A landmark battle to improve the lives of Britain’s cheap supermarket chickens will start tomorrow in the high court.
About 90 per cent of the birds raised annually for meat in the UK are from fast-growing breeds dubbed “franken-chickens” which can gain up to 100g a day.
They also have a staggeringly short life - a journey that sees them go from egg to slaughter in just 35 days - to help feed the UK's billion chickens-a-year habit.
