Fed: U OK Hen?

美联储:你还好吗?

Discovery

科学

2024-07-09

26 分钟
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We eat chicken. A LOT of it. We might love the taste, but what about how we're treating those birds? After witnessing first-hand the reality of indoor chicken farming - how most of the chicken we eat is raised - Dr Chris van Tulleken wants to know: are the birds happy enough, or is our method of rearing cheap chicken actually cruel? If so, what’s the ‘happier’ alternative – and do carnivores like Chris care enough to pay the price for that, or does a love of meat ultimately trump ethics? Chris battles with his conscience, and finds the answer hard to stomach.
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  • How did the richest people on the.

  • Planet make their fortunes?

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  • The sheds are carpeted in birds.

  • You see birds where their legs are buckling underneath them and I find it just so.

  • These are chickens that have been selectively bred to grow as big as possible, as quick as possible, using as little feed as possible.

  • There's a lot to be said for it in a sustainability argument.

  • These birds are hugely efficient in how much weight they put on which they.

  • I know there's an image of a chicken farmer going in there and kicking his chicken around the sheds and all, but they're not.

  • I mean, at the end of the day, high welfare.

  • One of the ways I really like to think about welfare is to ask myself, how willing would I be to take on the life that that animal is living?

  • And for me, I wouldn't be so keen, to be honest, to live the life of a broiler chicken.