The clock can hardly be turned back so far as to allow more than 200 million chickens to return to nature. But, says Yang Tien-shu, "there's plenty of room for improvement as far as reducing animals 'distress before slaughter is concerned." Yang says that over 50 % of pigs in Taiwan are still slaughtered by hand, usually without being stunned first.
時空不太可能完全回到過去，讓兩億隻雞都回歸自然，但對畜牧業，「減少屠宰前動物苦難這一步可以改進的空間很多」，楊天樹說，目前屠宰業仍有五成以上是人工屠宰，往往並未進行事先致昏即活活宰殺。