Good 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 OliverWe’ve bought their house… Now we just need the chickens!
We get our first four ex-battery hens through the Battery Hen Welfare Trust at the end of January or during February sometime before the end of March, whenever the next rescue collection takes place, for the sum of fifty pence each. That’s more than the supermarkets pay for birds dead at the end of miserable lives, trust me. What do you think broiler chickens cost the likes of Tesco’s and Sainsbury’s when they charge in the region of just three quid for a whole chicken?
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