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Article: Harnessing chickens
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- April 2, 1994
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A couple of years ago I spent a few days on the paradise island
of Mauritius. Palms, coral reefs, lagoons of sparkling blue - you
know the scene.
The best thing about the place was that it had every sort of
religion and race all mucking along pretty well. And I was struck
by the way that the corrugated tin micro- palaces in which people
lived were mostly powered by bottled gas made from chicken manure.
I was not thinking as laterally as I should have been, and did
not connect our green heaven with the tropical volcanic lump; but
Hereford is the chicken-plucking capital of Europe. Those farmers
who are unable to enrich themselves by selling land for housing
development have sheds full of ...