RTÉ exposes appalling cruelties: Greyhound industry has run its course

There has been a huge evolution in consumers’ understanding of their role in how farm animals are treated. A growing number, for ethical or environmental reasons, are concerned about food production. They, correctly, see themselves complicit in the process. Some who can afford the premium use organic produce.

Others have cut meat consumption, many have stopped eating meat altogether. Others eschew farmed fish, others avoid all fish. Production ethics have assumed unprecedented weight. Arguments about production standards have been advanced by Irish beef producers trying to block the EU deal with South American countries which, they say, will allow beef produced under standards very different to those in Europe.