tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942522681264332044.post1441783379931175415..comments2023-03-30T10:05:13.911+01:00Comments on Living the simple life I want: EU ban on barren battery cagesMoonwaveshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16018956740090192993noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942522681264332044.post-60513619233226725242011-02-27T16:49:46.804+00:002011-02-27T16:49:46.804+00:00You weren't in the UK at the time the Chicken ...You weren't in the UK at the time the Chicken Out campaign was launched I think. Channel 4 ran a series of programmes (it was in early 2008 iirc) around the topic of chickens (how they're treated while alive and once they have been slaughtered). The Jamie Oliver program was interesting for bringing up the issue of egg in products, which I hadn't really considered before. And the HFW Chicken Run program was very interesting - since no industrial chicken producer would let him in to film, he bought an old chicken factory and set up his own operation, using half of it to raise free-range birds and the other half as non-free range. The debate raged for weeks afterwards about how realistic it really was etc. They may still be available to view on the 4ondemand site for anyone in the UK. I think several producers did make free-range pledges following the programs (Hellmanns is one that comes to mind but I can't remember if they were given as an example of a company doing it already or if they pledged on-air to go completely free-range).Moonwaveshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16018956740090192993noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4942522681264332044.post-76812936740874436012011-02-25T22:40:19.118+00:002011-02-25T22:40:19.118+00:00Thanks for the info. Here in the UK, we have stor...Thanks for the info. Here in the UK, we have stores like M&S that are only doing free range, both in eggs and products that contain eggs. <br /><br />This will come to be, this ban, it's only a matter of time, and the time is coming soon...heather in europehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06410006235787175537noreply@blogger.com