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The ‘kycklingdebat’ or chicken debate is hot in Swedes’ minds since Svenska Dagbladet (SvD), on of the country’s two main dailies, published a long report on the short lives of the 74 million chickens annually born and bred here.

Swedes are eating more and more chicken meat and have been encouraged by both pundits and industry to do so, as chickens are supposedly more climate friendly than either pigs or beef cattle, notorious consumers of food and water. But SvD’s report may chill some hearts, as the findings point to