Araucanas on the way!
We get two more hens this week, both fantastically strange-looking and sideburn-endowed Lavender Araucanas. This brings our total to 10 birds. Chickens are addictive!
tags: araucanas, chickens, hens“We don’t give a shit about chickens,” say Tesco shareholders, “now give us all your money!”
It shouldn’t really come as a surprise that Tesco shareholders yesterday chose to reject Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s call for the company to adopt new and compassionate standards for rearing birds. They ignored the moral and ethical arguments in favour of what they presumably thought was the best way to keep the money rolling in. The fact that less than 10 per cent of the shareholders voted in favour of change simply goes to show that they’re a callous bunch of bastards who care about very little other than money. And let’s face it—Tesco does make them an awful lot of money, at least for the time being. But times change, and anyone with a conscience should now boycott the store chain and shop elsewhere.
tags: animal cruelty, broiler hens, chickens, corporate greed, diet, excuses, fat, food, obesity, shareholders, supermarkets, TescoNanotechnology joins GM in fucking up the food chain, while the RSPCA rubber-stamps animal cruelty for supermarkets
The chicken meme is riding high across the planet. On the same day I discovered, courtesy of a friend pointing me to this video, that the RSPCA fails miserably in its duty of care towards the nation’s animals by providing Freedom Food certification for chickens that are far from being free-range and healthy, I also found this story about how, in the US, nanotechnology is to be employed to deal with the nasty diseases battery and broiler hens carry due to their unsanitary and overcrowded living conditions.
tags: animal cruelty, antibiotics, battery hens, broiler hens, chickens, free range, Freedom Food, GM food, lies, nanotechnology, public deception, RSPCA, supermarkets
