How to buy a happy chicken
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Britain’s obsessed with chicken - we eat more than a billion birds a year. And to (literally) feed our hunger, many farmers have turned to fast-growing birds. But now, a new initiative is persuading supermarkets and restaurants to try a slower-growing breed. Will it mean higher-welfare birds?
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Guest: Harry Wallop, Columist and Feature Writer, The Times.
Host: Luke Jones.
Producer: Olivia Case.
Clips: Internet Archive / Prelinger Archives / The Chicken of Tomorrow (1948).
Photo: Getty Images.
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