"The television chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, known for his earthy approach to cooking and love of offal, is to launch a campaign for the middle classes to boycott cheap chicken in protest at the cruelty of battery farming.

Fearnley-Whittingstall believes well-heeled consumers should be prepared to pay more for their chicken so that fewer birds are reared in overcrowded, unnatural conditions.

Currently, less than 5 per cent of chicken bought in Britain is organic or free-range, and critics believe shoppers place too much emphasis on simply finding the lowest prices. Organic chicken in the supermarket is about 2.5 times the price of intensively reared birds.

Fearnley-Whittingstall is the latest celebrity chef to turn to campaigning, in the wake of Jamie Oliver’s efforts to improve school food. Oliver is also using a Channel 4 programme to attack the poultry industry."

The Sunday Times December 30, 2007

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