I think its morally wrong to eat an animal raised in this way.
I eat chicken only when I can afford it (maybe once a month). I use the whole chicken and boil it for stock.
The rest of the time I eat vegetarian food (my dh is vegetarian).
Everyone in this house eats what's put in front of them - or they go without. At least one night a week we have beans and cheese on toast.
We have two chickens in our extremely tiny courtyard (for eggs)
Noone has a right to eat anything (just like noone has a right to designer clothes and fancy cars)
20 years ago meat was a luxury and people ate it once a week - chicken for Christmas was more usual.
This cheap food malarkey (did I really use that word) has forced us all to think that food should be cheap. Food should not be cheap as that means costs of unfair wages to workers and particularly farmers - food used to be the biggest expense after household.
Now the average family spends more on 'entertainment' crap than food. It is quite simply wrong, everything you buy is a political decision, from the £2 top in Primark to buying Nestle goods.
Our food budget is the right proportion of our income (low income), we take no fancy holidays, have a cheapy car and buy no gadgets
And we try hard not to exploit anyone by buying cheap shite we don't need.
We don't always get it right but we make a real fucking effort to go through this life causing as little harm as possible.