Great post - thanks.
We have our own chickens but they don't lay quite enough for us, or sometimes vacation from laying - so we occasionally find ourselves at the store, looking for a dozen from chickens we hope are treated like our own... it can be a semi-agonizing process.

I'd chip in a buck for a cheat-card were someone to make one.

There's got to be some kind of crossover between this and the news that another Memoir writer has essentially written fiction.

In Love and Consequences memoir a fake
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/04/wmemoir104.xml

Whereas one takes fiction and splices it into reality, the other takes what should have been reality/history, and splices fiction onto that.