Article: Harnessing chickens

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 ...

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