Sometimes I think it does us good to go back to the basics, truthfully I think it ought to be a part of the school curriculum, how our food is grown and processed.
I opened a box of eggs tonight, and (for the USA foreigners reading this, here eggs are not washed; they come with their natural coating and don't need refrigerating) when I lifted the eggs our to put them in the rack there was a pretty wee red feather stuck in the box....and it made those eggs 'real' somehow. That somewhere a wee red hen had actually grown and laid this egg.
I felt kind of sorry for that wee hen, because free range or not, it's a short life of constant egg burden.
I don't think we appreciated chickens and eggs enough.
M