Delia Smith’s slum cookery proves too much to stomach
It was 15 minutes into Delia Smith’s new cooking show before she chopped so much as a leek, apparently. I didn’t watch owing to the fact that I now consider the hugely popular cook to have sold out, praising junk food, arguing in favour of intensive, unnatural, and inherently cruel farming methods while dissing the very notion of organic food. She seems to think to maintain her former status as the UK’s number one TV chef she has to come out in support of the frozen oven chip and other nasty food products designed for those who won’t make time for real food.
tags: additives, Delia Smith, fast food, food ethics, intensive farming, junk food, organicGood news so far on cruelty-free, but still a long way to go
The Independent newspaper ran with a front page story last week that was immensely gratifying, and is available to read here. Sales of factory-farmed chickens have nosedived since the high-profile Chicken Out campaign began, raising awareness of the cruelty intrinsic to this sector of the poultry industry.
Consumers were urged by high-profile chefs Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall to pay more for chickens raised as free-range, organic or under the Freedom Food banner (the RSPCA’s gold standard for shed-raised birds, involving more space, less birds in that space, and diversionary toys and ladders and platforms to prevent boredom).
tags: animal cruelty, Channel 4, chickens, documentaries, factory farming, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, intensive farming, Jamie Oliver
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