The Daily Telegraph has reported that sales of organic and free range chickens have soared in the UK after celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver, dished the dirt on battery farming in his recent television programme.

Being in Australia, I haven’t seen the programme, but a week after the controversial programme was aired the major supermarkets have reported that their ranges of organic and free range chickens have, in some cases, gone up as much as 50 percent.

The TV show, Jamie’s Fowl Dinners, featured scenes showing battery-farmed chickens being slaughtered. It would be interesting to see if the programme has the same effect, as it eventually gets shown in other countries.

 Also if you are interested I posted an article on the blog a while back on the difference between types of farmed eggs.