1. But the free-range, corn-fed chicken was the victim of a cruel joke.

2. The idea that a corn-fed Iowa boy could survive on rice and green tea scares them.

3. Corn-fed cows on industrial feed lots are another part of this dangerous food chain.

4. Even 100g of corn-fed chicken comes in with 129 calories and 4.8g of fat, compared with 135 calories but only 4.5g of fat in the same weight of a lean beef sirloin steak.

5. And, the corn-fed beef they eat contains a less healthy kind of fat than the fat in cows that eat grass.

6. But despite the higher cost of free-range, corn-fed and organic chickens, the experts could not tell the difference in taste.

7. Grass-fed beef is more eco-friendly than corn-fed, but supplies of it could never sustainably meet current consumer demand.

8. It also takes 13 times more land use to produce the same amount of beef in grass-fed versus corn-fed.

9. But they also eat it in greater quantities indirectly through corn-fed farm animals and the many starches, alcohols,[/corn-fed.html] and sugars made from industrial corn.

10. Consumer advocate Choice lined up a panel of four food experts to taste eight different roast chickens -- two organic, two free-range, one corn-fed and three regular factory-farmed birds.