all I can think when I hear of a £2 chicken is what conditions that "unit" has lived in.
damn aldi damn lidls and morrisons and the other vultures happy to sell any old crap, that has lived and died in misery
If these are indeed UK grown birds then they will have been reared under some of the strictest and most stringent welfare conditions seen anywhere in the world.
The issue of it being a £2 chicken or a £6 chicken is completely irrelevant to the welfare conditions they will be kept in.
Whether you pay £2 or £6 for it will have no bearing on how it was reared.
We in the UK are on a different level compared to most other countries around the world in terms of welfare.
These birds are certainly not "any old crap" living in poor conditions, neither have they lived and died in misery.
The supermarkets you mentioned, Aldi, Lidl and Morrisons again all work to the highest possible welfare standards found anywhere in the world.
What is happening here is a price war on chicken (and other things) between the major supermarkets.
None of them will be making any profit from this, actually they may well be, its probably the producer that is taking the financial hit just now.
Either way, they are currently selling them as loss leaders, at a low price to steal customers from other supermarkets, they are not dropping the welfare standards to reduce the costs.