Subscribe to AfterDawn's weekly newsletter.
Caterersearch.com Exclusive: Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall Calls on Hospitality Industry to Switch to Free-Range Poultry
LONDON, January 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Caterersearch.com (http://www.caterersearch.com) publishes an exclusive webcast with writer and broadcaster Hugh Fernley-Whittingstall in which he urges consumers to switch to free range chicken. The River Cottage chef whose campaign against intensive farming on Channel 4 has driven nationwide debate over the past fortnight invited the Caterer team to his home so he could extend his appeal to the hospitality and food service operators. He tells Caterersearch.com's sister magazine Caterer and Hotelkeeper "Cheap chicken has become a bread-and-butter product in the catering industry because a lot of outlets expect to make quite a big margin on it." "It's one thing to challenge individual consumers to give up intensively reared chicken but it's also an issue where anyone in the business of selling chicken has to take a stand," he said. But he warned that this was not a message just to the lower end of the catering market. "In some cases I know chefs, not naming names, at the very high-end sector who are not using free-range birds. Some of them are on the road to Michelin stars." Watch the video on Caterersearch.com (http://www.caterersearch.com): http://www.caterersearch.com/Articles/2008/01/23/318315/hugh-fearnley-whittingstall-calls-on-industry-to-switch-to-free-range-poultry.html Contacts: Reed Business Information for Caterer and Hotelkeeper Gill East +44(0)20-8652-8825 Gill.east@rbi.co.uk
