Hugh's Chicken Run - 7th, 8th and 9th January 2008, 9pm, Channel 4 

http://www.rivercottage.net/NewsEvents/Default.aspx
“To me, it shouldn’t be possible to produce a chicken for £2.50.” 

How much does the British public care about the food on their plates?
Especially when it comes to their favourite meat – chicken – which
some supermarkets sell two-for-one, meaning a roast bird is cheaper
than a pint of beer. 

Hugh’s Chicken Run launches the The Big Food Fight, a season of
programming that 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. Starting with the residents of his local town, Axminster and
local supermarket, Tesco, Hugh challenges them to be the first
free-range town, before asking all the major supermarkets, retailers
and consumers, the same. Hugh wants everyone to go free-range. 

And as far as Hugh is concerned, at the heart of it all are the
supermarkets, whose winning combination of cost and convenience have
changed high streets across the country, simply by claiming they are
serving up what the customer wants. But at what cost to the millions
of living chickens? Hugh challenges the supermarkets to change their
pricing policies and to convince their customers to pay more for a
higher welfare chicken. 

In this hard-hitting series, which takes him a world away from his
River Cottage ideals, Hugh learns the reality of modern poultry
production as he sets up his own intensive chicken farm to see for
himself and to demonstrate how cheap chickens are currently produced.
Chicken is Britain’s most popular meat, producing over 850 million
broiler chickens (birds produced for their meat) in the UK each year.
Most of it (over 95% is produced indoors) in intensive factory farm
conditions that deprive the animals of anything resembling a natural
life – from newly-hatched egg to slaughter weight in about 39 days. 

Hugh believes that the precedent set by the move to free-range eggs
now needs to be repeated with poultry meat. But that took 40 years and
Hugh wants change to happen a lot more quickly. He also hopes that if
consumers came face to face with how their cheap chicken is raised,
they would be prepared to pay extra for a free-range bird. But
approaching both the supermarkets and the farming industry to engage
on this topic isn’t as easy as he anticipated… 

In episode one, he realises that the only way to open up the business
of intensive poultry production is to take the extraordinary step of
building his own intensive unit and a free range unit next to it, for
comparison – in an abandoned chicken shed just outside Axminster. 

Hugh also meets the residents of the Millwey Estate – a group of
enthusiastic cheap chicken buyers who Hugh hopes will see the light by
rearing their own flock of laying hens and meat birds on a disused
allotment at the edge of the estate. Not content with just speaking to
the locals, Hugh also spreads the free-range word to the employees at
one of Axminster’s biggest employers, where he challenges the ladies
who run the works canteen to abandon the oven-ready fodder they
currently use, in order to feed the warehouse staff with
locally-sourced, free range chicken. 

Things start to get intense at the intensive farm, in episode two,
where the rapid growth of Hugh’s 2,500 chickens is a stark contrast to
their 1,500 free range neighbours, who get to frolic in the sunshine,
and the grim realities of commercial farming start to weigh heavily on
Hugh’s mind. And as the residents of Millwey start to bond with their
own free range flock, that contrast is not lost on them when they
visit Hugh’s experimental farm to witness the reality of cheap
chicken. For some it’s more than they can bear. Hugh also gets a
weighty endorsement for his aims when fellow chef Jamie Oliver pays
him a visit. 

In the final programme – and just 39 days after they hatched – it’s
time for the chop for the intensive chickens, as it is too for the
free rangers at the Millwey estate. It’s a big moment for the
residents who are asked to kill, cook and eat the chickens that some
have come to regard as pets. 

In town, the plan to make Axminster Britain’s first free range town
goes into overdrive, as Hugh tries to persuade not just local shops
and supermarkets but everyone from the Indian restaurant, fast food
shops and pubs to go completely free range for’ Chicken Out! Week’ – a
whole week during which Hugh needs to ensure more than 50% of chicken
bought and consumed in Axminster is free range. But it’s a lofty
target given free-range accounts for less than 5% of the poultry sold
in this country.  Hugh’s ambitious plans of a free-range future are
not helped when rumours do the rounds in town, that the campaign is a
ploy to promote poultry sales in his own shop  - and he realises that
not everyone appreciates being preached to, by someone who many see as
'that posh bloke off the telly'.  Hugh’s struggle to engage with the
supermarkets takes on a local dimension, after an unfortunate
misunderstanding with the biggest supermarket in town. 

Will Hugh manage to make this sleepy corner of Devon the birthplace of
the great British chicken revolution? 










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England / Angelic Upstarts 

The red in the flag is the blood that was spilt
In the way that your forefathers tell
And never a country has been so great
The stories Britannia could tell 

I never want to live my life
Away from the golden shores
There's never a country in the world
With the scent of an English rose 

England oh England a country so great
A land that's so fair and so true
There'll never be any colours like
The red the white and the blue 

Whenever you go to a far off land
There's something goes with you
The pride and the joy and the love that comes
For your mother of red white and blue 

You could never be born under a flag that's like
The one of the Union Jack
St.Georges spirit has never died
It all keeps coming back

On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:18:06 +0000, Adenoid Hynkel            .
 wrote:

