Wednesday, October 21, 2009

Happy hens


The flawed analogy of yesterday comes from Harriet Harman in her evidence to the Commons Treasury select committee inquiry into Sex(ism) in the City: "At the moment, if you buy an egg in a supermarket, you can tell whether a chicken has been happy in its life but you can't actually be able to know whether or not the employees in that company are being treated equally and fairly."

3 Comments:

Blogger kinglear said...

How can you tell if the chicken is happy? Did someone do a survey?

10:18 am  
Blogger Ellee Seymour said...

And is happiness relative to productivity?

5:54 pm  
Blogger Whispering Walls said...

Hi KL & Ellee - do you think battery hens are treated more equally than their free-range friends?

10:33 am  

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