Battery Chickens Live Lives Of Luxury
“THIS tiny space is about the area that a battery chicken has for 40 days of its life before it is slaughtered and sold for £2.50 in a supermarket,” says the Independent.
The Anorak looks at the dotted line and notes that “THE TRUE COST OF CHEAP CHICKEN” is madness.
With property prices such as they are, it is clear that chickens are being treated better than the many humans who can find no affordable housing and are forced into debt.
Indeed, if a chicken were given that much space in London, it would need to retail at £2,176 a leg to be economically viable…
Posted: 4th, January 2008 | In: Broadsheets, Food & Fat Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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January 5th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
True , many humans are hen pecked, live in cramped conditions, struggle to build a nest egg, are fed GM grain, topped up with anti biotics, never see daylight and suffer with flu.
Not many live above their toilet and have their beaks cut off though.