intensive farming – Hinterland https://hinterland.org.uk Rural News Mon, 21 Jun 2021 06:12:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 A bird costs less than a pint: welcome to Britain’s poultry capital https://hinterland.org.uk/a-bird-costs-less-than-a-pint-welcome-to-britains-poultry-capital/ Mon, 21 Jun 2021 06:12:08 +0000 http://hinterland.org.uk/?p=13945 It seems slightly unnerving to me to think of so many chickens in one small section of counties on either side of the Welsh border. This story tells us:

The UK produced 1.7m tonnes of chicken meat in 2020, up 28% from a decade before. Meanwhile, the retail price of chicken is down almost a quarter since 2014 – meaning the average supermarket bird costs less than a pint of beer

Of the 1.1 billion broiler chickens slaughtered each year in Britain, about 25% are raised in Herefordshire and Shropshire, according to a PhD study by Cardiff University researcher Alison Caffyn.

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