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Chicken soup, Beef and Ale Pie, Custard Tart. Nice menu - but how much do you know about the ingredients? With so much emphasis on consumer health - whether the meat or fish is safe to eat - the way that animals, birds and fish are slaughtered appears to take second place. Labels say little or nothing about animal welfare and neither are they a guarantee of quality. On some farms animals are able to enjoy a natural, healthy, outdoor life. But where they are reared on an industrial scale, poultry, cattle, cows, sheep and pigs are crammed by their thousands into vast sheds. Reared on feed that is high on fat and protein - an unnatural diet designed to make them grow as quickly as possible - they are turned into obese and grotesque forms of their natural selves as they become more stressed, crippled, and diseased. How might these farmed animals feel? How intelligent are they? Can they think? Do they suffer? Sue Cross presents the stark facts about animal welfare, giving a balanced view of commercial farming from the appropriate research and scientific evidence provided. It is essential reading for everyone with an interest in the origin of the food they eat.

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