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I do have to say, I neither watch a vast amount of TV (the weather being a notable though possibly predictable and slightly dull exception) nor do I ever sign up to a campaign. However, for whatever reason, the Channel4 series “Hugh’s Chicken Run” has really got to me tonight.

Now please, don’t get me wrong, I’m as partial to a nice McChicken Sandwich or Chicken Royale as the next man, but I have to say this one has properly got to me. Call me old fashioned but animals should not be sitting in their own crap for two weeks before we plastic wrap ‘n’ roast ‘em and feed ‘em to our kids. I swear the programme has nearly sent me over the edge and created one more vegetarian on the planet – though I think the smell of a barbecue steak would always be my undoing and, besides, the kids would kill me if I single-handedly took sausage’n'mash (only Parminter’s finest bangers you understand) off the menu.

Either way, I would like to think we’re giving the kids the best possible food (for goodness sake, even our soppy mut of a spaniel, Oscar, gets dog food that wouldn’t look out of place on a dinner plate!) even if I still hanker after McTuckyKing’s best.

Clearly, should I distractedly stumble across a takeaway after a hazy evening of fine refreshment and gentle wit and repartee, I doubt I’ll be paying much attention to any single aspect of the delicicies on offer – in fact, probably the only consideration will be it’s propensity for filling a void – I shall, however, be sourcing free-range birds for every other purpose. Given that the farms in the Haddenham area also produce free-range stock, I reckon it’s not a bad thing for the local economy either.

Can’t be bad, now can it?

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