- Hugh's Chicken Run
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show_name = Hugh's Chicken Run
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starring =Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
country = flagicon|UKUK
language = English
network =Channel 4
first_aired =7 January 2008
last_aired =9 January 2008
num_episodes = 6
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website = http://www.rivercottage.net/"Hugh's Chicken Run" was a programme as part of
Channel 4 's 'Food Fight' series in whichcelebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall launched the campaign to encourage more consumers to demandfree range chicken. Hugh was joined on the campaign by fellow celebrity chef,Jamie Oliver , who chose to highlight the issues in the more graphicJamie's Fowl Dinners .In the series Hugh set about the highlighting the differences in standards by creating his own intensive and free range chicken farms, as well as mentoring a community project in
Axminster .Hugh heralded the campaign a success when he managed to get to the point where the majority of chicken consumed in the town of
Axminster was free range. Since then the campaign has gone countrywide with over 128,000 viewers having pledged on the campaign website to only buy free range products. The show has been linked with the large rise in free range products, as well as the drop in demand for intensively reared products during January and February 2008 [cite news|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/news/the-campaign-that-changed-the-eating-habits-of-a-nation-788557.html|title=The campaign that changed the eating habits of a nation|accessdate=2008-03-01|date=28 February 2008 |author=Martin Hickman|publisher=The Independent ] . A poll carried out for theRSPCA , 73% of adults claim that they now only buy birds that have "higher welfare" conditions, such as theRSPCA 'sfreedom food scheme,free range or organic [cite news|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/mar/01/chickens|title=Shoppers turn to better-reared poultry|accessdate=2008-03-01|date=1 March 2008 |author=Rebecca Smithers|publisher=The Guardian ]References
External links
* [http://www.chickenout.tv/ Website for the series]
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