....What Jamie Oliver couldn't do .... H5N1 has!    I don't think there will be any establishment in the UK now DARING to have any turkey products on the menu..........thank heavens Christmas was in December - enough time for Bernard Matthews to recover :rolleyes:

OK.   So I'm being flippant over something that could be serious - but why, oh why, are we surprised when an outbreak like this hits 2,500 living creatures at one time?   And that over 150,000 living creatures (that are not yet in the"human food chain" - I quote - are to be destroyed at one time?    

Personally, I do think it is time that we re-think our methods of feeding the human race.   If we, in the prosperous west, insist on the lowest common denominator, and the cheapest food, who are we to gasp in horror at the way livestock is reared in the rest of the world?

I feel very unhappy for those whose livelihoods are likely to be taken from them in the hue and cry that will follow this outbreak, just like the foot & mouth that was identified not 10 miles from us in 2001, but surely this should be a wake-up cry for the whole food industry.

Margot 

Jersey already stopping imports of birds.....I hope this doesn't get out of hand with other livestock :rolleyes:

Will turkey now be advertised as being "Bootiflu"? ;) :D

>turkey now be advertised as being "Bootiflu"<?

eek::rolleyes::rolleyes: :D

You're absolutely right, though. We have no right to criticise other countries and claim the moral high ground over animal welfare when we keep chickens and turkeys and pigs crammed into tiny crates and cages indoors, not allowing them out of doors and seeing natural daylight, all for the sake of money. Is it really any different to the 'foreign habits' we vociferously condemn?

We have no right to criticise other countries and claim the moral high ground over animal welfare when we keep chickens and turkeys and pigs crammed into tiny crates and cages indoors, not allowing them out of doors and seeing natural dayligh
Ah but we are different,
1. They arnt as cute as animals abroad.........
2. The goverment says so!!!!!!
3. 'we' can get on our high horse about animal welfare abroad, but if we do that in the UK, our shopping bills might go up a bit. Now we cant have that, We might not be able to pay for out brand new Jag 
Lea :)