Hoorah, more 'protests'. Last week a huge anti-chicken cruelty protest (well, 5 pink haired people and one lost old bloke) protested at the treatment of chickens by KFC whose offices (Chicken Cabins Ltd) are in Ilkley. The hippy/vegan/anarchist types with multiple piercings held up signs saying things like "Don't be nasty to chickens" and "Chickens are our friends", they also knocked on the office door and berated a bemused paper shuffler. Oddly, there isn't actually a branch of super tasty Kentucky Fried Chicken in Ilkley. The thing is about chickens, and I have some experience here, if you are not being nasty to chickens, they are being nasty to each other, chickens are just plain bloody evil. You have heard of the pecking order ? Every chicken has another weaker chicken it can peck, until you get one horrible pink thing wandering around the pen with no feathers because all the other evil bastards have pulled them out. They also have a go at anything smaller than themselves, we used to keep ornamental bantams and they got a right hammering, chicks too, and mice, the appearence of a mouse in the pen would generate a mass clucking free for all. As well as being evil bullies, chickens are also cowards, they are frightened by (and this list is by no means all inclusive) rain, wind, other chickens, ducks, food (what sort of dim beast runs away screaming when you throw them their dinner?), people, guinea fowl, golf balls (first they run, then they come back and peck, and will peck again every so often just to see if it has become food, duh), rabbits, tractors, etc, etc. Chickens are dim, chickens are evil, chickens are better off as KFC Bargain Bucket Meals, buy one now. Sadly the PWEETA (People Who Enjoy Eating Tasty Animals) home page seems to be down, but console yourselves with this.