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Chicken Licken: The Market Speaks

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Back in January the Indy ran a story on the life and times of battery farmed chickens. As you might expect it didn’t make pleasant reading.

Now following the campaign against battery chickens The Independent reports an complete sell out of free range chickens in the UK.

Figures suggest that in 2007 the sale of battery farmed chickens fell by alomst 10 million birds whilst consumers bought 4.4 million more free range.

This is the consumer voting with their wallets and this is how it should be: a change in individual consciousness.

It’s also interesting the overall sales fell by nearly 5% suggesting that some consumers turned away from chicken altogether.  Again this is an outcome of raised awareness.

It just demonstrates what can be done when the consumer shifts.  

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