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Originally Posted by polly
I think a lot depends on education, research shows that the better educated a person is the more likely they are to care about animal welfare and food quality. Basically the more knowledge you have and the more one is able to process the information the more likely you are to make a conscious decision not to exploit other creatures for your own wants.
Notice I say wants as there is no need for chicken or any other animal product. Humans can live, some would argue more healthily without any animal products.
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People who are better educated (as in watch tv read newspapers all about battery farming etc) still buy the cheap stuff because it saves them money - probably because they dont have the money to buy the expensive (free range, organic etc) as they are paying for expensive mortgages, little johnnys skiing lessons, little pollys horse riding lessons and pony stabling fees etc, or maybe its because they are a one parent family with 2 kids surviving on benefits, or maybe its a pensioner whos surviving on a pension each week deciding which bill to pay this week. Its not a case of better educated people its a case of what people can afford to pay. Why pay more for something when you can buy a chicken that will feed you and your family for 2 days for the price of one that will just about feed your family for 1?