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I'd say it's not just the ethical treatment of animals, but quality also. Animals growing in cages are under huge stress and much more prone to diseases, so the

I'd say it's not just the ethical treatment of animals, but quality also. Animals growing in cages are under huge stress and much more prone to diseases, so they are often given a number of medications as a prevention. Their whole physiology is heavily altered. As they're never exposed to direct sunlight production of some vitamins is severely reduced in caged animals. They're fed special food to stimulate nesting, to make yolk more yellow, etc. It has to be highly concentrated and hormone rich to stimulate them laying unnaturally many eggs, from very young age.

est31 7y ago
> so they are often given a number of medications as a prevention This in fact leads to evolution of multi resistant germs which then leads to those germs landing on the meat products and finally on humans. If you are healthy this isn't a problem but if you get an infection by those germs, treatment options are greatly reduced. The US has a massive resistant germ problem, and it's partly caused by laxer regulations aroud antibiotic application in industrial animal farms compared to the EU where there are strict regulations and the resistant germ problem is smaller. So yes, if you eat that kind of meat you are directly exposed to a major health risk. People still die of sepsis today, limbs are still being amputated because of untreatable infections.