Why I won't shop at Tesco

Here is a repeat of my posting on Jan 27th:

Last night on Hugh Fearnley's TV program we heard about Tesco's disreputable labelling of its chicken products.


Today I read this on a packet of Tesco Express Chicken in Morecambe:

Below a photo of a man outside was the text:

One of our farmers Ernie Wheatley.

Ernie has been rearing chickens on his farm set on the edge of the Derbyshire Dales for over 20 years. He regularly checks his flocks as bird welfare is a priority. This helps him achieve the high standards required by Tesco and Independent Farm Assurance.

From this we can imagine an idyllic scene of happy chickens fluttering across a beautiful fell side.

The reality is this:






Clearly Tesco is misleading us and trying to lull us into a false sense of security.

On the evidence of this, would you not be asking questions about Tesco's humanity?

Or doesn't humanity matter when it comes to money?

Just watch this video and you'll quickly get the picture.


If you are concerned - go to the River Cottage site.

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Someone posting a comment about Tesco has accused me of calling them a hypocrite.

This has made me stop and think - something that I appreciate.

My reluctant conclusion on reflection is that if you shop at Tesco you are either a hypocrite or deliberately choose not to think about what you do. If you stopped and thought, you would compare the descriptions of the way chickens are reared in the Coop as well - there you would find that chickens are reared more humanely though personally I don't think even this standard is good enough. It's a question of how humans treat animals and what people feel is acceptable - at least the coop method is a step in the right direction.

Having read the information given above and still shop at Tesco then the inescapable conclusion is that " yes, you are a hypocrite".

To test this thought out:

I bet that if I had a flock of chickens in the market square and ran around kicking and mistreating them, bundling them forcibly into crates, then the above shoppers would be the first to shout at me for being so cruel.

If I stamped carelessly on "darling little robins" or as mentioned before kicked out at cats then these shoppers would immediately shout out in outrage.

In the above TV program it was only when a chicken shopper was willing to visit the sheds where they were grown that she decided that she would stop buying them a pay a small amount more for chickens that lived with a little more dignity. Up to that point she was being a hypocrite in having one set of standards but living by another.

Sadly many people don't like facing the truth that they often do act as hypocrites. Join the human race - you're no better than the rest of us.

Face up to it and like yourself for being honest with yourself.

Our country is filling up with people that are becoming depressed because deep down they don't like themselves and are very touchy about being told the truth.

Tesco shoppers : you're hypocrites.