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> About 1 of every 5 eggs sold in America are laid by a Cal-Maine hen. Jesus, what a lot of market concentration. Alone the lack of genetic diversity... becaus
by mschuster91 1y ago
> About 1 of every 5 eggs sold in America are laid by a Cal-Maine hen.
Jesus, what a lot of market concentration. Alone the lack of genetic diversity... because there's no way in hell that such a large company doesn't want only the most profitable chicken they can get, and only that kind of chicken.
> What the deputies remembered most about the Warwick farm, though, was the time in 2011 when a fire killed 300,000 hens.
And that is just as harrowing. How the fuck are such large stables even allowed, why does regulation not demand separate stables and enough clearance to prevent the spread of fire?
But it's just chicken, eh, who cares about them...
- Loughla 1y agoSuffering is inherent in large, cheap meat sources. It doesn't matter what kind of animal it is. Once you hit factory production levels, the amount of misery skyrockets. It's why I was vegetarian before we could raise our own meat and dairy livestock.
- mschuster91 1y agoIt wouldn't be that much more expensive to have at least some basic animal welfare standards during raise and slaughter. But hey, those 13.56% yield [1], they don't come from nothing, and the stonk markets want their profit, animal welfare be damned. [1] https://www.nasdaq.com/de/market-activity/stocks/calm/dividend-history https://www.nasdaq.com/de/market-activity/stocks/calm/divide...
- leapingdog 1y agoMatt Stoller claims that the USA's problems with egg prices are a result of a European duopoly on hen breeding and USA cartels leveraging exclusivity agreements. I have no way of knowing if that is true or not.