chicken breast meat from the supermarket here costs $23.99/kilo , so $23 for a whole fresh chicken seems like a good deal to me.

I think chickens in the store are generally around $8 here. For a 'chicken' - the kind that's genetically created to have giant breasts.

that's pretty much in line with what I usually pay, but I only ever buy decent organically reared birds

we've pretty much lost touch with the value of real food in our endless quest for bigger, more and cheaper

yea, exactly. Food Inc was a real eye opener.