buzz3's Opinions

I couldn't believe it. I heard Edith Bowman on Radio 1 talking about it on Wednesday. He has a little girl too, imagine what its doing to her. R.I.P we'll miss you

Yes, but there are far more people worse off than him who have not taken the cowards way out and struggle on to make things better. He was a coward.

Did you watch Jamie's Fowl Dinners last week and, if so, what did you think of the methods used to intensively raise chickens for eggs and meat? For caged hens (economy eggs), there's four or five birds to a wire-floored cage about the size of a microwave oven. The cage is 50cm wide and a bird's wingspan is about 76cm so they don't even get to stretch their wings during their entire life. The millions of male chicks hatched are either gassed or shredded to death in a mechanical macerator. For intensively raised 'meat' chickens, thousands of them are crammed in one shed with no natural daylight, standing in their own droppings causes hock burns (painful leg ulcers) from the ammonia and they are so cramped for space they hardly move. They are slaughtered at about 36 days old; a chicken in the wild can live 5 to 7 years. Surely it's worth paying a bit more for free range eggs and chicken to know the birds have had a better life. I noticed in the programme the women who said they couldn't afford it were all about five stones overweight - maybe they could show a little pity and cut down somewhere else in their shopping.

Sure, whats a couple of extra pence for eggs that are produced by happy hens. which have been treated well.

Both are equal, not much to chose between them at all.

either who cares they are both a bit dull really