BigBarn makes buying the best Christmas turkey even easier
Photo courtesy of John Wright
As you must have noticed Christmas is fast approaching. The high street is already full of decorations and Bernard Matthews is taking advertising space on the tele showing green grass and a big green tick across their new packaging. This is a bit misleading when nearly seven million of his turkeys are reared in vast, windowless, barren sheds and never see or experience life in a field.
Around 90% of UK turkeys are reared in such intensive systems, where sheds can contain up to 25,000 birds. The floor will be covered in excrement and release ammonia causing many birds to have painful sores on their feet and eye damage. This is without the worry of growth promoters and anti-biotic additives in the feed.
I am sorry to bring this to your attention but this is where the food industry has gone, and will continue to get worse unless we demand change or shop carefully. So to help we have added our turkey page to BigBarn. Visit our Turkey Directory to find your local turkey producers. You can order your turkey and pay online in our Localfoodshop and save on delivery charges by collecting your prize dinner just before Christmas. This will allow you to see the farm and quiz the farmer on feeds, turkey breed and how they have been reared. You may be so impressed you will want to book your turkey for next year.
And please have a look round localfoodshop for other Christmas goodies like a ham, Christmas cake, chocolate, cheese, goose, or great British beef by clicking on each, or using the search box when you are in the site. If we have not got what you are looking for we should have soon as more products are added every day.
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BigBarn Turkey Directory
Click here to find turkey producers in your area, producers who sell online and turkey recipes to help you make the most of your Christmas bird!
This project is supported under the England Rural Development Programme by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund
Fresh game in season, pheasant, partridge, grouse, wild duck, venison, pigeon,
rabbit, hare, much from our own shoot. Also guinea fowl, quail, aylesbury
duck, turkey, select portions and cuts of venison and a range of sausages,
burgers and hot and cold eating pies all on a game theme. Products are shipped
for Friday delivery
Comments for BigBarn makes buying the best Christmas turkey even easier
Left by Vivien on 12 Nov 2008.
Why would anyone even consider feeding their family on one of those revolting factory farmed turkeys - why not poison your children and grandparents on Christmas Day?! Buy Local and support local producers. This facility has a fantastic map showing producers. Well done BigBarn. Eat well. Happy Christmas
Left by Trevor on 19 Nov 2008.
I'm with you all the way Vivien. The most important piece of meat for the whole year has to be good. I have just ordered my turkey using the the BigBarn turkey map and am looking forward to collecting it just before Christmas. I will take the kids and ask the farmer all about rearing turkeys and what makes them better than Bernard's buzzards, well that's what they taste like, apparently!
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