The Meatrix
An animation about factory farming—and it manages to get several points across in just a few minutes. No mean feat! Personally, I think it’s brilliant.
tags: animals, environment, factory farming, food, meatThe Chicken Hilton Hotel
My beloved and I have been very busy over the bank holiday weekend (our cousins across the Atlantic will, of course, wonder what a bank holiday is—it’s when you get an extra day off work for no obvious reason at various times during the year—glad we, er, cleared that one up…).
We’ve built a huge (and I do mean HUGE) new enclosure for the chooks. They still have their original run inside it, so when it’s very muddy or otherwise grim in the weather department they will always have somewhere to shelter; plus, if we’re going to be away from the house, they won’t get to free-range within their new kingdom as there’s no roof, so keeping them in the original run on such days would mean they’re as secure as they can be in our absence.
tags: animals, battery hens, birds, chicken coop, chicken run, chickens, livestock, petsMEPs want to feed pigs to chickens - so let’s do all we can to stop it happening
Members of the European Parliament recently voted against transparency, choosing not to reveal to the unwashed masses how much they all claim back in so-called expenses. The system is believed to be widely and obscenely abused, but we’ll never know. We’re asked to trust these people. But hold on! There might be a reason for this madness.
tags: activism, animal feed, animals, Archaeopteryx, chickens, DEFRA, democracy, environmentalism, EU, fast food, Food Standards Agency, FSA, KFC, livestock, Mad Cow, MEPs, MPs, pigs, poultry, protest
