Will anyone trust "Bernard Matthews" products again?

Question

Given all the problems of recent times will you purchase more products with this label on them?

Do you remember the BSE scare that humans couldn’t catch? I do that’s why I don’t believe them now.

Answer 1

To my shame I often purchased Bernard Matthews cooked meats, but never again.

I don't entirely believe the fact that humans can not contract avian flu, even if they do cook the food well before eating. I remember well BSE.

No, the reason I will never eat Bernard Matthews food again is because of the inhumane conditions those turkeys were kept in. I don't know if this was the first time Bernard Matthews has had problems in the manner of his housing and treatment of poultry, but I can't imagine it being the last.

Those birds were just milling around bumping into each other because they had no space, when I bet he is living in a mansion with the ratio of one person to two or three rooms.

I wouldn't be surprised, if, after this, he becomes a target of animal rights activists. With the money he has, he could cut down the number of turkeys per shed by 50% at least, and could look into having some open spaces outside.

I know this could all be done if he could just accept earning less money than he is at present. But, hey, what are the rights of animals compared with the riches of man.

Answer 2

I was never terribly keen on his products in the first place. However, if you worry about getting bird flu through eating poultry, you haven't been paying enough attention - it's almost impossible to get unless you handle the bird, and even then it's unlikely - the virus can't survive cooking, and even if you were to chew on a raw turkey (in which case you probably have mad cow disease and avian flu's the least of your worries) your stomach acids kill the virus. Having said all that, Bernard Matthews poultry is mass reared in an inhumane environment and should be avoided for all sorts of reasons - but bird flu is not one of them!

Answer 3

Of course people will.

If they had any sense they wouldn't be buying the stuff in the first place.

Turley sales went down 10% in some shops, and not in others.

I think half those people don't even know turkey slices come from a turkey.

and now you all know the turkeys are shipped in LIVE in sealed lorries and moved aroudn with buckets on the front of trucks...LIVE. Do you all care ? if so, prove it with your spending habits.

shame, its a good opportunity for people to change the way these animals are treated but people think more of thier ciggie money than they do of animals.

i hope them shipping in more turkeys today will make people think, but i doubt it.

Last year the smae plant had to slaughter 50,000 birds becasue of flu, it was just a different strain to H5N1

As you can see from my picture, i'm a chicken, and think all you humans are cruel for treating my friends like this.

Answer 4

that's not suitable what nutrition we purchase, or the place we purchase it from, there is often some degree of blind faith in that's provenance. whether you circulate to a farm shop and purchase a cabbage, you're able to confirm it is going to purely contain cabbage, yet how do you comprehend that's not been sprayed with some unlawful pesticide basically via fact they permit you comprehend it hasn't? How do you comprehend some disgruntled worker hasn't pee'd throughout it? you would be able to desire to speculate on any volume of circumstances, no count how unlikely or ludicrous, and nonetheless you will no longer be able to comprehend for absolute actuality. So except you circulate self keeping our purely decision is to have faith interior the spot-tests and regulations that function interior the nutrition marketplace, processed or no longer. no count if cutting-edge provision is efficient sufficient, or funded sufficient, nicely that's yet another count. little question it is going to contain an improve in expenditures to the buyer and that's no count if we are able to locate the money for/are arranged to pay greater to be sure that. i've got considered pensioners paying for the tinned tuna I feed my cat - there are a number of susceptible people who're sitting ducks and have no option to impose any style of boycott - they devour what they are able to locate the money for.

Answer 5

It is like with an addled egg. Just because one is addled, it does not mean that every egg is addled! I think people make a big mountain out of a mole hill. Do you feed pigeons? Eat chickens?
Soil from vegetables probably contain harmful bacteria, but we wash them and cook them. That is why we cook meat and poultry and fish!!!

I would say grow up - or starve!

Answer 6

I've never trusted Bernard Matthews products, and I was laughing my a*rse off when I heard he had bird flu in his turkeys.

Answer 7

Certainly not - they have always told us that it's 'Norfolk Turkey' and now we find that they lied and brought in infected crap from Hungary.

I will never buy BM products again. I think they've messed up their brand and are going to be in big trouble financially.

Answer 8

There's no risk of bird flu from cooked meat but I wouldn't eat that revolting processed rubbish anyway.
I hope they go out of business and people have to learn to cook.

Answer 9

Yes.
The government scare mongering is beyond a joke.
The food is SAFE!!! the FSA keep telling us that it is SAFE so why the hell are people worrying.

Answer 10

No,but all of these food companies are the same