Topical Torchwood taps into social meme of animal cruelty


This week’s Torchwood episode, Meat, couldn’t have been more topical, dealing as it did with an alien being cruelly abused and stripped of its meat by men without conscience and greedy for money. Immediately after the broadcast we switched over to BBC News 24 announcing that a government survey has shown over a fifth of broiler chickens live their very short lives crippled and in agony. Talk about coincidence. Or maybe something deeper and more profound?

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Thursday, February 7th, 2008

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Boycott Tesco starting today, improve the lives of millions of chickens now and in the future


It’s time not only to stop buying cheap chicken because of the appalling cruelty involved, but to boycott Tesco stores completely after the supermarket giant stuck two fingers up this week at animal welfare and farming groups by cutting the retail price of its standard whole chicken to £1.99. This is, of course, because the Chicken Out (see sidebar, left) and other associated campaigns have led to more and more people rejecting cheap chicken in favour of free-range and organic.

The arrogance of Tesco is incredible and we can only hope this latest move to, as the chain would say, ‘give the consumers what they want’ becomes known for what it really is, which is an effort to give Tesco what it wants—which is every penny of your hard-earned cash, and to hell with morality.

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Wednesday, February 6th, 2008

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