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Curious what the problem is? Animals with bones have existed for hundreds of millions of years. The environment knows what to do with them. PFCs by contrast do

Curious what the problem is? Animals with bones have existed for hundreds of millions of years. The environment knows what to do with them. PFCs by contrast do not exist naturally in the world and they act as a toxin in the environment.

vlabakje90 4y ago
Never before has there been a time where billions of chickens were killed each year. The dose make the poison.
aziaziazi 4y ago
Around 200 billions chickens are slaughtered each year, not sure how that compare with their population during previous hundreds millions of years.
karlkeefer 4y ago
I can't speak to the actual problems from chicken bones, but scale may be part of the explanation. We are producing something like 50 billion chickens for slaughter every year. I don't think that estimate includes laying hens or culled males, either. The scale of chicken production is bonkers relative to natural bird populations. The most abundant wild bird species is on the order of 1.5 billion. They are sparrow-sized and that's not their annual number. Framed animals dwarf wild mammals and wild birds by mass: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/08/total-biomass-weight-species-earth https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/08/total-biomass-weight-...
- giantg2 4y ago
  In theory, scale shouldn't be an issue. After all, you need enough farms to produce feed for those animals. It's just a matter of processing those by products into fertilizer and distributing it over the massive area that is used for crop production. Although industrial farming could be considered an environmental problem, regardless of the chickens.
- BurningFrog 4y ago
  Replacing those 50 billion chickens with "lab grown" meat, will bring huge changes the next few decades.
_0w8t 4y ago
The problem is the concentration that nature has never experienced before. Alcohol is natural but in concentrations that required distilling is a poison. Or in Norway it turned out throwing into fjords pieces of stones that are a by-product of quarry is very problematic. It releases into water copper and other metals within years poisoning plants and fish. Through natural weathering it takes thousands of years to release the same amount.

vlabakje90 4y ago

Never before has there been a time where billions of chickens were killed each year. The dose make the poison.

aziaziazi 4y ago

Around 200 billions chickens are slaughtered each year, not sure how that compare with their population during previous hundreds millions of years.

karlkeefer 4y ago

I can't speak to the actual problems from chicken bones, but scale may be part of the explanation. We are producing something like 50 billion chickens for slaughter every year. I don't think that estimate includes laying hens or culled males, either. The scale of chicken production is bonkers relative to natural bird populations. The most abundant wild bird species is on the order of 1.5 billion. They are sparrow-sized and that's not their annual number. Framed animals dwarf wild mammals and wild birds by mass: https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/08/total-biomass-weight-species-earth https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2021/08/total-biomass-weight-...

giantg2 4y ago
In theory, scale shouldn't be an issue. After all, you need enough farms to produce feed for those animals. It's just a matter of processing those by products into fertilizer and distributing it over the massive area that is used for crop production. Although industrial farming could be considered an environmental problem, regardless of the chickens.
BurningFrog 4y ago
Replacing those 50 billion chickens with "lab grown" meat, will bring huge changes the next few decades.

_0w8t 4y ago

The problem is the concentration that nature has never experienced before. Alcohol is natural but in concentrations that required distilling is a poison. Or in Norway it turned out throwing into fjords pieces of stones that are a by-product of quarry is very problematic. It releases into water copper and other metals within years poisoning plants and fish. Through natural weathering it takes thousands of years to release the same amount.