Controversial Taste-Test Ruffles Welfare Feathers
UK - Controversy broke out this week when scientists claimed that a blind taste-test of eggs revealed that the public preferred battery-farmed chicken eggs to their free-range counterparts.
7 July 2008
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According to the Mail Online they found that the battery birds had a superior flavour and texture and were more juicy.
The results will upset the organic farming industry, which claims that the better welfare their birds enjoy leads to better meat - and justifies the heftier price tag.
They may also hamper the efforts of chefs such as Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall to encourage the public to go organic says the Mail Online.
The study, published in the journal British Poultry Science, was carried out at Bristol University.
