skweek wrote:I like meat.
Meat comes from dead animals.
To make them dead you have to kill them.
The only way to stop this 'inhumane' process is to stop eating meat. They're bred to be slaughtered you know that right? They're not pets, they live solely to get fatter then get killed. If you can't accept that then you need to go and have a long hard think about eating meat, instead of going "Look at the poor defenceless chicken!" and continuing to much down on your Colonel's Variety Bucket.
I might've misunderstood something, but I think you're missing the point.
The point of the programme was not meat = bad or killing animals = bad, it was that there is some sort of obligation to treat the animals we kill humanely, and that by any normal standards, chickens are not currently treated that way.
One of the main reasons that chickens aren't treated humanely is because people don't understand how the process works. If they did, as with eggs, they'd be more likely to buy higher-welfare-standard products.
Incidentally, I'm not sure if anyone grasped quite what a big deal it is that Hellman's are moving to free-range eggs. That's MASSIVE, because if they can do it, anyone can; the consumption of egg in things other than shells (through dried or liquid egg as an ingredient in pies, pastries, cakes, sauces etc.) exceeds the fresh egg sales (which have declined massively over the last 20ish years).
It means that there's scope for the eradication of battery cages not through legislation, but through informed customer choice/pressure. And that means there's scope for the poultrymeat market to go the same way (even though it'll take years to get there).
[EDIT]I personally never thought that was on the horizon, because I generally think consumers are idiots (and I still don't think there's any excuse for the level of ignorance about the origins of their food displayed by the people Hugh and Jamie have had on t'telly this week) but this is promising...
Simon
