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Releasing them would be dooming them to a horrible death. They'd end up ripped apart by wild animals or otherwise injured and live in pain until they die.

• Viliam1234 6y ago
  > live in pain until they die. The ethically important part is that those would be different flavors of pain than the ones they would have experienced in factory farming normally.
• koheripbal 6y ago
  > They'd end up ripped apart by wild animals ...so exactly like the fate of literally every other wild animal on Earth.
  • enneff 6y ago
    Not really. Wild animals mostly live in the environment they are adapted to. Most birds survive just fine out in the world. Chickens are not adapted to anything, but rather selected by us, and they certainly weren’t selected for toughness.
• zhte415 6y ago
  Certainly, it would. I raise chickens, but less than twenty, and mine are actual chickens that live for a while not factory ones. Decently sized coops, going for a walk once a day for a few hours (I suppose happy, they seem happy) and are quite good at seeing off the odd predator when they're out and about. You're correct, I put them in their chicken-wire yard at night for good reason. A neighbour has geese. Geese get freaked out very easily. If a stray dog comes by at 3am the entire street knows about it. I'm not from the farm. Interesting thing to learn is to let an egg rest a couple of days, no washing no refrigeration of course. Surprised me, wonderful variation in taste.