Chicken ‘poison’ comment ruffles a few feathers

ANGRY farmers last night joined Ireland’s largest supermarket chain in rejecting claims by a top chef that chicken sold in shops is akin to poison.

Over the weekend Dublin chef Kevin Thornton said he would not give factory-farmed chicken to his worst enemy, let alone his own children.

In a debate on supermarket chicken, he told News-talk radio: “I wouldn’t buy it [chicken sold in Irish supermarkets] and I wouldn’t give it to anybody because I would be giving them poison.