Slow-food producers regulated to extinction

IN his letter headlined ‘Suffering chickens not good for our health’ (Irish Examiner, November 30), Gerry Boland wrote of the plight of 50 billion chickens worldwide cramped up in windowless sheds and beset by disease.

This is the price to be paid for cheap food. The farmers who produce them are probably not wealthy.

Even in Ireland, chicken farmers keep their fowl in overcrowded conditions, administering constant medication in an effort to keep them growing fast enough and disease at bay.