bernerd mathews???

Question

just realised my turkey is from bernerd mathews..is it ok to eat???

Answer 1

Take it back to the supermarket for a full refund or vouchers.

Answer 2

If it wasn't from Bernard Mathews would you eat it?

Despite it has been bred on concrete floor, had its beak and a part of tongue burnt off, been fed antibiotics and hormons so it grained breast weight so quickly its legs couldn't support it anymore, has been kicked around and then hanged upside down, electrocuted, had its head cut off by a machine (unless it missed and was then thrown into boiling water when stil alive?)

So, what was the price of it's life, what did you pay? £5?
I am sure you could have bought plenty of other food for this money!

So here's my answer: NO, it is not OK to eat it. Not a Bernard Matthews turkey, not any other one.

Answer 3

If you have to, but why would you eat turkey that's been intensively reared like that? Didn't you see the thousands of turkeys in each shed on the news? They live in those sheds in their thousands. They barely have room to stretch their wings out, there is nowhere to go to the toilet except on the floor they stand on, and the numbers of turkeys in there make it difficult to keep the sheds clean meaning they're standing in their own excrement (look out for pink marks on the skin of poultry- these are ammonia burns from the excrement. Mmmmm, yummy). Their beaks are clipped so they can't peck each other, they are fed growth hormones because the faster they grow the more cost-effective it is- they often grow faster than their skeletons can cope with, leaving them limping round on broken legs, dead birds can lie there for days decomposing and infecting birds around them because the density of birds is such they are difficult to see and I haven't even got onto the slaughtering yet. This is not just Bernard Matthews by the way, this is all mass-produced meat products.
I suppose it depends what you mean by OK.

Answer 4

Do you really have the heart to eat a Turkey that has lived all its life in a crowded barn, with no less than a 1000 other turkeys, made to live in it's own poo, injected crippling growth drugs, stacked into a lorry, kicked and tormented, hung upside-down on a machine, passed through electrified water so its paralysed then have it's throat slit to bleed to death? Save turkeys, and other defenceless animals, be a vegetarian!

Answer 5

After seeing the photos of the lives these poor turkeys have I have vowed never to eat turkey again and I guess that Bernard Mathews being in UK would be well regulated, imagine the life they have in other counties..............the mind boggles

Answer 6

As long as you cook it probably yes it is.

However what you should be asking yourself is this: 'Do I want to be eating a battery turkey?' Thats what they are. I for one would rather know that the turkey I was eating had lived in a small flock and had the freedom to roam during the day.

Answer 7

probably safe, but why not become vegetarian and save 20/30 million turkeys each year?
is this the end for bernie mathews?

xxx

Answer 8

Cut your losses and throw it out. Get a properly reared one-why eat rubbish? Surely, you're worth more than that?

Answer 9

I would take it back to the shop out of principle

Answer 10

Yes,just make sure that it is thoroughly cooked