safari chick Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 Signed - now 80+ signatures Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooks Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 Happy to sign... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 I have just been stuck in traffic, behind a lorry packed (and I mean packed) full of chickens in crates I was behind one the other day (there are everywhere down here) and it was covering my car in feathers *heart aches* and I did cry I should be used to it really - hubby is a chicken catcher - so he's a bloke who actually puts the chickens into crates. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chelsea Posted May 29, 2008 Share Posted May 29, 2008 Signed. Why should this just apply to the UK, we belong to the EU after all, why can't it be adopted Europe wide? agree!! we have to do everything Europe tells us why cant they do something we suggest for a change!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
..lay a little egg for me Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 As far as I'm aware "Ooops, word censored!"ody in the Uk has ever starved from eating meat a few less times a week. Exactly! Some people say "I can't afford free range". Then eat less meat! The UK tradition of having meat at every meal is ridiculous. It takes 9 tonnes of feed to produce 1 tonne of beef, we can't go on eating so much meat. It's not sustainable. I agree absolutely. Bet when you ask lots of those who say they can't afford free range find they can afford Nike trainers, flatscreen TVs, Sky+ etc etc. They just don't put a priority on good quality food. I always buy free range meat, but second-hand clothes, no Sky+, no Nintendo DS's etc etc. Of course, before someone objects, I have to say I do know that there are some who cannot afford the free range meat or the other goodies I mentioned. However, I feel these are relatively few compared with those who could afford free range meat if they chose. Eat less meat but better quality! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daj198 Posted May 30, 2008 Author Share Posted May 30, 2008 If my brother, who's a student, can buy free range, everyone should be able to. With regard to eggs, I think a group of us should save up eggs from our girls and hand them out in the supermarkets to those who are going to buy battery eggs. A fresh, free range egg could convert a lot of shoppers! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seagazer Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 I've just signed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abbey Road Girl Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Although I do understand and respect the practical objections to the petition, I will sign it out of solidarity with Biccie, Sweetie, Toffee and Truffle. As for the EU, it provides a "democratic" cover for government ministers agreeing things behind closed doors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abbey Road Girl Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Just in case anyone wonders why my name doesn't appear on the petition, I have been blocked and not for the first time. At least that's what I'd call it when I get the box with the proper heading but then the words "beta test" instead of the petition content. As has happened to me before, using the search facility (RSPCA freedom foods) got me hundreds of possibilities, but not an accurate match. Refining the search (RSPCA) got me 0 results. So to my computer, the petition does not exist. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ain't Nobody Here Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 I've signed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiggy Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 I've signed it, but I knwo what you mean about cheaper inports, I caused a bit of a riot in Somerfield when I asked for UK free range chicken and was told they only had European inports, OK to its free range but we need to support our own farmers the way the French do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abbey Road Girl Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 I'm pasting this from the No. 10 website: Your search for Make RSPCA freedom foods standards in All No.10 found 2448 hits. My search words (Make RSPCA freedom foods standards in all) were taken from the heading. Perhaps someone else would like to experiment. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daj198 Posted May 30, 2008 Author Share Posted May 30, 2008 Hi Abbey Road Girl Sorry to hear you're having problems finding the petition. The URL is http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/chookwelfare/ If that doesn't work, maybe you could PM your name, email and address to someone kind enough to sign it for you. Alternatively, you could use a friends PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Valkyrie Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 I think their web site was up the creek - I had 6 responses to adding my name on in spite of clicking on the confirmation link. I did spot my name on the petition and people after me. I was 50 something but it was on to 67 before it stopped - anyone else had that problem? Perhaps they didn't want anyone to put their names on really and its a Government ploy to meet with French standards - it'll be burning live sheep next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayflower Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 signed xxx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omletina Kyckling Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Signed...hubby too.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lewis Posted May 30, 2008 Share Posted May 30, 2008 Signed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abbey Road Girl Posted May 31, 2008 Share Posted May 31, 2008 Hi Abbey Road Girl Sorry to hear you're having problems finding the petition. The URL is http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/chookwelfare/ If that doesn't work, maybe you could PM your name, email and address to someone kind enough to sign it for you. Alternatively, you could use a friends PC. Hello Dom/daj! Tried this link and still came up with BETA TEST. Has anyone here had the same problem? I've come across this more than once for what i would describe as non-establishement petitions. (Are we surprised?) Well, I'm probably known to be a rabble-rouser (though I don't think of people as rabble). For those who witnessed the transport of chickens, I did the same in regard to a load of cattle. The expression of their eyes (just plain old temporary suffering!) are with me more than twenty years later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
safari chick Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 118 signatures to date! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BarbaraJ Posted June 1, 2008 Share Posted June 1, 2008 121 I agree with other posters, if you can't afford as much meat because its free range, eat less meat!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daj198 Posted October 22, 2008 Author Share Posted October 22, 2008 It's over 200 signatures Well done everyone! Now the government has to provide a response I wonder what the civil service will make of it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aaronmusgrove123 Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 would it be posible for a mod to make this a sticky to try and get as many people to sighn it o and get all your family to sighn it please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Speckled Hen Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 250 now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daj198 Posted October 22, 2008 Author Share Posted October 22, 2008 would it be posible for a mod to make this a sticky to try and get as many people to sighn it o and get all your family to sighn it please That would be great! Please Also, if anyone has an account of the Practical Poultry forum, could they please pass this on to all the members there? My email address is free (gmail) and so I cannot get an account Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plum Posted October 22, 2008 Share Posted October 22, 2008 done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
