<P> At each later stage (harvest, threshing, milling the wheat into flour, and baking the flour into bread), the hen again asks for help from the other animals, but again she doesn't receive any help . </P> <P> Finally, the hen has completed her task and asks who will help her eat the bread . This time, all the previous non-participants eagerly volunteer, but she disagrees with them, stating that no one helped her with her work . Thus, the hen eats it with her chicks, leaving none for anyone else . </P> <P> The moral of this story is that those who make no contribution to producing a product do not deserve to enjoy the product: "if any would not work, neither should he or she eat ." </P> <Ul> <Li> A Disney - produced Silly Symphony called The Wise Little Hen uses this tale as its basis . This version features Peter Pig and Donald Duck (in his debut), instead of the cat and the frog from the folk version, as the ones who decline to participate in the preparation of the bread . </Li> <Li> Politically - themed revisions of the story include a conservative version, based on a Ronald Reagan monologue from 1976 . The farmer claims that the hen is being unfair if she does not share her bread with the other animals and forces her to share her bread with those who would not work for it . This in turn removes the hen's incentive to work resulting in poverty for the entire barnyard . An alternate version reimagines the tale as a satire on capitalism, with the hen promising slices of bread in return for work, but keeping the largest share for herself despite doing none of the work . Malvina Reynolds gave a twist to the story by making it a pro-work, anti-shirk socialist anthem, with the worker hen retaining all the fruits of her labor: "And that's why they called her Red ." </Li> <Li> The Little Red Hen was featured in episode 14 of the animated series Super Why! In the book, the animals who decline to help the Little Red Hen make corn bread are a dog, a cat, and a duck . Super Why changes the ending by having the three animals help the Little Red Hen bake the corn bread for her chicks and later joining her in eating the corn bread . </Li> <Li> Jerry Pinkney's retelling in picture - book form The Little Red Hen was published in 2006 . </Li> </Ul>

The moral of the story of the little red hen