After several hours of this, learning the difference between a four-day-old horse and a cow carcass - the colour, smell, and muscle tone - the kind lady who showed us round, led us to a warm room where we could remove our hair nets and overalls and take comfort in a bowl of vegetable soup.

BBC: Horsemeat scandal: Noble animal at centre of Romanian life

Pilot studies had shown that what might seem an obvious fourth procedure, to tone down, rather than enhance feather colour, was too damaging to work.

ECONOMIST: Male birds cannot afford to relax their standards

Freeze-frame, slow motion, colour filters and smoke give the film a distinctly undigital tone, viscous and personal, that focuses attention on the excellent performances of Kyra Sedgwick, Parker Posey and Fairuza Balk.

ECONOMIST: New talent, new techniques