Offal Good

Chicken Run

I’m sitting here on this rainy sunday watching the movie “Chicken Run” with my 4 year old son. He doesn’t realize it’s teaching him about the horrors of factory farm egg production. The movie is modled after “The Great Escape” starring Steve McQueen, but this time it’s claymation chickens who are plotting their escape from their evil captors.  Led by the fearless laying hen Ginger, the chickens in the coop are trying to escape the confines of the factory farm and make it over the fence to the freedom of the free range. Just like the prisoners running from their nazi captors, the chickens just want to fulfill their basic right to roam free. Fly, chickens, fly!