The Modern Chicken

Free-range, organic and corn-fed chickens are now widely available and, as well as the obvious ethical advantages, have a better flavour than intensively farmed birds. Free-range chickens can be identified by a label stating that they’ve been reared humanely with room to roam. Corn-fed chickens have a yellowy skin and flesh, but are not necessarily free-range. Organic birds are usually free-range and have not been fed the antibiotics given to battery-farmed chickens to prevent disease in their cramped conditions. You will pay more for any of these varieties but this should be compensated for by the quality and taste.