Point taken. But I'm not too sure about this line of "I want to make sure that the animals I'm eating had a happy life before they were killed so that I could eat them".

I sort of feel that one should either be a vegetarian or accept that eating animals is what I do and all of this "nice treatment before the die" is a bit of a way to salve our conscience.

I know that it's more complicated than that and that there are shades of grey -- not least the relative taste of the chicken.

PJ