- Date Published:
- 08/01/2008
Jamie's Fowl Dinners is on Channel 4 at 9pm on 11 January, and promises to lift the lid on what happens to chicken. Here are some facts about Britain's favourite bird.
Meat chickens
- Chicken is Britain's most popular meat
- We eat 12 times as much chicken as we did 30 yrs ago
- 855 million chickens are produced in the UK every year
- Supermarkets are selling whole birds for as little as £2 - pound for pound that's cheaper than some dog food
- Every day 100,000 birds die in standard chicken farms due to poor welfare conditions
Egg laying hens
- We eat over 10 billion eggs a year in the UK
- As well as being sold whole, eggs are present as an ingredient in a number of foods including mayonnaise, biscuits and even wine
- 86% of these eggs still come from battery caged hens who do not have the freedom to express natural behaviour i.e. dust bathe, forage, roost & nest
Find out more about The Big Food Fight here
Find out why chicken welfare captured Jamie's attention
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