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Posted: 1 January 2008 02:10 pm | 1st Post |
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THE television chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, known for his earthy approach to cooking and love of offal, is to launch a campaign for the middle classes to boycott cheap chicken in protest at the cruelty of battery farming.
Fearnley-Whittingstall believes well-heeled consumers should be prepared to pay more for their chicken so that fewer birds are reared in overcrowded, unnatural conditions.
Currently, less than 5 per cent of chicken bought in Britain is organic or free-range, and critics believe shoppers place too much emphasis on simply finding the lowest prices. Organic chicken in the supermarket is about 2½ times the price of intensively reared birds.
Fearnley-Whittingstall is the latest celebrity chef to turn to campaigning, in the wake of Jamie Oliver’s efforts to improve school food. Oliver is also using a Channel 4 programme to attack the poultry industry.
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Posted: 1 January 2008 08:18 pm | 2nd Post |
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| I watched a programme the other week, think it was linked to Jimmys Farm, where they showed a shed full of chickens 50,000 I think it was and the farmer was saying after costs he would only make 3p on each bird. Whats the point I asked myself. Why not change the way he farmed the birds ,have less birds give them some outside space and class them as outdoor reared birds and make more money out of each one. the problem I think is that many farmers are stuck in the trap of the supermarkets demands on quantity and price.
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Posted: 1 January 2008 10:49 pm | 3rd Post |
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Too true, the supermarkets seem to have one arm of the farmer behind his back ! however I think the consumer must take most of the blame if we did not demand cheap food then they would not have to produce it in these ways, on the bright side I remember reading that battery farms will soon be phased out in this country.
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