Hugh's Chicken Run (2008)
• January 7th, 2008
Documentary
Overview
Hugh's Chicken Run was a programme as part of Channel 4's 'Food Fight' series in which celebrity chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall launched the campaign to encourage more consumers to demand free range chicken. Hugh was joined on the campaign by fellow celebrity chef, Jamie Oliver, who chose to highlight the issues in the more graphic Jamie'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 the whole fresh 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. A poll carried out for the RSPCA, 73% of adults claim that they now only buy birds that have "higher welfare" conditions, such as the RSPCA's freedom food scheme, free range or organic
TV Shows Link coming soon!!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Tiger King
Released on: 2020-03-20
Documentary, Crime
A zoo owner spirals out of control amid a cast of eccentric characters in this true murder-for-hire ...
Between the Wars
Released on: 1978-04-05
War & Politics, Documentary
This classic series follows the events that sparked the greatest conflict of the century, capturing ...
Big, Bigger, Biggest
Released on: 2008-04-01
Documentary
Big, Bigger, Biggest is a British documentary television series which began airing in 2008. A total ...
Wild Russia
Released on: 2008-12-24
Documentary
Through unprecedented access we showcase the spectacle that is Wild Russia. From east to west, via m...
How Do They Do It?
Released on: 2006-05-06
Documentary
An insider's look at the engineering and scientific miracles behind the things that form the modern ...
Walking with Beasts
Released on: 2001-11-15
Documentary, Animation
Walking With Prehistoric Beasts explores how life on earth first began. Using real footage, the seri...
Days That Shook the World
Released on: 2003-11-01
Documentary
Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two on 17...
Weird Travels
Released on:
Documentary
Weird Travels is an American documentary paranormal television series that originally aired from 200...
The Spartans
Released on: 2002-11-17
Documentary
The rise and fall of one of the most extreme civilisations the world has ever witnessed – one founde...
Hilary Duff: This Is Now
Released on: 2007-04-03
Documentary
Hilary Duff: This Is Now is a two-part MTV reality television series about singer Hilary Duff, broad...
John Safran's Music Jamboree
Released on: 2002-07-01
Comedy, Documentary
John Safran's Music Jamboree was a light-hearted Australian music documentary television series, hos...
Four Corners
Released on: 1961-08-19
News, Documentary
Four Corners is Australia's longest-running investigative journalism/current affairs television prog...
MythBusters
Released on: 2003-01-23
Documentary
MythBusters is a science entertainment television program created and produced by Australia's Beyond...
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage
Released on: 1980-09-28
Documentary
Carl Sagan covers a wide range of scientific subjects, including the origin of life and a perspectiv...
