Opinion: To the point - Food with feathers on

I am working in South Africa for two months, while seeing my grandchildren. South Africa is full of contradictions - great wealth alongside great poverty, sophisticated modern living alongside deeply entrenched rural traditions. My grandchildren cross these divides. My grandson told me with pride this story about the slaughter of his first chicken: 'You have to slaughter an animal because it is part of being a man. You dig a hole, and cut the chicken over the hole and the blood soaks into the earth for...