A Midlands businessman has been jailed for three years having made a £3m profit by fraudulently passing off 100m battery farm eggs as free range or organic. The criminal deception lasted for two years and raises questions for the food industry about the checking of suppliers. The battery eggs sold by Keith Owen ended up on the shelves of supermarkets including Sainsbury’s and Tesco.

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To hear the sound of seventeen hens
pecking at corn on a still evening
is to hear the sound
of a herd of horses
stampeding
rhythming and driving
so distant, so far away.

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