With reference to my feelings on Battery Hen welfare, posted last September here I now bring you some pretty good news following a week of celebrity chef documentaries on chickens and chicken farming. Helmanns, who make the UK’s best loved mayonnaise, have announced that they will be introducing a free range line. At bloody last.
Meanwhile, my favourite Etonian, Hugh-Fearnley-Whittingstall, has been battling it out on the intensively farmed chicken meat bird front. And doing quite well too, I’ll have you know.
Support him please. It doesn’t take much, just a read of his site and a virtual signature. Animal welfare must come first. If you can’t afford free range chicken, then eat pulses instead–they are a lot cheaper than even the cheapest bird.
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on Wednesday, January 16th, 2008 at 7:28 pm.
January 16th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
Eh? What in the world is a or some “pulses?”
January 16th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
BTW, two of our household…which is comprised of two entities who can type and myriad who can only crow, squawk, and scratch, have signed…even though we are but your despised American friends.
January 17th, 2008 at 6:03 pm
Pulses = beans and large seeds. Kidney, black-eye, haricot, lentils, chick pea… The list is near-endless, and in their dried form they are a fantastic source of cheap protein. Unfortunately, many poor people over here wouldn’t consider using them except to put a tin of kidney beans into a chilli. They are just a bit too much like healthy food for their liking.
And thank you for helping with the campaign. Despised, you are not and never have been.
January 17th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
No, not us particularly despised, but Americans in general, by and large, are despised, with good reason, thanks to Bush.
January 17th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Ack, Bush is despised, yes. But most people over here (well, those I mix with anyway) are intelligent enough to realise that not every American voted for him and his ilk.
This coming election is being watched quite closely in the UK. Dunno that there’s anyone really worth rooting for (isn’t that the case everywhere in the so-called world of Democracy?) but almost any of them have to be better than the Smirking Chimp.