Articles > Newspapers > International Newspapers, Local Markets Li-Z > Lincolnshire Echo articles > January 2008

Article: Jamie Oliver prompts free-range chicken rush

Article from:
Lincolnshire Echo
Article date:
January 31, 2008
Copyright

Supermarkets are struggling to keep up with the demand for free- range chickens as consumers turn their back on intensively-reared birds.

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall's 'Chicken Run' and Jamie Oliver's 'Fowl Dinners' were screened three weeks ago.

Both programmes aimed to raise awareness of the conditions endured by so-called 'standard' birds that allow some supermarket chains to sell battery-farmed chickens for as little as pounds2.

Yesterday afternoon the Echo visited six city supermarkets.

At Asda, in Newark Road, all free range legs and drumsticks were sold out and only two whole free range chickens were left.

A shop assistant told the Echo ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:

Article: Tritton Road not the cause of traffic issue ; VIEWS ...
Lincolnshire Echo;  December 18, 2009 ;     432 words ...Redeveloping the junction of Tritton Road and Doddington Road ? It's the whole ... Saxilby Every time I have gone to Tritton Road I have never had any trouble with going ... The junction at Doddington Road and Tritton Road has problems because of the trains ...

Article: 7. Tritton road retail park
Lincolnshire Echo;  June 6, 2008 ;     249 words ... ... Shoppers have certainly got a lot out of the retail development in Tritton Road in Lincoln. But the architectural merits of some of the newest buildings ... ugly buildings in Lincoln are the awful, characterless boxes along Tritton Road."

Article: 'Shops plan won't solve tritton road problem'
Lincolnshire Echo;  July 28, 2008 ;     336 words ... ... Drive, next to the proposed site of the Swanpool development "I think the whole thing is a bad idea. It's going to make Tritton Road a lot worse. It's bad enough as it is - Sunday is the worst day of the week. A bank of shops will not make a difference ...

Article: Top of the pecking order
Lincolnshire Echo;  January 31, 2008 ;     570 words ... ... in Searby Road, which sells only free range and Freedom Food ranges, and Morrison in Tritton Road remained well stocked. The Co-op, in Tritton Road, had no organic, free range or Freedom Food chickens on its ...

Transcript: FREE RANGE CHICKEN
ABC Good Morning America;  November 19, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... time of year, can get complicated. There's free- range, antibiotic- free, and even organic to choose ... It's the pricey variety of poultry called free- range. But what makes free-range rule? Nearly 20 years after we bought into ...

Article: Free Range Media Announces Streamed Media Tool ...
PR Newswire;  March 3, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... FRANCISCO, March 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Free Range Media Inc. today announced a Java ... media. As a part of this announcement, Free Range Media is previewing an early version ... manager of software products division at Free Range Media. "Equally important, it provides ...

Article: Free Range Media Announces Alliance With HP
PR Newswire;  June 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... SEATTLE, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Free Range Media, an Internet solutions provider ... In support of the Covision program, Free Range Media, HP and other leading Internet ... and launched the Covision Web site. "Free Range Media is excited to partner with HP and ...

Article: Free-range turkeys become increasingly popular.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  November 25, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Thanksgiving table, Hanley decided to go with a free-range turkey this year, buying hers from Whole ... National Turkey Federation in Washington. Free-range birds are allowed to roam free rather ... surveyed last year said they had bought a free-range turkey, Rosenblatt said. ...

 
 
Newsweek Harper's Magazine The Washington Post Chicago Tribune Crain's Chicago Business PRNewswire Pediatric News The Nation Advertising Age The Economist (US) A FREE trial gives you access to over 80 million articles! Access over 6,500 publications with a FREE trial!

Find articles, research, and archives