[snugs]

Dad is still tired but he is eating OK now so that is step in the right direction.

By the way we have cheap meat, chicken and there was a programme on UK TV a couple of days ago showing why it is cheap. The conditions the birds lived in was terrible including dead ones in with the live ones and injured and sick ones and often the sick and injured get slaughtered with the others and get used for chicken pieces. They also showed you how to look out for birds kept in that condition one of the signs is bits of skin missing or damaged that often means they have sat in their own urine and it has burnt the skin.

I ate chicken tonight and I must admit I thought about the programme and looked very closely at the skin.

[tommix2]

I quit eating chicken for that reason years ago. Besides, when I was a kid. our chickens ran loose and had a varied diet, and were delicious. Now chicken tastes flat.

[radiohead]

That's pretty disgusting. I wouldn't even want to imagine what goes on in our huge chicken farms over here.