This is not a joke. Huckabee himself said so. When campaigning in Iowa, he talked about a horse meat sandwich which is one of his favorite Dutch foods, and that he apparently thinks "tastes like chicken."

A horse and a chicken are playing in a meadow. The horse falls into a mud hole and is sinking. He calls to the chicken to go and get the farmer to help pull him out to safety. The chicken runs to the farm but the farmer can't be found.

You can keep bees and chickens -- heck, even a horse -- if you have a permit for them in St. Paul. However, sugar gliders would become outlaw marsupials in St. Paul if the City Council forbids them as pets.

By 2007, the program will ask farms or households that house chickens, ducks, turkeys, cows, pigs, goats or horses to register with a database and obtain a 15-digit identification number and GPS coordinate. Beginning in 2008, animals under the proposal would carry a radio frequency identity, or RFID, tag.One part of the plan is not voluntary:

A Romanian company is accused of dumping 47 tonnes of animal carcasses on the outskirts of Bucharest. The carcasses are rotting amid heat of 38C, just metres from a main road. Piles of black plastic bags are stacked around the dump, with bits of chicken and even horse carcasses poking through.

Chicken Soup for the Soul is a series of books, usually featuring a collection of short, inspirational stories and motivational essays. The 101 stories in the first book of the series were compiled by motivational speakers Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen.There have been numerous volumes of Chicken Soup issued. As of January 2006, there were over 105 titles. Many of the books are directed at specific groups of people, e.g. Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul, Chicken Soup for the Prisoner's Soul, Chicken Soup for the Volunteer's Soul, Chicken Soup for the Grandparent's Soul, Chicken Soup for the Ocean Lover's Soul, etc.The first book sold over 2 million copies and launched the series. There are now over 100 million copies in print and in 54 languages world-wide. The Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul series (there are over 14 titles) is one of the first series of non-fiction books which have sold directly to teens in the US, Canada, the UK and Australia.The series has spawned a number of imitators and parodies including Chicken Soup for the Vegetarian's Soul, as well as a line of licensed products, including greeting cards, calendars, gift products, pet food, CDs, DVDs, and nutritional supplements.The name "Chicken Soup" was chosen for this series because of the use of chicken soup as a home remedy for the sick.The books are published by Health Communications, Inc.