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'I can't get into the politics of food'

..quoted Delia Smith in today's Daily Mail.

'Fair enough' you might think, but that quote completly contradicts what she has said in the rest of the article. Today's headline on page 5 is 'Let them eat battery chickens'

I was completly shocked to see her picture alongside this headline, and I can only think that it is some sort of publicity stunt, to win/reclaim fans which she has recently lost to Gordon Ramsay, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Jamie Oliver. Her comments will be music to the ears of people like Hayley (the single mum on HFW's programme, she was involved with the chicken project but refused to buy Free-Range chicken) and just about anyone who thinks they are hard done by, I quote 'access to cheap chicken is crucial for poor families and pensioners.' Did she watch Hugh's programme? Did she take anything on board? You can give a hen a happy life for a an extra pound or so and Hugh and Jamie have proved that  a chicken can go further than a one off roast.

Delia's comments are disgraceful, how she can call herself a proffesional/celebrity chef and then condemn a battery chicken as nutritous food? Delia said 'We have got to make sure everybody gets enough nutritious food in the first place.' Cheap chicken is far from nutritious, it is fed so much rubbish and pumped with so much crap that there is surely no possible nutritional value to the consumer.

It is a shame to see such an influential person such as herself backing such a cruel and unruly practice. People tend to use Delia as a role model for their own home cooking, the Daily Mail reports that since her reccomendations in her column in Daily Mail's Weekend Magazine, Marks and Spencers have confirmed an astonishing 50 percent rise in sales of roasted yellow and red peppers. I am hoping that people give her latest ideas the boot, YOU vote with YOUR shopping trolley, buy Free Range or Organic chicken and eggs 

Delia has got what she wanted, publicity.

On a positive note the Daily Mail also reveals that that 'sales of Organic Chickens have soared by 36 per cent since the airing of Jamie's Fowl Dinners and Hugh's Chicken Run.'

I went to Tesco's last night, and I was pleased to see only ONE Organic chicken left it was not because they were understocked but they were selling out! Tesco need to order in more stock!

Thankfully I do not have any Delia cookbooks, but if you do please put them out for recycling or even better, start a fire!

Martin

P.S Please feel free to cut out the image and stick to dart board.

P.P.S You can read the whole artical here http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=514633&in_page_id=1766&ito=1490