…be thankful you’re not a chicken, as food expert Russell Sprout reports that a campaign has been launched to discourage us from eating large eggs due to the pain suffered by a hen in giving birth to the breakfast-table whoppers.
I remember Chris Evans saying some time ago on Radio 2 that when a battery chicken stops laying eggs due to the stress caused by the conditions it’s kept in you can buy the live chicken for only 50 pence. The chickens are officially known as rechargeable chickens, and with a bit of care and attention the happy chicken will once again start laying eggs.
So in Tesco’s you can buy two dead chickens for £5, but you can get two live chickens for £1; now that’s a bargain, and into the bargain an average chicken lays about 260 eggs a year, so for the minimal cost of 50 pence and a bit of grain you have enough fresh eggs to keep you in a permanent state of acute constipation.
I've heard it said about my blog.
