Chicken run
Free-range chickens hit the small screen
By Caroline Cummins
April 4, 2008
So British farmer, chef, and author Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, of River Cottage fame, has a new television show on Britain’s Channel 4. Titled “Hugh's Chicken Run,” the show documents Fearnley-Whittingstall’s attempt to convince Britons to eat better chicken.
The gimmick? Hughie, the small-farms advocate, sets up his own CAFO (confined animal feeding operation) for chickens, to show how all that cheap supermarket chicken is actually produced. It’s all part of Fearnley-Whittingstall’s campaign to get consumers to “chicken out” of buying cheap chicken.
Channel 4’s website shows clips from “Hugh’s Chicken Run,” or there’s this YouTube video that you can chick, er, check out:
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1. by Carrie on Apr 4, 2008 at 2:46 PM PDT
And let’s not forget, the relationship between how the chickens are raised and how they taste. As for voting with my fork, I’ll take a grub-eating, free-range chicken any day; I don’t want the antibiotics or bad juju from eating cheap chickens (raised in confinement, killed young).
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