Poultry

While prices are on the increase, chicken still remains relatively affordable. But of all creatures, the chicken must have the lowest self-esteem. Not only is it often considered boring, bland, a “last resort” when it comes to cooking, those supplied to most supermarkets are battery chickens that have lived a truly terrible life. These poor things, classified according to age and size, have experienced everything from genetic modification (to produce abnormally massive breasts and thighs) to feed laced with antibiotics and growth hormones, which cause the birds to grow very big, very quickly. Their living conditions, sometimes even with promises of “free range” and “organic”, are horrendous. Chicken deserves better – a better life and more appreciation – because it’s an awesome meat (when of the highest quality). Well-raised chickens – real ones that know what the sky looks like and have eaten a normal diet for a domesticated farm bird – are delicious; those who’ve lived in horrifying conditions produce flesh that, I believe, tastes of its stress.