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Eating Happy Chickens Means More Happy Chickens
irony award nominee
I'm guessing reason has never been to a industrial "free-range farm". The chickens are anything but happy.
"Rosie the organic chicken's life is little different from that of a conventional chicken. The organic chicken house held 20,000 birds. They get a few more square inches of living space and they get to live a few days longer. Though under the circumstances it's not clear that a longer life is necessarily a boon. Running along side was a grassy yard maybe 15 feet wide, not nearly big enough to accommodate all twenty thousand birds. The federal rules say an organic chicken should merely have "access to the outdoors". I waited by the chicken door to see if any of the birds would exercise that option and stroll down the little ramp to their grassy yard. Seldom if ever stepped upon, the chicken-house lawn is scrupulously maintained to honor an ideal nobody wants to admit has by now become something of a joke." paraphrasing michael pollan from an omnivore's dilemma.
- reckoner
August 13, 2008 9:56PM
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