Quote Originally Posted by noel View Post
Chlorinated chickens is an interesting example though isn't it? There's no question that the chicken is less healthy to the people eating it - it's about animal welfare standards. And in the UK we have high animal welfare standards, because that's requested by the majority of people. But if a minority of people want to buy cheaper chicken because they don't care so much about the welfare of chickens, it's hard to make a judgement to say they shouldn't.
I personally would boycott any shop or supermarket that sold food that was raised on lower standards than presently applied in the UK and Europe, especially so with chlorinated chicken sheds where chickens are raised very very poorly. The chlorine washing isn't the issue itself but the chickens are cleansed that way after death to make up for very poor standards of life and wellbeing of the birds while alive, what with cramped conditions, illness and poor sanitation. I seriously doubt many/any current supermarkets in the UK will want to sell chlorinated chicken anyway and haven't some already stated that they won't?

That said I'm 90% vegetarian nowadays and only eat fish from time to time (I guess I'm pescatarian ) so I wouldn't be eating any chicken one way or the other