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jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

Why 597 million chickens go missing from America’s food supply each year

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Why 597 million chickens go missing from America’s food supply each year

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jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 1 year ago
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Chicken giants are pushing birds to their biological limits. A staggering number die but never make it to consumers’ plates.
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    Quick guess without reading the article: they’re male.

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      they died during transport to the slaughterhouse or were slaughtered but deemed unsafe to eat due to a variety of reasons, including tumors, bruising, or infections.

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        including tumors

        Last I checked you can’t get cancer by eating it?

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          What is your point? You want to be eating cancerous tumors? Or you just own a chicken farm and want more profit at the expense of others?

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            I have no idea WTF you are talking about. Take your aggressiveness elsewhere.

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              But it does seem like you’re suggesting that people should eat the tumors.

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                deleted by creator

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              lol suspiciously defensive. I think we’ve got a chicken farmer over here!

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          Transmissible Cancer does exist, but no chicken/human variants at the moment.

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            but no chicken/human variants at the moment.

            RFKJr accepts your challenge

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            Thank you.

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      Tl;DR the poultry industry is bad

      Source: an animal rights group called Animal Equality

      Seriously though, there are lots of reasons why there’s so much death, but the reasons can be summarized like this: Manufacturing cheap food at an industrial scale results in many unethical choices.

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      Nope the males are ground up right after sexing. In even larger numbers

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