THE CHICKEN WAR
was surprised that last week's Spectator carried no letters of reproof for Dr. H. Stuart Hogg whose cogent condemnation of broiler houses you printed on August 30. 1 expected to read this week that:
(1) Broiler-house creatures enjoy a life of ease and luxury and have every want assiduously met;
(2) Broiler:house produce is quality food;
(3) Britons must not grumble about the broiler- house' food on their plates because of the starving millions of the world. (This plea reminds me of being told in the nursery, 'Now eat up your food. like a good girl because there are hungry little children who would be glad of it,' an arguinent which I still find unchristian and illogical.)
Can it he that the apologists for scientific farming, cruelty and the mass produCtion of third-rate food do not read the Spectator?' If so, please accept my sincere congratulations.
GWENDOLEN HARPER
Sea House, North Foreland Avenue, Broadstairs, Kent
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