Supermarket Secrets

Yesterday I saw a movie called Supermarket Secrets.The movie Supermarket Secrets shows people how the chicken meat comes from. Before the reporter came to chicken farm, she made two experiments. Twelve people attended this experiment. In the first test, people need to eat the traditional butcher’s prime sirloin and Morisons top quality sirloin steak , ten of twelve people thought the traditional butcher’s prime sirloin was more delicious than Morisons steak. In the test two, people ate the Sainsbury’s lamp chops and the traditional butcher’s lamp chops, nine of twelve prefer to eat traditional lamp chops. Why meat comes from supermarket is not as delicious as meat from traditional butcher’s meat? The reporter came to chicken farm to see how the chickens grew up.

In the year 1970 people consumed 200 million chickens per year, till the year 2004 people consumed 850 million per year. From this data, we can see people eat chicken meat more than before. That means people need more chicken, so the factory farming need chickens to grow up quick. Donald Broom, a professor of animal welfare Cambridge University said that, 30 years ago a chicken grows old need 75 to 80 days but now a chicken grows up just need 35 to 40 days. These chickens must be feed by some special feeding stuff which can let them grow quickly. In the movie, I saw more than thousand chickens were feed in the farm and some of them got diseases, some of them were died and some of them can’t be able to stand, and the flies around chickens. I can’t imaged the chickens which I have eaten lived in this terrible condition; this condition provides a good way for bacterial reproduction. Farmer use drug to stop chicken get diseases “When a farmer treats a chicken flock with the antibiotic Baytril, it kills most of the bacteria responsible for the respiratory infection — but it also kills many of the campylobacter bacteria that naturally live in the chickens' guts.”(Livestock kick a drug habit, 2005), from this we can see drug can’t stop chicken get disease. The chicken meat in the supermarket Tesco and Morisons were had brown spots on legs, I don’t think this kind of chicken were nutritious.