The above crucified chook near the end of life on Earth , drawn by columnist and illustrator Peter Burleigh , contemplates what came first -the egg or the chicken?
Burleigh went on to say in the Bulldust Diary he kept on a road trip across Australia what a great debt we owe to the humble chicken.
How many of them , he said , had died and will die to keep us sandwiched, roasted, saladed and breakfasted? Yet we make jokes about them, call them cowardly, burn, boil and roast them.
If we ever need another religion based on an example of sacrifice, his vote was for the chicken. He hoped a talented poet would write a “Chicken Odyssey” some day.
(Burleigh . Chicken. Bulldust.)
