Chicken Lidl

[21TonyK]

Just wondering if this is a one-off in my local Lidl.

Someone placed A4 (what look like handwritten but must be photocopied) notes amongst the chickens in the chiller asking people to consider where it comes from, conditions etc etc

Nice sentiment. Google says nothing other than the usual stuff about Lidl and chickens.

Just wondering if this is a well meaning local thing or if others have seen it?

[leef44]

It could be in response to a recent Which? magazine survey which said that the source of some of their products and also for Aldi, were a bit vague.

[ambuletz]

leef44 said:

It could be in response to a recent Which? magazine survey which said that the source of some of their products and also for Aldi, were a bit vague.

Some googling suggests that the welfare standards of LIDL chicken about a month ago weren't very good, with some having hock burns.

As for ALDI, their frozen munch box has chicken that's come from china. (it says so on the packaging as I've eaten it)

[andyA700]

I am a bit conflicted on this, because we are going through a massive cost of living crisis, where a sizeable proportion of the country are having to make really tough decisions on food, heating, council tax (no room for manouvre there), so many will inevitably be shopping at the best value outlets, wherever they may be.
I am concerned about animal welfare and we eat free range eggs (Burford Brown), but the price of free range chicken has gone through the roof. We no longer buy a whole chicken (apart from Christmas and Easter) because there are only two of us, so we buy thigh filletes or free range legs. I think a lot of people are going to struggle to buy free range chickens.

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsb...

[RichFN2]

I always check on the packet, and only buy chicken from Moy Park. They supply chicken to all major supermarkets including Lidl and Aldi but it doesn't mean all the chicken will be from them.

Some of our customers are in the food industry, including Moy Park and other poultry meat suppliers. Moy Park is the company with the best conditions etc according to various colleagues that have been to all of them.

[Silvanus]

If anyone is remotely concerned about animal welfare, chicken would be down the list. Even the most pampered of poultry is slaughtered at 3 months old, 7 weeks for cheapies. Not much of a life for an animal that can live for 10 years or more.

I'm not a vegetarian but I think we've got very used to cheap meat and we consume far more meat than we really need too.

[21TonyK]

andyA700 said:

I think a lot of people are going to struggle to buy free range chickens.

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsb...

I think you are right. I've tried a reasonable selection of UK supermarket offerings and a few imported options from trade suppliers. However, in this instance I bought 3 large chickens from Lidl for less than the one linked from Sainsburys. In fact, with 10% off 3 extra large chickens from Lidl were only fractionally more than a single small free range chicken.

And... as has been highlighted. Free range really only means a few differences in conditions and a different breed from the bogo cobb and ross. Maybe another couple of weeks to add the weight needed.

Doesn't alter the fact chicken is probably the most abused animal we farm.

[Mobile Chicane]

I eat less and less meat these days.

The quality is shiite - everywhere. Even at the so-called 'premium' supermarkets.

[Crafty_]

Supermarket is the last place to buy meat. There are plenty of options including direct from farmers nowadays.

Granted, chicken tends not to be farmed so much here, the chicken my local butcher sells is far better than anything I've seen in any supermarket, its imported from the Netherlands, but the rest of his produce is from local(ish) farms.

[Jordie Barretts sock]

There is nothing wrong with supermarket meat.

Every time meat is discussed on here, supermarket meat gets slated with absolutely no justification.

[Silvanus]

Jordie Barretts sock said:

There is nothing wrong with supermarket meat.

Every time meat is discussed on here, supermarket meat gets slated with absolutely no justification.

Some supermarket meat is great, as good as anywhere. Some is absolutely terrible. There is good and bad everywhere.

[ambuletz]

Jordie Barretts sock said:

There is nothing wrong with supermarket meat.

Every time meat is discussed on here, supermarket meat gets slated with absolutely no justification.

problem these people don't seem to understand that
- not everyone lives near a farm
- local butchers still get their meat from largely the same suppliers
- the people who say these comments have a higher income and can't seem to understand that not everyone is the same

basically powerfully built company directors coming in here saying 'oh no i won't shop in a supermarket'

[Crafty_]

ambuletz said:

problem these people don't seem to understand that
- not everyone lives near a farm
- local butchers still get their meat from largely the same suppliers
- the people who say these comments have a higher income and can't seem to understand that not everyone is the same

basically powerfully built company directors coming in here saying 'oh no i won't shop in a supermarket'

You don't need to live near a farm, you can order meat mail order, some is even delivered fresh (i.e. not frozen).

My local butcher own their own farm, but also buy from other local farms and displays a list of the farms they've bought from. It is not from the same suppliers.

Its nothing to do with stupid, tired tropes but buying better quality produce.

Saying "oh its only riich powerfully built directors coming here saying xyz" whilst claiming all meat is from the same suppliers is rather naive.

[FredericRobinson]

RichFN2 said:

I always check on the packet, and only buy chicken from Moy Park. They supply chicken to all major supermarkets including Lidl and Aldi but it doesn't mean all the chicken will be from them.

Some of our customers are in the food industry, including Moy Park and other poultry meat suppliers. Moy Park is the company with the best conditions etc according to various colleagues that have been to all of them.

Processing plants maybe, certainly over their main competitor, farms I doubt

[ninepoint2]

Silvanus said:

Some supermarket meat is great, as good as anywhere. Some is absolutely terrible. There is good and bad everywhere.

Think it's down to yer Donald really, we had two grass fed Sirloin steaks tonight from Lidl, one was excellent the other not so

[Oliver Hardy]

There was a report about a year ago saying Lidl, Iceland and Asda are selling Polish chickens which are routinely fed antibiotics

[ambuletz]

Oliver Hardy said:

There was a report about a year ago saying Lidl, Iceland and Asda are selling Polish chickens which are routinely fed antibiotics

there was a time when the supermarkets all sold basic/value range frozen chicken that came from brazil and was known to be injected with brine to increase the weight (they would argue that it makes it more stable).

[Jordie Barretts sock]

Oliver Hardy said:

There was a report about a year ago saying Lidl, Iceland and Asda are selling Polish chickens which are routinely fed antibiotics

My wife's free range chickens get antibiotics. What's your point?

[Alickadoo]

andyA700 said:

I am a bit conflicted on this, because we are going through a massive cost of living crisis, where a sizeable proportion of the country are having to make really tough decisions on food, heating, council tax (no room for manouvre there), so many will inevitably be shopping at the best value outlets, wherever they may be.
I am concerned about animal welfare and we eat free range eggs (Burford Brown), but the price of free range chicken has gone through the roof. We no longer buy a whole chicken (apart from Christmas and Easter) because there are only two of us, so we buy thigh filletes or free range legs. I think a lot of people are going to struggle to buy free range chickens.

https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsb...

Who is "we"?

You, your family, your neighbours, the nation?

[andyA700]

Oliver Hardy said:

There was a report about a year ago saying Lidl, Iceland and Asda are selling Polish chickens which are routinely fed antibiotics

I was sceptical of this until I read these articles. This is very alarming and the person(s) who allow this s**t need to be put in prison. Why the hell are we importing staple food items from Poland?

https://www.saveourantibiotics.org/news/news/three...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/2...

https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/eggs-and-poultry/fsa-w...