"Both men took off running and then they realized they each thought the other was the farmer, but they were both there to steal achicken, " van Hylckama Vlieg said.
Readers may recall our piece early last year on the role of English chickenfarmer Antony Fisher in instigating and inspiring this work, carried out today by a welter of organizations at the international, regional and national levels.
For all three the arrangement is like the one that governs chicken production in the U.S., with a giant corporation supplying inputs to a small farmer and then picking up the output at harvest time.