> eat chicken once in a while (both have very good feed to food conversion ratios [1]). Depending on your animal welfare ethics, I'm not sure that's the best m

> eat chicken once in a while (both have very good feed to food conversion ratios [1]). Depending on your animal welfare ethics, I'm not sure that's the best metric to optimise for. To get a good ratio, the animals' movement needs to be restricted and they need to be killed young. Hence, battery hens do very well.