The Chicken or the Egg

Chickens, free range or caged, that is the question.

Or is it?

Have you noticed that many people are very concerned about the welfare of chickens, or at least they claim so.

Mostly I believe them because so many of them fork out extra dough for the eggs from the less constrained hens with frequent flyer points.

But, and this is important, you don’t hear the same debates raging about the chickens that we eat. 

Free range or caged? No one cares.

Odd really. 

My bet is that even the dullest concerned person would be aware of the hypocrisy inherent in worrying about the welfare of the animals that we are about to eat.

Which only serves to highlight the hypocrisy associated with worrying about the ones that we don’t.