Hens on the run: what’s so funny?
For those who do value a hen’s life (beyond her monetary value), the image of hens ‘making a run for it’ across a field was a poignantly sad one.
The hens were on their way to be slaughtered when the accident occurred. Up to that moment (assuming they came from the battery hen system of production), they had never seen the light of day, cooped up in crowded, windowless sheds.
