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Hellman’s goes free range

Like many people who watched Jamie’s Fowl Dinners earlier this year, my family made a renewed effort to stamp out non-free-range eggs from our weekly shopping.

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by Charlie Peverett in At home on 09.06.08 | Leave a comment | permalink

Jamie and Hugh “to live like broiler chickens”

Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall are to follow-up their free-range chicken campaign with a more radical approach to changing the nation’s patterns of consumption.
Plans are underway for a Channel 4 series that will see Fearnley-Whittingstall living in a small cage for eight weeks.

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by the editor in At home on 01.04.08 | Leave a comment | permalink

Time to start a free-range chicken farm?

A whole lot of feathers can fly in two months.
Since Messrs Hugh Fearley-Whittingstall and Jamie Oliver launched their poultry welfare campaign earlier this year, there have been a lot of anecdotal reports about supermarkets running out of free-range birds.

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by Charlie Peverett in At home on 28.02.08 | Leave a comment | permalink

Free-range chicken campaign: battered but unbowed

The free-range chicken debate rolls on, like a long egg dropped on a steep hill.
In recent days we’ve seen some feathers fly - Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall was accused of allowing birds to be “treated more cruelly” than standard poultry farms during his intensive farming experiment (rebutted in detail on the Chicken Out! website).

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by Charlie Peverett in At home on 18.01.08 | 3 comments | permalink

What’s a long egg?

Anyone who saw either Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall or Jamie Oliver’s programmes about chicken over the last week or so is unlikely to have been unmoved.

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by Charlie Peverett in At home on 14.01.08 | 3 comments | permalink

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