Does your man in the Aldi ad actually say a happier turkey is a tastier turkey!!!!

Prometheus

From the look on his face, even he knows he,s talking ****e!

Silverfish

It's actually true. If an animal is stressed prior to slaughter, it releases chemicals that makes the meat not great quality. The less it's aware of what's going on, the better the meat quality.

marketty

I didn't choose the turkey life, the turkey life chose me

AnonoBoy

I only eat animals that have a positive outlook on life.

Like those laughing cows I see in ads all the time. Lovely steak off them.

kneemos

Silverfish wrote: »

It's actually true. If an animal is stressed prior to slaughter, it releases chemicals that makes the meat not great quality. The less it's aware of what's going on, the better the meat quality.

So I should creep up behind it at night with a machete.

xpletiv

Atari Jaguar.

Max Power

Silverfish wrote: »

It's actually true. If an animal is stressed prior to slaughter, it releases chemicals that makes the meat not great quality. The less it's aware of what's going on, the better the meat quality.

What a load of cock.

Napper Hawkins

FionnMcCool87 wrote: »

What a load of cock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLJ1OJuUXfM

BUBBLE WRAP

Aaah here, leave it ou!

Silverfish

FionnMcCool87 wrote: »

What a load of cock.

I've my evidence, where's yours?

3ndahalfof6

A happy turkey has just tasted turkey in his jam jams. ( sorry dustin it was going to come out sooner or later)

ebbsy

Its Turkey Substitute.

WindSock

A turkey is a bad person.

kowloon

A happy turkey is a healthy turkey that's kept in good conditions and most importantly, fed well. Those things will make for good turkey meat.

Poultry can get depressed from lack of stimulation too, they can just give up. That's why poultry farmers will put things in with them that they can peck at.

I've kept Chickens and Ducks for years, Turkeys are much the same.

readytosnap

i love turkey

humberklog

I'm a happier human if my turkey's had a happier life. I'm little tastier too. Tastier than turkey.

Ghandee

I used to work in a turkey farm ahem was younger.

Due to the farmer over feeding the birds, and them being cooped up without much exercise,b they were quite prone to getting very fat, this in turn made it difficult for them to mate naturally.

So due to this, my job was to artificially inseminate the hen Turkeys with the freshly extracted semen from the cocks.


Anyway, one cold dark and long say in particular, I had a lot of 'man' Turkeys semen to extract, and you can use your imagination on how that happened :eek:
So, there was roughly thirty Turkeys in a pen, had most of them serviced, but one in particular kept giving me the runaround, and priced quite hard to catch.

Finally, he was the last turkey in the pen,b and I chased him round and round that pen for fifteen mins or so, when finally I had him cornered......

I crept up to him, arms outstretched, ready to make that catch, when suddenly that wee turkey looked up at me with his sad turkey eyes, and went 'gobble gobble'

I said,

"shut your mouth and get over here, you'll get a ****, the same as the rest"!:mad:

Shane-KornSpace

Its the same reason that Free Range eggs are nicer than the non-Free Range ones.

Ficheall

Silverfish wrote: »

It's actually true. If an animal is stressed prior to slaughter, it releases chemicals that makes the meat not great quality. The less it's aware of what's going on, the better the meat quality.

My dad kept a couple of pigs a couple of years back. Plenty of space to run around outside, the best of scraps, and the meat was nowhere near as nice as stuff you'd buy in the shop.

Silverfish

Ficheall wrote: »

My dad kept a couple of pigs a couple of years back. Plenty of space to run around outside, the best of scraps, and the meat was nowhere near as nice as stuff you'd buy in the shop.

It's not all about how they were kept, its what occurred at the point of slaughter.

mconigol

kowloon wrote: »

I've kept Chickens and Ducks for years, Turkeys are much the same.

So I see the PC brigade is out tonight, everyone knows Turkeys are trouble.

M cebee

Ficheall wrote: »

My dad kept a couple of pigs a couple of years back. Plenty of space to run around outside, the best of scraps, and the meat was nowhere near as nice as stuff you'd buy in the shop.

i remember yer man Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall doing a taste test
between your example and the cheap intensive farmed stuff
if i recall correctly the intensive farmed pigs won the taste test

kowloon

M cebee wrote: »

i remember yer man Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall doing a taste test
between your example and the cheap intensive farmed stuff
if i recall correctly the intensive farmed pigs won the taste test

I think it mostly comes down to diet and a clean healthy environment. If the intensively farmed pigs are winning on those fronts it probably follows that they'll be more delicious.
Eggs from smallholders usually beat anything you get in a supermarket for the same reasons. They get treated like pets, get a wider variety of food and can peck around for bugs and other tasty things while being kept active.