizz, GG13 so there's hope for you.

I am sure my staff will be ok on procurement 😹

GrannyGravy13

valdali

Don't think Bollinger & Krug use CO2 for their fizz, GG13 so there's hope for you.

I am sure my staff will be ok on procurement 😹

Should go well with rabbit and pheasant.

If there are shortages of anything that individuals use regularly they will be inconvenienced, and nobody's choices are morally superior to anyone else's.

Worst case scenario is that people start panic buying, so shortages are created and people start questioning one another's personal choices.

Grannybags

Apparently CO2 is used in the slaughter of pigs and chickens. Who knew?!

And the government has kept open a CO2 production plant that was due for closure for that very reason. Because, unlike the Conservatives closing down our gas storage facilities they are thinking ahead.

Jaxjacky

Won’t go down well if there’s no beer for the World Cup!

I can do without the beer and for that matter the World Cup!

I'm a sugar free fizzy drink drinker and I have already noticed a dearth of my usual drinks for sale.

Grannybags

Apparently CO2 is used in the slaughter of pigs and chickens. Who knew?!

Everyone should know.
If we eat factory food at least we should acknowlwdge the conditions these being are kept and killed under.

Wyllow3, I wonder what you meant: "Watch what you say.."
Why should anyone have to?

I did read in the news a couple of days ago that the govt was holding a mtg to prepare for food shortages. Several weeks ago I read about the food etc reserves/preparations for emergencies in other countries and how many weeks supplies they held. Many countries had huge reserves but the UK - zero! As usual caught on the back foot again

Good. The less chicken people eat the better. Factory-farmed chickens lead horrible short lives filled with suffering.

DH's paper was advising to stock up against shortages - that in itself creates shortages. Shame on them.

Having said that, if I got locked in for a month, I would not go hungry unless the electric went off.

LaCrepescule

Good. The less chicken people eat the better. Factory-farmed chickens lead horrible short lives filled with suffering.

Well-said!

Panic buying chicken and pork will make a nice change from panic buying toilet rolls!!!

LaCrepescule

Good. The less chicken people eat the better. Factory-farmed chickens lead horrible short lives filled with suffering.

Not all chicken is factory farmed and I for one am not going to say it's wrong to eat it! It's a bit like free range eggs and caged (if still available). People, like myself, buy them because it is what we can afford.

Also, please don't anyone give me the lecture of how free range eggs taste better because in all honesty, you can't tell the difference! I gave up keeping free range poultry a few years ago due to rising costs and avian flu and the eggs taste no different! The only difference is what pellets they get and if the manufacturer puts in marigolds for the yolk colour. I've been buying white shelled cheap eggs from Tesco and they have been some of the best! Rock hard shells, golden yolks, tight whites, even a week out of date.

This CO2 issue was also mentioned a few years ago when I had lambs ready for the chop as I asked the chap who was going to do them, if he was still able, or would I have to send them to auction, he said there was no issue that abbatoirs knew of. Lambs went to him, we're coming to the end of them.

I also buy a pig all cut up off him yearly! Can't beat belly pork!

I was shopping in tesco in Northern Ireland yesterday. I picked up frozen chicken pieces. My husband said check where its from. I couldn't believe it, CHINA. I put it back. We are a country with good farm produce. Why is tesco buying from China?