Chickens

My husband and I where watching River Cottage Spring this last week on Channel 4. A fact was brought up and I haven’t been able to shake it. Did you know that a chicken thigh has 100 more calories then it did in 1973? That is just the thigh. Modern farming is not only making chickens fatter, its making us fatter too.

I have been in the UK for 5 yrs now, so I can no longer comment on the US and their practices, but things in the UK have been moving more and more free range. When I first moved here I could rarely find free range. Now most eggs are free range and most of the stores carry free range chickens. People seem to be understanding that how we farm an animal directly effects us. Unfortunately all this is coming at a time when food prices are sky rocketing. Great.

If you want to learn more about free range chickens and why it really is a better option and healthier too then I recommend that you check out Rivercottage.net.

We really need to understand what is being fed to the animals we eat, what is being put into the food we eat and the effects its having on us. As someone who has battled weight my whole life I can say that it has made a massive impact on my life. Hidden calories are everywhere. I know that corn or corn by products are in most US products, even things that they don’t need to be in like canned tomatoes, and all those hidden calories are killing us.