factory raised chicken for meat. Have you seen those CAFO chicken operation or been near one. You can smell them mile away. And it has a very distinct smell that you can't miss. Well maybe a turkey house. Sewage treatment plant attempts to control the odor and do a pretty good job. commercial meat operation, it would cost too much.
anyway, here's my answer
1 SD; 2 SD; 3 SD; 4 SD; 5 D; 6 A; 7 A; 8 SD.
CAFO chicken operation is just as bad as pig operation. The so called free ranged chicken are a misnomer (miss named) because what the industry is allowed to call free range is a big farce. 10x10 open space next to the chicken house with tiny opening for 10,000 to 20,000 to use. Chicken in those bird house will NOT step outside for fresh air. Having that 10x10 space qualifies for free range!
Quality of meat depends on the genetic, what you feed, and the environment they are in. Chicken are omnivore like pigs. They will eat snail, slugs, worms, most other insect. I've seen them kill a voll or small mouse that wondered into the layer coop. They also will eat green plants, grass, kale chard when they escaped into our garden... The varied diet helps them with natural balance in the diet. Getting fed "balanced" factory formulated diet is still missing something. Stress of being cramped with the rest of 20,000 chicken in a chicken house is also very detrimental to the quality of the meat. Stress hormone makes meat less tasty!! And stress makes the bird more prone to illness and to death.
Factory chicken are slaughtered if they are still walking but the stress may have caused them to be very sick. No one is going to check to make sure that the bird is sick or not. If it's hobbling, good for slaughter. So you might be eating a chicken that may have been sick with bacteria or virus.
And to top it off, meaties are very dirty!! They poop on each other for a starter. They'll sleep in their own poop so that breast skin is sitting on poop/pee. Given a chance, these birds prefer to sleep on clean ground but when you have 20,000 birds in a chicken house with less than 2square feet each, there isn't a square inch in there without any poop. If you want to go into those coop, you have to be wearing your muck boots and a dust mask or else plan on getting really sick a few days afterwards.
Each 6 pound bird will go through at least 18 pounds of feed. 12 or so pounds of the feed becomes poop and all that poop goes onto an area less than 2 square feet. And it doesn't get cleaned out until the birds get shipped out to the meat processing plant.
anyway, here's my answer
1 SD; 2 SD; 3 SD; 4 SD; 5 D; 6 A; 7 A; 8 SD.
CAFO chicken operation is just as bad as pig operation. The so called free ranged chicken are a misnomer (miss named) because what the industry is allowed to call free range is a big farce. 10x10 open space next to the chicken house with tiny opening for 10,000 to 20,000 to use. Chicken in those bird house will NOT step outside for fresh air. Having that 10x10 space qualifies for free range!
Quality of meat depends on the genetic, what you feed, and the environment they are in. Chicken are omnivore like pigs. They will eat snail, slugs, worms, most other insect. I've seen them kill a voll or small mouse that wondered into the layer coop. They also will eat green plants, grass, kale chard when they escaped into our garden... The varied diet helps them with natural balance in the diet. Getting fed "balanced" factory formulated diet is still missing something. Stress of being cramped with the rest of 20,000 chicken in a chicken house is also very detrimental to the quality of the meat. Stress hormone makes meat less tasty!! And stress makes the bird more prone to illness and to death.
Factory chicken are slaughtered if they are still walking but the stress may have caused them to be very sick. No one is going to check to make sure that the bird is sick or not. If it's hobbling, good for slaughter. So you might be eating a chicken that may have been sick with bacteria or virus.
And to top it off, meaties are very dirty!! They poop on each other for a starter. They'll sleep in their own poop so that breast skin is sitting on poop/pee. Given a chance, these birds prefer to sleep on clean ground but when you have 20,000 birds in a chicken house with less than 2square feet each, there isn't a square inch in there without any poop. If you want to go into those coop, you have to be wearing your muck boots and a dust mask or else plan on getting really sick a few days afterwards.
Each 6 pound bird will go through at least 18 pounds of feed. 12 or so pounds of the feed becomes poop and all that poop goes onto an area less than 2 square feet. And it doesn't get cleaned out until the birds get shipped out to the meat processing plant.
