Chickens are produced under conditions of torture and imprisiorunent. The small producer supplying healthy chicken in a decentralised way without burdening the environment is enslaved in poverty and dispossession. Even the elite consumers are enslaved by an inferiority complex that allows them to give up ecological and healthy pattems of consumption for environmentally destructive and unhealthy life styles. The chicken not imprisoned in the concentration camps of factory farming are free to feed themselves in free range conditions, they are free of disease and they are free of being exterminated on the basis of the diversity of breeds or sex. Producers are free of the costly inputs, drugs and chemicals that factory farming requires - thus small producers have the freedom to survive.
Consumers are free of the health hazards of factory fam-dng and fast foods.
They are also free of the cultural inferiority they are being subjected to by KFC propaganda whidi is leading them to give up the ecological and healthy food systems available to us in India for the environmentally and nutritionally unsound systems of industrial farming and processing. The KFC debate is about these deeper dimensions of freedom for animals and humans. It is not a trivial discourse about two flies.