>More actual cruelty is found in factory farming systems - I'd suggest.

Well, I`d suggest that cruelty should be stamped out - wherever it is found - wouldn`t you?

>There's certainly a massive disjunction between country and town.

Only in the eyes of countryfolk when town-dwellers question their barbaric ways.
You don`t here that argument in India, where they have more respect for other sentient beings.

;-)

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