UKs top chefs declare war on cruel chicken farming

Gordon Ramsay, once branded a 'cold-hearted animal hater' by PETA is to join fellow chefs Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall in a new show to air in that will expose cruel farming practices and encourage consumers to make more ethical choices when buying meat, eggs and dairy products.

The show, entitled the Big Food Fight is part of a Channel 4 season to promote healthy eating and let viewers in on the often unpalatable truths about where processed food comes from, including battery chicken farms. Coinciding with many people's new year resolve to live more healthily, the show and others in the season will promote organic, free range meat all through January.

The Guardian recently reported that (as you might imagine), it's Jamie Oliver who took the animal welfare issues presented in the programme to heart more than any of his colleagues