The humble chicken

The world is getting smaller, populations are getting larger, developed countries eat too much meat, and substantial corporate ethical policies are few and far between. 

These are some of the main reasons that most of the chickens and pigs we eat today are products of modern intensive factory farming. As a nation, and as a world, we have to decide where we want to go now, and there are only two options. We either continue on the slippery slope of increasingly intensive farming, driven by price wars on the flesh of living creatures by retailers. Or we make a conscious decision to do the opposite, and drag ourselves out of the furious cycle of farming intensivation of recent decades.

The former is the easy option, the latter is difficult one. And it will be a difficult one. It requires sacrifice on behalf of the Consumer and the Corporations, a concept which is rarely popular.

But if Gandhi was right when he said that"[t]he greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated" then we've a long way to go if we want to be great again.