>Hugh's Chicken Run - 7th, 8th and 9th January 2008, 9pm, Channel 4 
>
>http://www.rivercottage.net/NewsEvents/Default.aspx
>“To me, it shouldn’t be possible to produce a chicken for £2.50.” 
>
>How much does the British public care about the food on their plates?
>Especially when it comes to their favourite meat – chicken – which
>some supermarkets sell two-for-one, meaning a roast bird is cheaper
>than a pint of beer. 
>
>Hugh’s Chicken Run launches the The Big Food Fight, a season of
>programming that 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. Starting with the residents of his local town, Axminster and
>local supermarket, Tesco, Hugh challenges them to be the first
>free-range town, before asking all the major supermarkets, retailers
>and consumers, the same. Hugh wants everyone to go free-range. 
>
>And as far as Hugh is concerned, at the heart of it all are the
>supermarkets, whose winning combination of cost and convenience have
>changed high streets across the country, simply by claiming they are
>serving up what the customer wants. But at what cost to the millions
>of living chickens? Hugh challenges the supermarkets to change their
>pricing policies and to convince their customers to pay more for a
>higher welfare chicken. 
>
>In this hard-hitting series, which takes him a world away from his
>River Cottage ideals, Hugh learns the reality of modern poultry
>production as he sets up his own intensive chicken farm to see for
>himself and to demonstrate how cheap chickens are currently produced.
>Chicken is Britain’s most popular meat, producing over 850 million
>broiler chickens (birds produced for their meat) in the UK each year.
>Most of it (over 95% is produced indoors) in intensive factory farm
>conditions that deprive the animals of anything resembling a natural
>life – from newly-hatched egg to slaughter weight in about 39 days. 
>
>Hugh believes that the precedent set by the move to free-range eggs
>now needs to be repeated with poultry meat. But that took 40 years and
>Hugh wants change to happen a lot more quickly. He also hopes that if
>consumers came face to face with how their cheap chicken is raised,
>they would be prepared to pay extra for a free-range bird. But
>approaching both the supermarkets and the farming industry to engage
>on this topic isn’t as easy as he anticipated… 
>
>In episode one, he realises that the only way to open up the business
>of intensive poultry production is to take the extraordinary step of
>building his own intensive unit and a free range unit next to it, for
>comparison – in an abandoned chicken shed just outside Axminster. 
>
>Hugh also meets the residents of the Millwey Estate – a group of
>enthusiastic cheap chicken buyers who Hugh hopes will see the light by
>rearing their own flock of laying hens and meat birds on a disused
>allotment at the edge of the estate. Not content with just speaking to
>the locals, Hugh also spreads the free-range word to the employees at
>one of Axminster’s biggest employers, where he challenges the ladies
>who run the works canteen to abandon the oven-ready fodder they
>currently use, in order to feed the warehouse staff with
>locally-sourced, free range chicken. 
>
>Things start to get intense at the intensive farm, in episode two,
>where the rapid growth of Hugh’s 2,500 chickens is a stark contrast to
>their 1,500 free range neighbours, who get to frolic in the sunshine,
>and the grim realities of commercial farming start to weigh heavily on
>Hugh’s mind. And as the residents of Millwey start to bond with their
>own free range flock, that contrast is not lost on them when they
>visit Hugh’s experimental farm to witness the reality of cheap
>chicken. For some it’s more than they can bear. Hugh also gets a
>weighty endorsement for his aims when fellow chef Jamie Oliver pays
>him a visit. 
>
>In the final programme – and just 39 days after they hatched – it’s
>time for the chop for the intensive chickens, as it is too for the
>free rangers at the Millwey estate. It’s a big moment for the
>residents who are asked to kill, cook and eat the chickens that some
>have come to regard as pets. 
>
>In town, the plan to make Axminster Britain’s first free range town
>goes into overdrive, as Hugh tries to persuade not just local shops
>and supermarkets but everyone from the Indian restaurant, fast food
>shops and pubs to go completely free range for’ Chicken Out! Week’ – a
>whole week during which Hugh needs to ensure more than 50% of chicken
>bought and consumed in Axminster is free range. But it’s a lofty
>target given free-range accounts for less than 5% of the poultry sold
>in this country.  Hugh’s ambitious plans of a free-range future are
>not helped when rumours do the rounds in town, that the campaign is a
>ploy to promote poultry sales in his own shop  - and he realises that
>not everyone appreciates being preached to, by someone who many see as
>'that posh bloke off the telly'.  Hugh’s struggle to engage with the
>supermarkets takes on a local dimension, after an unfortunate
>misunderstanding with the biggest supermarket in town. 
>
>Will Hugh manage to make this sleepy corner of Devon the birthplace of
>the great British chicken revolution? 

Well done to Hugh for trying so hard to highlight factory farming
issues.









--

My greatest speech to the peasants
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=em7LWuP0T7Q

pam the SPAMMERS send an email to enquires@urfreesim.co.uk



England / Angelic Upstarts 

The red in the flag is the blood that was spilt
In the way that your forefathers tell
And never a country has been so great
The stories Britannia could tell 

I never want to live my life
Away from the golden shores
There's never a country in the world
With the scent of an English rose 

England oh England a country so great
A land that's so fair and so true
There'll never be any colours like
The red the white and the blue 

Whenever you go to a far off land
There's something goes with you
The pride and the joy and the love that comes
For your mother of red white and blue 

You could never be born under a flag that's like
The one of the Union Jack
St.Georges spirit has never died
It all keeps coming back

Hemorrhoid Hynkel, aka Pete the shitbag, blabbered:
> On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 00:18:06 +0000, Adenoid Hynkel            .
>  wrote:
> 
>> Hugh's Chicken Run 
> Well done to Hugh for

Fuck off, squirt.