Why Is Tesco Being Called A "Monolithic Chicken Abuser"?

A great letter to the St Albans & Harpenden Review today. Local reader Alex Walsh takes Tesco to task over its response to the campaign of Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall to improve battery chicken rights. He comments,

"I'm no hemp-wearing nettle tea-drinking hippy type, but I was outraged when I read in the pages of a Sunday newspaper that Tesco is charging [Fearnley-Whittingstall] £86,000 to put a question about the treatment of battery chickens to its shareholders - an action he is being forced to take because the monolithic chicken abusers won't actually talk to him directly.

"Is this really the sort of company we want operating in the heart of our fair city? I for one think not."

Thanks for the letter, Alex - and also thanks to Simon Grover of the St Albans Green Party for his letter rebutting Michael Kissman's comments in the paper 2 weeks before.

(If you'd like to find out more about Tesco and chickens, check out www.chickenout.tv here.)