- Date Published:
- 11/01/2008
Sainsbury's
Answer 1
Whole Chicken
Basics
Fresh British Small, Medium and large standard chicken
West Country Corn Fed Chicken
Taste the difference Free Range Chicken
SO organic Chicken
Poussin
Chicken Pieces
Basics and Fresh British Chicken including Breast pieces, Breast fillets, Leg and drums portions
West Country Corn Fed Chicken including Skin on and Skin off Breast Fillet, Leg, drum and thigh portions.
Taste the difference Free Range Breast fillets, legs, drums and thighs.
SO organic Breast fillets, legs and thigh fillets.
Spatchcock Poussin
Answer 2
- Basics and Standard Chicken is reared indoors to Assured Chicken Production standards using the Ross 308 chicken which has a life of 39 days and is reared at a maximum stocking density of 38kg/square metre.
- West Country Corn Fed Chicken is reared indoors to Freedom Foods Standards using a Devonshire Red (Slower growing breed) which has a life of 49 days and is reared at a maximum stocking density of 30kg/square metre.
- Taste the difference Chicken is free-range and reared in conditions that are equivalent (but currently not certified) to Freedom Foods using a Devonshire Red (Slower growing breed) which has a life of 56 days.
- SO organic Chicken is free range reared to Soil Association organic standards using a Devonshire Red (Slower growing breed). The chicken lives for 71 days.
- Poussin is reared indoors to Assured Chicken Production standards using a number of Ross varieties at a stocking density of 30kg/sqaure metre. They have a life of between 21-28days.
Somerfield
Answer 1
Somerfield offers its customers the choice of Simply Value, Somerfield own brand, Somerfield's Best Ever and free range chicken. The local grocer is committed to offering shoppers quality fresh meat produced to British Farm Assured Standards - with independent monitoring of animal welfare - and to improving these standards in line with the industry and customer demand.
Answer 2
All of Somerfield's own brand fresh poultry is reared to the standards set by British Farm Assured Standards - the Red Tractor scheme. Where poultry is sourced from outside the UK but from within the EU the farms are benchmarked and monitored against the British Farm Assured Standard scheme.
Somerfield Best Ever Corn Fed Chicken is reared to the high standards set by the RSPCA Freedom Food scheme to produce premium quality fresh corn fed chicken . These higher standards include environmental enrichments including straw bales, perches, balls and lower density sheds.
Somerfield also sells a range of branded free range poultry.
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