Put the spotlight on pigs and chickens

SEVERAL issues relating to animal welfare and animal rights have been in the news recently, among them the exposure of the notorious puppy farms, the ongoing campaign to ban live farm animal exports, and a more recent campaign to end the exportation of horses for slaughter abroad.

But there is a much larger issue waiting to be exposed: the institutional cruelty at the source of over 95% of our pig and chicken meat the factory farm.

I know from experience that many of those employed in the media have little regard for the animal rights lobby, dismissing them as extreme and out-of-touch.