Thread: Free-range chicken sales make front page news AND The campaign that changed the eating habits of a nation
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Default Free-range chicken sales make front page news AND The campaignthat changed the eating habits of a nation
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> Free-range chicken sales make front page news 28 Feb 08
> http://tinyurl.com/23ayep
> The welfare of chickens continues to be front page news as consumers
> become increasingly concerned about how standard chickens are raised.
>
> The front page of The Independent clearly highlights how more and more
> shoppers are switching to free-range chicken since discovering the
> reality of cheap chicken production.

Consumers discovered no such thing. Consumers are
notoriously susceptible to touch-feely propaganda.
"Free range" fits their romanticized notions of how
they imagine chickens "ought" to live. They haven't
really thought this through, and they don't really
understand what "free range" means, and what it doesn't
mean.
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