References in Popular Culture
English rock band Radiohead makes a poetical use of the term "battery hen" in the eleventh and final track of its 2001 album Amnesiac, titled "Life in a Glasshouse". Together with the allusion to "frozen food" in the same verse of the song, the term suggests, in Radiohead's poignant manner, the similarity between mass production of food and animal mistreatment on the one hand and human contemporary alienation on the other hand.
Read more about this topic: Battery Cage
Famous quotes containing the words popular culture, popular and/or culture:
“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“It is clear that in a monarchy, where he who commands the exceution of the laws generally thinks himself above them, there is less need of virtue than in a popular government, where the person entrusted with the execution of the laws is sensible of his being subject to their direction.”
—Charles Louis de Secondat Montesquieu (1689–1755)
“Our culture still holds mothers almost exclusively responsible when things go wrong with the kids. Sensing this ultimate accountability, women are understandably reluctant to give up control or veto power. If the finger of blame was eventually going to point in your direction, wouldn’t you be?”
—Ron Taffel (20th century)