Not many people know this but I was used to work on a farm. Not for long. In fact, just just for an hour or two, really. I helped stock a few sheds with day-old baby chickens that would be on a sanitary towel and under wrap in a chiller cabinet six weeks later. This is what they look like when they're a day old.
We all know what they look like at the other end.
Which is why I was so happy to hear Marcus Brigstocke's rant about chicken on
this evening's Now Show. (~18 minutes in). It was superbly offensive but made a point that really needs making. It's more important to eat a small amount of something that tasty that you made yourself than to gorge on plastic-wrapped packet food. I'm glad I was eating a crispy, tart apple while I listened.
I loved the beard joke, too.
Hurry and download it. It's a topical show and the MP3 will disappear in a week if it's not picked up an archived by the wonderful
Speechification blog.
Updated
I published and straight away noticed
this great post from
penguinmad. I am incredibly jealous. I always wanted to keep chickens when I was a kid but my parents didn't let me because we had so many foxes in the garden. Now I live in a 5th floor apartment I can't keep chickens.