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I've read on SM that eating chicken is considered "clean" eating.
Mass produced chicken from costo living in crowded conditions, eating moldy grains and eating their own shit is NOT clean by any stretch of the imagination.
With tens of thousands of chicks packed into each building, the sheds become increasingly crowded as the animals grow larger. Chickens often have to walk on top of one another—and over the bodies of others who have died—to get to food and water. Chickens function well in groups of up to about 90, which is a number low enough to allow each bird to find his or her spot in the pecking order. In crowded groups of tens of thousands, however, no such social order is possible, and in their frustration, chickens peck at one another, causing injury and death.
The average chicken shed holds roughly 40,000 chickens. Most sheds are rarely cleaned, so massive amounts of feces accumulate and ammonia builds up in the air. The ammonia is corrosive and burns the lungs and skin of the birds, leaving many with lung diseases or festering skin infections. A Washington Post writer who visited a chicken shed says, “Dust, feathers and ammonia choke the air in the chicken house and fans turn it into airborne sandpaper, rubbing skin raw.”
Chickens are genetically manipulated and dosed with antibiotics so that they grow bigger and faster than they ever would naturally. Chickens’ breasts weigh seven times more today than they did 25 years ago, so that by the age of 6 weeks, many broiler chickens are so top-heavy that they can no longer walk. According to Feedstuffs, a meat industry magazine, “Broilers now grow so rapidly that the heart and lungs are not developed well enough to support the remainder of the body, resulting in congestive heart failure and tremendous death losses.” Workers often throw injured hens into trashcans, leaving the birds to starve to death.
Many chickens in factory farms get sick and die because of the cramped and filthy conditions. Instead of giving their birds more space and a cleaner living area, farmers mix large quantities of antibiotics into the birds’ feed in an attempt to stave off disease, but many of the birds still die. A U.S. Department of Agriculture study found that greater than 99 percent of chicken carcasses are contaminated with E. coli bacteria, largely because of the filthy conditions in the sheds where they are raised.
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Mass produced chicken from costo living in crowded conditions, eating moldy grains and eating their own shit is NOT clean by any stretch of the imagination.
With tens of thousands of chicks packed into each building, the sheds become increasingly crowded as the animals grow larger. Chickens often have to walk on top of one another—and over the bodies of others who have died—to get to food and water. Chickens function well in groups of up to about 90, which is a number low enough to allow each bird to find his or her spot in the pecking order. In crowded groups of tens of thousands, however, no such social order is possible, and in their frustration, chickens peck at one another, causing injury and death.
The average chicken shed holds roughly 40,000 chickens. Most sheds are rarely cleaned, so massive amounts of feces accumulate and ammonia builds up in the air. The ammonia is corrosive and burns the lungs and skin of the birds, leaving many with lung diseases or festering skin infections. A Washington Post writer who visited a chicken shed says, “Dust, feathers and ammonia choke the air in the chicken house and fans turn it into airborne sandpaper, rubbing skin raw.”
Chickens are genetically manipulated and dosed with antibiotics so that they grow bigger and faster than they ever would naturally. Chickens’ breasts weigh seven times more today than they did 25 years ago, so that by the age of 6 weeks, many broiler chickens are so top-heavy that they can no longer walk. According to Feedstuffs, a meat industry magazine, “Broilers now grow so rapidly that the heart and lungs are not developed well enough to support the remainder of the body, resulting in congestive heart failure and tremendous death losses.” Workers often throw injured hens into trashcans, leaving the birds to starve to death.
Many chickens in factory farms get sick and die because of the cramped and filthy conditions. Instead of giving their birds more space and a cleaner living area, farmers mix large quantities of antibiotics into the birds’ feed in an attempt to stave off disease, but many of the birds still die. A U.S. Department of Agriculture study found that greater than 99 percent of chicken carcasses are contaminated with E. coli bacteria, largely because of the filthy conditions in the sheds where they are raised.
Read More and See more pictures here:
thee_shadow: See! chickens! Awwww! So cute!!
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