Video Nasty

20/12/10 -- A bankrupt Russian poultry firm, responsible for producing more than half the chicken in the Kursk region of the country, ordered the wholesale slaughter of more than a million chickens over the weekend after they ran out of money to buy feed.

According to this report in the Moscow Times, they then posted video footage of the mass inhumane slaughter on YouTube in a bid to obtain state aid. I've a feeling that the state aid they are likely to get may come in a .45 calibre* format:

I think I'll just have the salad

* Which reminds me that I read that the Russian State Circus have just fired their human cannonball act. They'll find it hard to replace a man of his calibre methinks.