Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall, the man from River Cottage, is doing for chickens what Jamie Oliver did for school dinners. He’s launching a campaign via the wonderful medium of TV to highlight the plight of battery hens and improve their conditions and lives.
The Chicken Out! campaign is Hugh’s bold attempt to make people wake up to the reality of eating chicken and all that it entails. Not only has he already managed to get his local restaurants in Axminster to go ‘Free Range’, but he’s mustering support from the likes of you and me in order to petition the supermarkets, farmers and government to get the problem resolved.
So sign the petition, and make people realise that a chicken that costs just £2 is an abomination!
BATTERY CHICKEN PROSSES SHOULD BE OUTLAWED IF WE KEPT OUR PETS IN THE SAME MANNER THEN WE WOULD BE SOON IN TROUBLE THIS IS CRUELTY AND SHOULD BE TREATED BY THE LAW AS SUCH
Hello! I Think What You Are Doing With The Campaign Is Brilliant I Am Only Young But I Fell Quite Strongly About The Cruelty Going Into The Battery Chickens It Is Absolutly Revolting! I Am Grateful That A Famous Person Like You And Jamie Oliver Feel This Way And Have Gone To Such Lengths To Show People What They Do To The Chickens And What They Are Actually Eating Also Because You Are Well Known Famous Cooks It Will Be Recognised By The World And Actually Taken Seriously But For Me To Do It Nobody Will Look Twice At A 12 Year Old Girl Telling Them What Is Good For Them And What Is'nt! My Mother Also Feels The Same We Are Planning To Make Posters And Protest! I Have Made A Band On A Social Website Called Bebo www.bebo.com/kfccrueltystopsnow If You Visit That It Will Hopefully Lead You To My Page I Would Be Grateful If You Could Help Out My Site!
If You Could Contact Me In Response Of My E-Mail I Would Be VERY Grateful!
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I rosie g do promise to eat only free range chicken,i was mega upset watching Hughs campaign. Those poor miserable birds and their short existence in that shed of doom had me awake most of the night either that or it was the storms up here in scotland that kept me awake, probably a bit of both.Wish I was a veggie,anyway well done Hugh.x
I cannot thank you enough and think that you are wonderful and hopefully a real pioneer in something very big and hope that it is successful. It is a hideous scenario and with all of our green and wonderful country that exists here in the uk we have to treat birds like this.
Some people make me sick,they sit in a pub saying that they cannot afford to pay an extra 2.00 for a free range chicken but clearly they can afford to sit in a pub drinking during the day! where are peoples conciences? would they like that kind kind of existance?. Good luck to you and Jamie lets hope things improve, we need more of this exposure of this barbaric cruelty. Are we really a nation of animal lovers? It clearly appears not so.
I BUY LOTS OF CHICKEN AND FISH BUT NOW HAVING WA TCHED YOUR PROGRAMME ON HOW CHICKEN IS KEPT I SHALL BE BUYING LESS CHICKEN BUT IT WILL BE FREE RANGE OR ORGANIC VARIETY.
Hopefully this series will make people think about all meat purchases - pigs are intensively reared (and they're as clever as dogs!), ducks too. As Jamie Oliver mentioned in his Christmas TV show, goose is probably the only bird that cannot be reared intensively. It's the practice involved that matters not the animal.
Unfortunately, it usually takes governmental intervention before anything is really done about these things, and we all know how useless the government is at making any decision - especially when they're faced with rich lobbyists.
as a result of hughs program my family are now free range.
Hi Hugh, I think the programme this week was excellent and has been a long time coming, so well done. I can remember years ago as a child travelling through the countryside seeing chickens running free and quite often in the road outside farms, where you could stop the car and buy eggs and prepared chickens to take home, as it still common today in some european countrys such as France. As for the English being a nation of animal lovers and discussing programmes like yours with family and friends, we seem to be blind to animal welfare until its shown up front by people like yourself and Jamie, so keep at it mate, people can and will change their views, One worry though, mainly with the supermarkets showing very little interest in adopting more free range products, "what will stop them selling mass produced chickens as free range if more demand for free range becomes greater" just for more profit.
The three part show was a eye opener this week long time coming but it opened my eyes never realised how bad it really is. The campaign seems to of hit a lot of people as my mum went to do the shopping today there was no free range or organic chickens on the shelfs in tesco Newmarket Suffolk hope it stays that way well done Hugh keep the campaign going.