Braveheart is actually quite famous, although he takes it all in stride. Brave has been featured in a film made for the MSU sesquecentennial celebration called "The Great Experiment" in this film Brave plays himself, the brave and nobel free-range rooster. He has also been featured on the cover of the Michigan Farmer magazine September 2007 issue. You see it seems that free-range chickens are newsworthy since now in the age of industrial agriculture over 90% of our chickens are confined in CAFOs or confined animal feeding operations. Which brings me to why I got into chickens in the first place. I am concerned that increasingly our students here at MSU don't understand the environmental, economic, and moral consequences of the food they eat. So, Braveheart and his girls have become great teachers. My students now see first hand what these beautiful animals are deprived of when they are condemned to live in a battery cage.
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