Le Gaulois, France’s largest industrial producer of chickens tries to defend themselves against complaints from animal welfare association PMAF. The fight is about this commercial:

The people at PMAF claim that Le Gaulois chickens would never be able to dance the French Cancan because they live permanently indoors, with a density of twenty chickens per square meter, and sometimes over 100,000 of them in a single hangar. Since the birds have no room to move, their skeletons become so brittle that they have to lie down 86% of the time.

The breeders counterclaim that the film is just an expression of humor and anyway, they follow the rules and don’t do anything they aren’t allowed to do.

I think I’ll stick to chickens that cancan dance.