NSTleader If we want to be in good health, we must treat our animals well.
One we must learn very quickly is this: if we want to be in good health, we must treat our animals well. As we are a meat-eating lot the lesson is even more urgent.. Picture this: for every human on this planet, there are three chickens. And Brunei rules the roost with 40 birds for every one in the sultanate.The point is this: there is quite a bit of livestock farming going on in this planet of seven billion people. And most of it is intensive farming.Globally, some 1.
Animals are sentient beings, and they must be treated as such. But how? Give them the room to run and roam. Like us, they, too, have to at least walk that brisk walk. True, but that is short-term thinking. Instant gratification did nobody any good. Least of all businesses. In the long run, not treating the animals well will prove to be a lot costlier.
Like the foot and mouth disease which hit Britain and then spread to Europe in February, 2001. In Britain alone, some 120,000 infected animals were culled and burned in giant pyres, as one English newspaper put it.
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