THIS WEEK will see one of the most vitriolic attacks on the horrors of the battery chicken industry by two of television's most famous chefs, Jamie Oliver and Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall.

Both men are known for their campaigns for "real food" - as opposed to. processed junk stuffed with sugar, fat and salt - but they have joined forces to take up the humanitarian case against battery chickens.

These birds, bred to reach slaughter weight in just five weeks, are force fed in the dark, living in the space of a piece of A4 paper, often squatting in their own excrement.

The first blast again the trade comes on Channel 4 in Hugh's Chicken Run, in which Fearnley-Whittingstall creates his own battery farm to show just how evil they are.

And on Friday, Oliver - who has already forced the Government into improving school dinners - launches Jamie's Fowl Dinners, also on Channel Four.