free range

Writing this here, as there it has sparked out of the Skeptoid threads where there is a limitation of space, but it is a subject that highlights some interesting points on how science is viewed, or at least assumed. Now what I am not going to comment on is the ethical issue of battery farming...

Thursday, I have to cover for someone at a VI centre where I don't normally work. I show up about half an hour late, to see a farmer offloading a couple of dead hens. I swear a bit because I hate hens, and where I normally work we usually manage to offload them because DEFRA has some real hen...

I'm fine with it.