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There was a woman on one of the programmes about battery chickens that she didn't mind paying 50p more per head to eat 'ethically' after her visit to the battery farm. Even if it means giving up something else to eat one thing more ethically it'd make a difference.

I don't think there is any excuse, and as I posted in a previous thread on this issue, the government are talking about banning battery eggs, which would mean your going to be forced to eat ethically whether you like it or not.

Maybe you'll have to walk somewhere instead of using car/bus/taxi, maybe you'll have to leave the biscuits and cheese on the shelf in the supermarket, but there are very many people who live on such a basic diet that they have absolutely nothing they can change in order to order a packet of free range eggs.

Smartprice medium eggs are 73p
Asda Free range medium eggs are £1.19

For 46p difference, one chicken is living a happy and healthy life whilst another is living amongst its crap, and it you look at those cheaper chickens in their wrappings you can sometimes actually see where their skin has burnt and been damaged from walking through their own filth.

Cross referencing to the other thread about care homes, would you send your elderly relative to a care home where they'd live in dirty conditions and made to lie in their own filth because it's £50 cheaper? No, you'd find a way to make up the extra money, whether it meant you have to give up something or change something else you did.

The difference is that you don't know the chicken, and its only when its shoved in your face, as Grannyclaret has experienced, that it will make you change your ways. It shouldn't need to be put in front of you to make you see though when you already know its happening.