True cost of living

[AtW]

Supermarkets use chickens like this as loss leaders.

Also don't forget about hens that are used to lay eggs - after a year they are discarded as they don't lay as many eggs, would not say the chicken for £1.50 was one of those hens (usually they either use chickens for meat or chickens for eggs), but who knows?

IMO, all means in this country are too expensive - especially fish.

[thunderlizard]

Interesting analysis Timberwolf. Economies of scale I suppose.

I think quite a bit of battery chicken food is the unsaleable bits of their former inmates (Soylent Green-style) so that would make it a bit cheaper too.

We once knew somebody who had the job of collecting battery eggs and wiping the poo off them. I think of him whenever I'm finding the contracting lifestyle a little unfulfilling.