I saw and heard a fascinating report on the TV and radio yesterday.

In summary it would appear that the Bishop of Liverpool, curious about the origins and destination of large quantities of soy beans being landed at Liverpool docks discovered that they had come from cleared Amazon rainforest and are destined to become feed for the huge quantities of Chicken meat we produce in the UK and Europe.

What I found most interesting about the report was that I believe I heard him say we should be asking the retailer where the food for the chickens we buy had come from. So I’m going to put this to the test. Over the next few weeks as we buy chicken from various sources, I’m going to see if we can find out where the food ingredients that were fed to the chickens comes from. I don’t hold much hope that we’ll have much success. But lets see….

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