Same old, same old when encountering militant meaties


If TV chef Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall stuck to the mission of trying to persuade meat-eaters to eat only ethically-raised animals and even keep their own livestock for the table, reared well and allowed to live natural happy lives before being humanely killed, then this topic on the River Cottage forums wouldn’t, perhaps, have become so heated. Conscientious meat-eaters, vegetarians and vegans alike can at least surely unite behind such an aim. The less suffering there is, the better.

Unfortunately, though, while I am 100 per cent behind Hugh’s Chicken Out campaign, it irritates me a bit that Hugh is not only an evangelist for the ethical raising and killing of animals, but also, it really seems, for the consumption of meat by just about everyone. He has said, for example, that if you’re going to keep chickens in the garden for their eggs, then why not eat the chickens as well?

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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008

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