No time for a recipe this week, but for those of you interested in farm animal welfare issues (and those of you who eat chicken), I wanted to draw your attention to a thought-provoking blog.
The Chicken Out 39 day blog, The short, unnatural life of a broiler chicken follows the short life of a factory farmed chicken straight from … Read the full post
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We’ve just returned from a few days in Provence where they have near constant sunshine in which to bask and also to grow sunflowers, lavender, olives by the field load. The Great British Summer in contrast is a fickle thing. Slightly disappointing, but not entirely surprising then, to come home to find the only species flourishing in the vegetable … Read the full post
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A sorry tale today, but one with a happy ending attached. It’s no news that battery hens are kept in horrible conditions with barely the space to turn round and nothing to do but pull each others feathers out. But the story of what happens to these unlucky hens next is less well publicised. Battery hens are hybrids, bred to … Read the full post
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Oats have a lot going for them. The soluble fibre in oats can help your body to get rid of excess cholesterol, something pretty much everyone can benefit from. I’m spending a lot of time working with people who have irritable bowel syndrome at the moment and it seems that oats are also one of the few starchy foods that … Read the full post
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