Infamously, Oprah was sued a few years ago by Big Texas Beef, for allegedly slandering their product, when she gave the floor to an expert on health issues with beef, and exclaimed, "I'll never eat hamburger again!"

This time, perhaps, her lawyers assured her that Big Chicken could not touch her in court.  Or else, perhaps, she is beyond caring about that sort of thing.

Nice blog, Anna!

My dentist's wife just lent me the spectacular WWF publication, "Vanishing World: The Endangered Arctic," with images of animals etc. by Mireille de la Lez, and text by her husband Fredrik Granath.  She is presumably French, but he is Swedish, and they live in Stockholm.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.

Oh, don't buy her magazine... it's really not all that worth it.  Most of the stuff in there you can get from her website and not waste all that super glossy paper to boot.

Thanks very much, Karen.  Not having followed that case, I did not know about Oprah's admirable co-defendant, Howard Lyman.

Hopefully, in the American legal system there is by now enough precedent to make charges of libel, by reason of "defaming" a product, extremely difficult to prove in court.

George Bush #41 got the broccoli growers upset, didn't he, when he made it known that he did not like broccoli.  That is not at all the same as libel, and there was no possibility of a law suit; nevertheless, as a Republican politician, he felt some pressure to apologize to a sector of the business community.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.

Thanks Caniscandida for your nice words.

I read somewhere that young people nowadays think that beef  etc that are found in supermarkets are made in a factory!