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Fee
Joined: 21 Mar 2005 Posts: 15922 Location: Earth
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Posted: Tue May 15, 07 1:44 pm Post subject: Price of Chicken in Supermarkets |
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I've noticed that the price of free range chicken in supermarkets seems to have sky-rocketed lately. Sainsbury's want �9.70 for 4 free range organic chicken breasts and ASDA wasn't much less.
I buy most of our meat from our local butcher, so haven't noticed a gradual increase, but was gobsmacked and quite angry when I saw how much they were asking.
We consciously don't buy anything other than free-range chicken, and we're all being encouraged to, yet the supermarkets have the cheak to charge such prices. We don't mind paying extra for well-treated meat, but twice the price is scandalous.
We walked away from the entire meat section in disgust, and won't be going back in a hurry.
What's worrying is that anything 'eco', 'ethical' or 'green' seems to be having it's price ramped up in the supermarkets. How on Earth can low-income families be expected to pay these prices? They simply can't.
Sorry, had to have a rant.
I might have gone up to the butcher counter and had a bit of a moan too, then as I was in a ranty mood by then, asked him what was meant by 'traditionally reared meat' (which is says on loads of the labels on the meat counter), and shock horror, he didn't have a clue what I was even talking about, never mind what it meant! |
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