Jamie Oliver's restaurant fowls up

Jamie Oliver's restaurant fowls up (Image credit: Contract Number (Programme))

Jamie Oliver has scrambled his anti-battery hen message with the revelation his restaurant, Fifteen Cornwall, has been using battery hen eggs. Last week, Jamie launched a crusade on his TV show Jamie's Fowl Dinners in which he exposed the horrors of battery hen rearing. But The Mirror reports a farmer dining at the restaurant he founded was served battery produced eggs the same night the programme screened. The farmer took a picture of the eggs while being given a tour of the kitchen by a waiter at Fifteen. Jamie told The Mirror: "I am speechless. We have cast iron rules on what any chef can and cannot buy in all Fifteens. "I can't stop thinking it seems a coincidence this one-off has happened the week my programme airs. I've never been so disappointed. Heads will roll." It emerged that Fifteen Cornwall bought 360 battery-produced eggs when a regular free range supplier let them down. They were thrown out as soon as the farmer pointed out which variety they were.