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The thing that jumps out at me from the article is the sheer size of 'the broiler farm that 160.000 chickens call home.' If anything this article makes me feel
by mverwijs 12y ago
The thing that jumps out at me from the article is the sheer size of 'the broiler farm that 160.000 chickens call home.'
If anything this article makes me feel ashamed for being Dutch.
- tirant 12y agoWhy? Those chickens are living in much better conditions that others in chicken farms all around the world.
- mverwijs 12y agoThe fact that others are worse off does not in any way help the horrible predicament these chickens are in.
- Synaesthesia 12y agoIt's not ideal, but if you look at how chickens are usually farmed, it's in the dark, in wire cages stacked on top of each other this is much better! Battery cages are completely unsanitary, the birds are covered in shit the whole time and can easily get injured, and much more stressful than this.
- rejschaap 12y agoYeah, these chickens are healthy, they might even be happy there. They could do a lot worse. If someone really doesn't like the idea of broiler farm chickens, they can pay a little extra for free range chickens. Or pay even more to buy them off a local farmer. Or just switch to something else entirely, there are plenty of alternatives available today.
- riffraff 12y agohow do you see that those chicken are healthy? I ask honestly because my first thought at the picture was that, If anything, it shows that the chickens have bad plumage[0] and are mostly sitting down[1]. For [1] my guess is either the animals pick on each other too much, or they are actually chicks that have grown in size faster than they should. For [2] it may mean that they have weak bones/muscles (due to bad feeding, inflated growth and no movement) and that they are actually laying in their own filth. It may still be better than cages, of course.
- facepalm 12y agoYou might enjoy reading "Eating Animals".