A Christmas Thought for Turkeys

As it’s the Christmas season and we get ready to celebrate with friends and families on the big day. Don’t’ forget Christmas is for Turkeys too, so why not try a free-range bird this year?

This blog is about food, but sometimes we forget about how that food arrives on out plate in the first place.

Like most people in the world I too have to budget, but why can’t you save money in other ways and stop buying mass-produced food from animals that have been treated inhumanly. We all know about battery hens, ducks that have never been for a swim and pigs kept indoors in confined spaces. I Think we juist chose to ignore it when we buy meat.

I'm a meat eater, I'm not proud of the fact, but its true. As I have pets, I treat them with respect and I want my food to have had as good a life as possible.

The question is what can we do to make this happen?

Well for a start, buy more organic and free range produce. Look out for free range pork, chicken, and turkeys. Find that extra money you spend somewhere else in your budget. Only when we buy free range goods will supermarkets demand that their producers to do it that way.

Years ago when organic produce first hit the shops the supermarkets only stocked a few items. Only ‘buyer power’ can change the way we eat. Its starting to happen but there is a long way to go.

Spend a little more on the quality of animal produce and a little less on other goods.

Everyone including animals deserve respect in life as well as death.

J