We like a nice piece of battered cod and chips here at Newbarn Farm, especially from Rio's in Brixham, by far the best you get around here these days. Well actually that's not true Richard my husband likes it but not me - I like the fish and I like the chips (occassionally) but I don't much care for the batter!
In fact we don't much care for batter used in a different context here at our Devon Fishing Holiday location - battered this, battered that, battery this, battery that. What about battery hens? Now I believe I cannot be alone in thinking that the subject of battery hens and indeed forced fed young chicks conjure up images beyond our acceptance of 'human 'rights.
If it is not alone enough for the consumer to say that actually eggs and indeed meat taken from a forced fed chick in inhuman conditions taste of well actually nothing - well maybe a bit of watery cardboard isn't sufficient in this argument (probably not dissimiliar to the pampas grass around our Devon Fishing Holiday lakes) . Incidently don't get me started on the global food price rises - how in the hell did our world get into such a mess? Greed, more greed and oh what a surprise more greed! Let's clarify that - not the let's fill my tummy I'm hungry bit - no, no no let's take what I can when I can and I don't give a diddle about anyone else's bit!
We are aware that different cultures have different culinery delights - and in some the taste of muddy waters can be a Wigilia delight! But not from our Lakes from our Holdiay Cottages & Fishing in South Devon.
Sorry I digress, battered, not battered, battery or not battery - we were talking chickens weren't we?
We have rescued 12 battery hens from a mid Devon rescue centre - and goodness me that was a good six weeks ago and they have had to stay mainly in the barn not because of the unpredictable weather but because most have only less than half the covering of feathers they should have. So they are scrambling around, in the protection of the warming hay, and in the Barn! Some of them were virtually bald - normal apparently for birds from this dark unnatural world!
But another six weeks and they will be foraging free within our 42 acres of pasture and woodland, plump, healthy and 100% feathered, they will be supplying you with your free range eggs when you stay at one of our Self-catering cottages & fishing holidays here at Newbarn Farm.
And we will be able to relax just a little that we have done a little bit to helping some battered creatures in our universe and indeed supplying a little food in the way that it was first intended.
It is only a little gesture in this odd world of cruelty fueled by price wars and something maybe a little more sinister! But we feel we do our upmost, we try with a recylcing centre, composters, energy saving bulbs, looking after our wildlife, rescuing some doomed chickens and supplying some great self-catering cottage & fishing for you here in England.
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