Pope Benedict: Chicken Lover

This is making the rounds of teh Facebooks today, courtesy of the Humane Society:

The quote comes from Peter Seewald’s second book-length interview with the Pope, God and the World. Our chickens have plenty of room and are treated like egg-laying royalty: lots of food and water and scratch, a nice coop with several laying boxes and fresh bedding … and they still all cram into a single corner to sleep.

I read Papa Bene’s quote to my chickens, and it made them happy. Here’s Ruby’s official endorsement: