We have reduced, through mechanisation, the contact between “farmer” and livestock to the point where...

You know, I’m all for anything that keeps the farmers hands (and other extremities) off the livestock before I’m supposed to eat it.

How about I feel bad for the poor chickens just as soon as we’ve not just fed the hungry, but fed them to the point where they are busting a gut, farting, and begging for nothing more to eat—at least until the fourth meal.