This is one of the more difficult questions to predict, but I’ll try. (These are general observations about future meat production/consumption rather than trying to think of exact numbers of slaughtered chickens for now.) There are many factors leading toward lower meat consumption during this ...
After two years of caring for meat chickens and falling in love with the birds only for them to be slaughtered, I decided to buy my own chickens. At 11 years old, I started my first of many entrepreneurial ventures to save money for my own flock of layer breeds. Pretty soon, I proudl...
Step 2: Chickens are kept indoors, and in addition to being given enough space to express their natural behaviors, they are given at least one “enrichment.” These are materials that add complexity to their environment and encourage the expression of natural behaviors, such as foraging, without...
For extensive husbandry, chickens are slaughtered after 81 days (slaughter quota: 4.5). Other poultry: Geese, turkeys and ducks account for a 12% consumption share in the region. The slaughter quota of geese is estimated to be 6.1 (slaughtered after 90 days), with a slaughter weight of 5.2...
and by a factor of about two among consumption patterns. The gain in farm labour efficiency with mechanization is enormous: only 2–5 hours of farm labour are needed to produce the food consumed by a person in a year. This value is much lower than the time an average person spends on ...
Just to give you an idea, these are the USDA statistics of slaughtered animals for the year 2008, obviously limited to the USA only: Cattle: 35,507,500 Pigs: 116,558,900 Chickens: 9,075,261,000 Layer hens: 69,683,000 Turkeys: 271,245,000 I strongly suggest these numbers ought to ...
So far this year, there have been cases in 24 states, with Iowa the hardest hit with about 13 million chickens and turkeys killed. Other states with sizable outbreaks include Minnesota, Wisconsin, South Dakota and Indiana. Farms faced with the need to kill so many birds turn to ...
The dark side of progress is now unmistakable; many of the advances that have made our lives more comfortable have also made them more dangerous. Some 30 new diseases have cropped up since the mid-1970s -- causing tens of millions of deaths -- and forgotten scourges have resurfaced with ...
Look, I am attempting to transition into vegetarianism, and there aren’t too many obstacles getting in the way of going to that path (okay, I still want bacon on occasion, but there are alternatives), except for my parents. They are concerned that: A: It will “stunt” my growth (...
to edible meat, at least four times more efficient than pigs, and twice as efficient as chickens, according to the FAO. And unlike other farmed animals, crickets are raised in compact, multi-story farms with comparatively little water, and are “slaughtered” humanely through a freezing process...