Which chicken should I buy? Free Range or Organic?

[BroccoliSpears]

Apparently Sainsburys doesn't sell a free range organic one.

Organic chickens are automatically free range, as far as I know. It's in the rules for chicken farming, I think.

Well I'd go for free range - so you know they've not been in cages all their lives. I suppose an organic chicken can have been fed lovely stuff but still stuck in a cage...

But your free range chicken might have been injected with antibiotics and fed horrible food....

I'd still go for free range though.

Yes, I would have thought 'organic' chicken would have translated to free range anyway.

I thought organic is one up from free-range, and tha organic chickens are automatically free range. Is that not the case?

Apparently the organic one has been "...Allowed to lead a full active life on an organic farm... "

What does that mean?

To be called organic, chickens have to have been free range.

Look here

Q: Are organic meat and poultry also free-range?

Yes. Soil Association chickens are truly free range, generally spending more of their lives roaming outside, in smaller flocks, with more space in their houses, and better access to fresh grass and air than non-organic chickens.

I'm not sure that is the case mesaloca
from what I have been looking through trying to find this out

It appears that to be organic they are not allowed to be caged but this does not mean they have to be allowed outside to pasture

I stand corrected...but that is only soil association ones

Ahhh but that's Soil Association. Sainsbos Organic isn't SA approved. I have rather more faith in the judgement of the Soil Association than in Sainsburys.

Even though there are various other authorities apart from the SA who give organic status, I thought that the free range aspect of organic chicken was the same across the board????

Well I've bought the organic one.

I don't even eat chicken so I won't report back and let you know!

A good rule of thumb is, the more expensive the chicken, the happier life it will probably have led!!

Organic automatically means free range as well, even if not Soil Association that will certainly be the case in a well-known supermarket chain who are required to meet certain standards.

Personally, I always buy organic. Then you know chicken has had a good life and not been pumped full of antibiotics. But obviously it is a matter of what you can afford.

my farmer matesays buy free range from local farms - don't worry too mych about the organic

FFS, we're not still on about fecking chickens are we?!

Well the one I had delivered from Abel & Cole the other day must have had the life of riley.

£23.00!!!!!

cluck off

Must have been huge though?

Knock me down with a feather!

£23?? Never mind being able to roam about freely, that bird was treated like fecking royalty!!

I am not going to wade into this discussion any further.

Blardy hell.

I can't afford principles at £23 a go.

3kg. It's certainly the biggest one they've ever sent me.

i bought a organic free range chicken from sainsburys where i live

I ordered a FR chicken from Tesco delivery, and it was substituted for a finest corn fed FR one - price jump from £3.50 to £8.50 !!!!!!! Although I was pleased to see they are selling FR at such a low price, and they had obviously sold out.

yep, our local sainsbury's can't keep up with demand at the moment too.

Good news for the chickens.