The whole intensive farming thing is sick, not just for the chickens - but the quality of meat you put in your mouth. It's bad Karma for the human race !
The sooner we can grow artificial meat in petri dishes for all those bothered by cost, the better. You couldn't be feeding yourself on a more un-natural freak of nature anyhow.
I don't eat meat, and I think these programmes have some trouble reaching out to people who need to see them most (ie It made little difference to me, i was just interested to see it)
I would like to know how many of the people of Axminster kept to their pledge.
If it wasn't for the intensive rearing of Animals I doubt I would have stopped eating meat, ie If my family had thought about getting free range and we had a good varied diet, I think it's less likely I would have cut meat completely out of my diet, but in my younger days not eating flesh was my only way of opting out of being part of the intensive farming cycle.
I only buy free range eggs (usually organic) the prices do make me wince, but c'est la vie. I can't buy the battery ones.