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I think these programmes are great. I'm so glad these chefs are using their celebrity status to get the point across. Chefs in the past have expressed the same views, but now it's getting to a wider audience, which is great.

I can see Hailey's point- as a single mum on a really tight budget, she wants to give her son a good diet. She had fresh veg in her trolley, and to be fair she was buying fresh whole chicken to get more meat for her money, and not buying frozen processed junk. I'm glad they included her views in the show, they gave it good balance. She was of the view that the broiler chickens didn't know any different kind of life, so they weren't suffering per se. She knows it's not ideal, but that if they don't know what they're missing, they don't miss it. It's a harsh reality that free range is expensive, whether an extra two pounds would break her budget I can't comment.

The ideal situation to follow from this would be for the free range concept to reach a wider audience. The more people buy free range, the more chicken production will be switched from broiler to free range. It's slow progress, but I feel that the organic and free range movement is gathering speed in Britain, and I have to credit celebrity chefs for really pushing local and free range produce.

I don't eat chicken if I can avoid it, because I wasn't happy that even free range ones are killed in the usual mass production way, but now I'm thinking it might be better to support the free range movement by buying free range chickens. Hmm, still undecided. I wish they could all be killed like they were on the TV show, with a mobile slaughter unit taken to their own farm, a quick zap and that's it, lights out.