Free range chicken campaign (UK)

[TraXy]

Channel 4 have a series on food running at the moment. Started yesterday, continues tonight and tomorrow night, with Hugh's Chicken Run, featuring Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. On the 11th, there will also be a special - Jamie's Fowl Dinners - about battery farming vs free range chickens by Jamie Oliver.

If you like your chicken dinners to be made from happy chickens who have had a decent life and been allowed to be, well, chickens - take a stand. Don't buy cheap supermarket chickens, buy free range or organic free range!

Also, sign up to the Chicken Out campaign, and the one that the RSPCA are running.

http://www.chickenout.tv/
http://www.jamieoliver.com/jamiesfowldinners/
http://www.supportchickennow.co.uk/

[Annette]

I have 4 pet chickens who love me enough to supply me with breakfast every day. They have full control of my yard. They bring me much joy and laughter! Just try to keep a smile off your face when you watch a chicken run!!
They are much loved by me and my daughter. There is absolutly a difference between the eggs from loved chickens amd the ones that you buy in the store. They actually lead us to their eggs every day and have come to expect the loving thankfullness that we give them. If we get busy and don't get the eggs as expected we get an indignent cluck and a peck at the door.
Whoever said that chickens don't have intellegnce and feelings has never lived with a chicken.

[sshenry]

Free Chickens! Eggzactly!

[UntoldGlory]

I try to buy organics whenever I can. However, I have heard that the 'free range' trend is not well regulated, and that many 'free range' chickens are far from happy. According to what I've heard, in order to qualify as 'free range,' the owner of the chickencoop basically just has to open the door of the coop and let fresh air in. Any truth in that?