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A chicken’s life |
2008-02-09
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What's it worth ? 1.59 euro, if I believe my supermarket.
Of course, probably a little less, given all the Value Added along the Chain before it arrives in my supermarket, plucked.
1.59 euro. 6 eggs, produced by such a chicken, are more expensive than the egg factory that is a chicken. Even though the egg factory can easily lay 6 * 6 * 6 * 6 eggs in its lifetime.
I wonder if this makes farm animals have a pecking order amongst themselves. Do cows go, "you lowly chicken, 100 grams of my shoulder is worth all of you. I stomp on thee" ?
I'm so glad I'm not a chicken.
PS: don't worry friends, I'm not turning vegetarian.
Heh – I almost thought I was reading a post by Davyd.
Comment by Ed — 2008-02-09 @ 13:44
you have obviously been reading the british papers this month going on about the price of chickens in tesco and others.
Comment by Zaheer Abbas Merali — 2008-02-09 @ 13:51
I recently watched Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s Chicken Out TV show and campaign ( http://www.chickenout.tv/ ), which describes the chicken situation and prices quite well. The show is about the UK, my guess is that it is even worse in Spain.
Comment by Christof — 2008-02-09 @ 14:30
how long does a chicken usually live?
Comment by judy — 2008-10-29 @ 11:10