The chicken Edwina, who is executed early in Chicken Run (2000) after she stops laying eggs, was named after Edwina Currie, the former British health minister.
The name is a tongue-in-cheek reference to Currie’s infamous 1988 salmonella controversy, when her warning about contaminated egg production caused egg sales to collapse, millions of hens to be culled, and earned her the nickname “Eggwina.”
Even though it’s a family animated film, this scene is surprisingly heartbreaking.