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Last Word: Hit or Diss?

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Piers Brown, 17, is from Wigan, Lancashire.

Free-range chicken? I say a HIT. Chickens and all animals shouldn't be contained in the sickening conditions seen in the media and shown by animal welfare organisations such as PETA. We shouldn't have developed into a nation where quality of life is lessened purely to maximise profits.

Carrying a knife? A definite Diss. Living in a culture of fear is terrible. Why is it that anyone, let alone young people, should have to carry knives for protection of their lives or, further, simply to be accepted into social groups. Are weapons that exciting that they define our status in certain groups? I certainly don't think so.

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