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Jamie Oliver will be seen electrocuting and draining the blood from chickens and suffocating chicks, in front a live studio audience for his latest TV special.

Jamie's Fowl Dinners will be broadcast this Friday on Channel 4, and sets out to reveal the shocking truth behind the poultry industry, to encourage viewers to avoid buying battery-reared hens.

The programme follows the life cycle of a battery-farmed chicken, starting with the cramped conditions of the cages, and ending with their unpleasant deaths. In the course of the programme he shows male chicks, deemed superfluous as they do not produce eggs, being suffocated in an oxygen free box. He also electrocutes a chicken himself, and then drains its blood.

The chef carried out his demonstrations in front of an audience that included executives from the British supermarkets, in an attempt to persuade shops to pay more for organically and ethically reared chickens. Her revealed that supermarkets can pay as little as 3p for a chicken.

Oliver divulged he invited Asda, Tesco, Morrisons and Sainsburys to send representatives to take part in a debate for the show, although all four failed to send anyone.

He has since spoken out of his disappointment at this, particuarly towards Sainsbury's, as he stars in their advertising campaign.

He commented: 'What is there to hide? It is shocking that the people I work for didn't turn up on the day. I don't know why.'

Wednesday 9 January 2008

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I think the campaign run by Jamie Oliver & Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall is amazing and I can defintely say I will never again buy non free range chickens in a super market. Continue the great work!...
Comment by Katherine Aldous on January 09 10:06

Well Done Jamie! about time this was highlighted. Obviously the executives from Asda, Tesco, Morrisons and Sainsburys were a bit chicken!!
Comment by Tina on January 09 10:06

it is in our own best interests that we take note of Jamie, the ammont of chemical and hormone residue in these chickens are doing us no good at all. Well done Jamie for keeping these things in the public eye.
Comment by Lynda on January 09 12:59

Don't forget that the majority of cheap chicken is imported and/or used in ready meals - curries, pies etc. So it's not just a question of just buying nice chickens for roasting, but getting the supermarkets to reveal where the chicken is sourced from so you can make informed choices on all your meat products
Comment by veggie on January 09 14:27

Congratulations, more should be done to end this! Fantastic work.
Comment by Cristina on January 09 22:11

well.......
Me as a great animal lover is just SICK by watching this!!!
ofcourse its good to let the people(ooh the humans...soooo stupid)know that animals suffer in great deal....
but Jamie! my fuckin'god Jamie, you are AGAIN killing infront of people!!! you have NO problem doing it with u're own hands apparently!
Instead u could have shown some horrible films, already existing, of this horrid shit of animal torture.....but noooo you want to AGAIN kill a little more!
Why????to show off??? makes u feel sort of good secretly???

Piss off Jamie we already know that animals suffer.....so much 4 u're entertainment!
Comment by nathalie ten cate on January 15 00:01

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