Chickens are synonymous with cowardice. Is it time to stick up for our feathered friends? | Adrian Chiles

After Peta’s call ‘to reject mischaracterisations of chickens’, I wonder what they would make of Polish representations of polecats and Croatian cuckoosChickens don’t have it easy. On top of living largely crap, short lives, they endure the ignominy of collectively being a byword for cowardice. The campaign group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) has written to the…