Reply To: Meat eating and the flexitarianism

“what they really love is chicken”

Especially when served in the shape and form that does not resemble a chicken in any way. But we prefer all our meat like that. I recall when butchers hung their produce from hooks  and you saw them chopping and cutting. Long way from the supermarket plastic-wrap.

Of course we have to wonder why factory farms rarely permit visits from the public. I have been to a battery farm, not caged chickens, except when being transported to the slaughter factories. I asked why these over-loaded trucks drove so fast and it was for cooling and ventilation.

Members of my wife’s family worked at a chicken farm, or should that be chicken sheds since it was nothing like a farm. They regularly suffered outbreaks of disease that put them out of work for months at a time.

But my Labrador has a nasty habit of snatching free-range chickens from local farmyards.

But Gates recommends keeping chickens as a solution to poverty. Maybe, rabbits might be better , or guinea pigs for urban high-rise balconies