RSPCA

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• animalrspca February 10, 2010 at 1:52 p.m.

  It may affect it slightly but whatever the price we should be happy that its higher welfare

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• Thumper February 5, 2010 at 12:31 p.m.

  It probably does put a lot of people off. This isn't an issue I can relate to personally as I've never purchased meat myself, but I have plenty of friends and family members who try to be careful with where their meat comes from. The way things are going at the moment, people are generally going for the cheap options with most of their food, merely because they can afford it. Unfortunately, there are a lot of people out there who are interested in buying the higher welfare stuff, and aren't able to.

  Another issue is often variety, especially with my college friends. Not only is money and issue at college, but we're restricted to where we can buy our meals from and it's not always clear where the food comes from. For this reason I didn't buy any sandwiches with egg in during my time at college; I was concerned that the ingredients may have been fertilized. (The eggs I get when living at home are from someone I know who owns only hens, meaning they are never fertilized)

  To answer the original question though, I think that yes, cost is most likely the biggest problem. Especially with the credit crunch and money crisis going on at the moment.

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• andrewholland January 13, 2010 at 2:38 a.m.

  Something I'm constantly striving towards is being able to buy Organic/Free Range/Higher welfare foods exclusively but as we all know, the extra money involved in this can sometimes be a problem. I just think it's a shame that if more people realised the benefits and implications of purchasing Higher welfare foods and started doing so then the price would be able to decrease, becoming level with more economic mass produced produce thus eradicating the need for it, and the conditions that come with it.

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• dpinn1 October 4, 2009 at 7:26 p.m.

  I think some people don't just have the money to buy free range food sometimes. However i feel a few more pennys can make a difference to the welfare of animals. But I think its defiently worth it to buy organic food if you can, but again that opertunity isn't always availible.

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• tattooedgirlie September 21, 2009 at 12:46 a.m.

  Dear fellow animal friends!
  PETA NEEDS YOU!!
  Come participate in a fun, one-of-a-kind demonstration on Saturday, 3 October, to urge Selfridges to stop selling foie gras
  To create foie gras - French for "fatty
  liver" - up to 2 kgs of a mixture of grain, maize and fat is pumped into
  the stomachs of ducks and geese through a pipe two or three times a day for
  three weeks. As the birds' livers become diseased and expand to up to 10 times
  their normal size, the animals become sick, and many are unable to move. The
  pipes sometimes puncture the birds' throats, which may cause them to bleed to
  death.
  Foie gras production is banned in the UK and more
  than a dozen other countries. More than 60 per cent of Britons believe that foie
  gras sales should also be banned. Not one supermarket will sell foie gras in
  the UK. Foie gras has also been pulled from the shelves of House of Fraser,
  Prince Charles has banned it from Royal menus and the Pope has denounced it as
  cruel.
  We'd like to make this demonstration as
  large and noticeable as possible. Won't you please join?
  The demonstration will take place outside Selfridges at 400 Oxford Street at 11 am and last for 30 minutes. However, we will meet in a location close to (but not in front of) Selfridges at 9:45 am sharp to talk through the event.
  Our goal is to get 100 compassionate people out for this eye-catching demonstration. Each participant will be given a duck mask to represent the ducks and geese who are used to make the fois gras sold at Selfridges. Some people will also hold signs, while others will distribute leaflets.
  It's important that you please RSVP writing to RoseG@peta.org.uk with "Birdie" in the subject line of your e-mail. The meeting location, dress code, lyrics of the chant, instructions on the dance and other fun details will be sent (to people who RSVP) closer to the date of the demonstration.

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• anna1234 August 25, 2009 at 9:02 p.m.

  uh this is why lots of people become vegetarian. i think that most vegetarians would eat meat if animals had a better life before hand then people wouldn't feel mean about eating meat!

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• Patricia1011 August 20, 2009 at 5:25 p.m.

  Hi Melody,
  I used to think like you and would give my meat- eater friends what they were accustomed to eating. However, one day I thought what an incredible opportunity I had to introduce my friends to a veggie diet by cooking some of the most popular dishes for them such as: spaghetti or lasagne with soya and ragu, ratatouille accompanied with macaronni cheese, Sainsbury's own brand soya burgers dressed up with onions, gherkins, tomatoes, etc plus chips, chilli con carne with jacket potatoes, paella using vegetables and vegetarian sausages, the list goes on. One of my friends was converted to Quorn's veggie nuggets and stopped buying chicken, others commented on how varied and colourful a veggie diet is and of course this is the golden opportunity to tell or remind them that studies have shown that vegetarians have a longer life expectancy than meat eaters and that both the British Medical Association and the World Health Organization have stated that we vegetarians can get all the nutrients we need from a balanced vegetarian diet without the saturated fats, hormones, and whatever else they feed the poor stressed animals with. If you need to become more knowledgeable about this matter so that you can spread the message, have a look at VIVA!'s website. There is so much ignorance about vegetarianism, so many people believe that they need to eat meat to be healthy when in fact it is quite the opposite: we humans are not carnivores and our digestive system is not designed to consume much meat, in fact we are omnivores which means we can survive on a healthy balanced veggie diet.

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• kinkiii August 16, 2009 at 1:52 p.m.

  yeah it will . should make it cheaper or eat lentils if you dont agree with it like me!!!

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• Hannah67 August 8, 2009 at 10:47 a.m.

  Melody - I except that meat eaters want to eat meat - but some seem to think that eating a vegetarian sausage or burger may suddenly mean they might be classed as vegetarian (which obviously is not what they want!). I don't eat meat, and I find it quite strange that some meat eaters seem really reluctant to try the vegetarian option. If you do feel strongly about having no meat then I would hold a strictly vegetarian bbq. It would be something new and interesting for all your friends to have. Otherwise, can you not just buy the meats that you want - the higher welfare options. If money is a problem, then perhaps you could buy the meat, and ask others to bring everything else.

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• Sa_Hoff August 6, 2009 at 9:35 p.m.

  People are taking meat for granted and aren't prepared to reduce their meat consumption, which would help them to reduce overall cost. They could then afford a decent cut from an ethical source. Or use cheaper cuts from an ethical source, e.g. shin of beef or chicken thigh fillets from a freedom food source, which are great in flavour. Meat doesn't have to be expensive and meat doesn't have to be on the dinner table everyday.

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• Mags53 August 6, 2009 at 9:34 p.m.

  Melody - (just to say I eat meat BUT) if it's your BBQ you call the shots ABSOLUTELY no meat at your house - no different from most people don't allow anyone to smoke in their house.

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• actionalizzie August 5, 2009 at 9:51 a.m.

  Yes! Of coarse! People buy the cheapest even more now because of the credit crunch, if free range was cheaper everyone would go for it!

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• Melody August 4, 2009 at 12:22 p.m.

  I don't eat meat myself so it's difficult when I have a BBQ to ask people not only to bring their own meat but to make it higher welfare too. I always provide plenty of non-meat food for everyone but that's not always enough for meat eaters - has anyone got any tips on how I could carefully encourage my meat eating friends to be more animal friendly with their meat?

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