Cheap chicken from fast-growing breeds could disappear from our supermarket shelves if a legal challenge to ban it on welfare grounds succeeds.
The Humane League has been granted a court hearing to challenge the Government over the legality in England over what it calls Franken chickens.
Law firm Advocates For Animals has brought the case on behalf of the charity which argues the use of breeds which grow unnaturally fast and large breaches law. In the UK animals can only be farmed if “they can be kept without any detrimental effect on their health or welfare”.
