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.
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