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DOCUMENTARY: Hugh’s Chicken Run
On: Channel 4 (4)
Date: Monday 7th January 2008
Time: 21:00 to 22:00 (1 hour long)

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Hugh’s Chicken Run launches the The Big Food Fight, a season of programming which aims to raise awareness and encourage debate about food production, animal welfare and healthy eating. Running over three consecutive nights, Hugh’s Chicken Run presents Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall with his biggest challenge yet, as he goes behind the chicken shed doors to change the way Britain consumes chicken.
(Watch Online, Subtitles, Part 1 of 3)

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(ok, I couldn’t take the flippin’ sound effects myself! I’ve muted them…)

An open letter from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall:

I need your help…

You may have heard about the conditions involved in intensive factory farming of broiler (meat) chickens. I feel that these conditions are unacceptable – so much so, that I’m launching a national campaign to put pressure on the industry to raise its standards: the Chicken Out! campaign.

Chicken Out! has so far been led by River Cottage locals, especially in and around Axminster, and we’ve had a fantastic response. But now I need your support. I’m asking all of you, as friends of River Cottage, to support this campaign and get it off to a flying start across the nation. Please just click the link below*, or if you’re not convinced, see www.chickenout.tv for more info.

And pass it on to your friends, if we get enough support, we really can make a difference.

Our girls run fairly free – not wholly free range, but pretty close. They feel bettererer, we feel bettererer. Just up the road are a couple of less bettererer egg factories, and when the wind is in the ‘unfortunate’ direction… phew!