We are what we eat. If you ask me about what is the most crucial issue in recent years, I want to emphasize the rising of chicken. As opposed to from farm to factory, from our behavior to structure of our thinking has started to become more highly important. As a result, diet habits are going to sustain every spectrum of our lives.
In matter of fact, our behavioral cycle generates our diet habits. We need to think about our relationship with chickens. We have already gained clarity on our gut is secondar brain and it can perform our health pathway. On the other hand, chicken is not only an animal. They are big cost that modern industrial farming can not pay a penance.
What you see on above became the most influentional book that I have read over the few months. Writers of this book are telling us that how is american diet habits shaping us. Also, they are tracking valuable paths that is related with the source of consuming foods. But the most vital point is to ethical issues that is associated with the phase of production and marketing.
If chicken is critical food in front of us that we need to discuss, I want to take an attention in behind of some numbers. According to some estimation, 60 million chicken are eaten all around world on a daily basis. Thanks to hyper-efficient production methods, chicken has become top one meat over the decades. https://thehumaneleague.org/article/how-many-chickens-are-in-the-world
KFC and Tyson Food’s
In some point, we are familiar to success story. So, one of them is about the oldest man’s story. Colonel Harland Sander who is founder of KFC and inventor of it’s spicy secret formul. This man attached to business life when he was 10. He had been every work which come across throughout him life. After that, when he is getting age, he was started to get payment about 250.000 dollars ever year for his broadcasting face. In the 60 age, he was moving around all restaurant in order to convince them to buy him chickens due to his retirement amount of price was not covering anything. As we see, chickens seem to be powerfull wings for the fulfillment of anyone’s succes. In this way, you can fly with chicken’s wings.
Tyson’s Foods is the biggest chicken producer of the world. (Arkansas State of USA) It had been showed as one of the worst 10 company of the year by Corporate Crime Reporter in 1999. Tyson Food’s has a long story about environmental pollutions. When we look at the severe conditions, there are 10 chickens in the area that is smaller than american typing paper. Appearently, 90 chicken is died per a minute in it’s slaughterhouses.
Moark Productions Inc. is the biggest eggs producer of USA. Carton Creek brands carton eggs that we can see in Wallmart has a animal care certification. United Eggs Producers about Animal Welfare and Food Safety and The Need For Minimum Decent Standart. In 2008, they provided 4.3 m² area for each chicken. However, according to professors of Davis University, this area was not sufficient for chicken’s turning around themselves and normal acts for relief. Even if the things initated was the certification with Animal Care regulations, it was just cover the some allegations.
Accusations and Trials
There has been some cases about Tyson’s Foods which is biggest chicken producer in the USA. For instance, West Kentucky’s citizens accused to this biggest company for ammonia rate. It can cause to breathing problems for households who is living in the nearest of this farms. There is no legal regulation about chicken farming. In the production phase, they use electrical water and shocking mechanism for each chicken. When chickens turn into uncouncious level, it is required to be using high voltaj. But this high voltage can distrupt the quality of chicken meal. That’s why, almost every chicken die as live. Other point, for each year, almost 3 million chicken which is trying to keep away from the line, they dropp into heated water.
Mclibel case was the longest trail in British history in 1997. Court decided that Mcdonald’s was responsible for the maltreatment of animals. Ethical issues had sparked in Europe and most of people have noticed that the industrial farming methods all around the world is responsible of it’s uncontrolled instructions. Because there is no legal restriction or regulations about chicken farming. Some limited regulation point is starting from slaughterhouse not farming and breeding phases.
Environmental Effects
Delmarva peninsula connects some part of the states of Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. According to Delaware University research, there are only limited fields that can cover certain chicken wastes. Also, Delmarwa gulf can not absorb nitrogen and phosphorus which are in the wastes. In today’s, this gulf has turned out to be death zone that is not allow other habitats to living in the region such as fishes, crabs and clams.
In a particular, this gulf acts as a huge filter that keeps the water clean. There were so many scallops and oysters in there. In the gulf of Delmarva, the chickens are produced more than 600 million every year. This amount of chicken cause fertilizier more than 4 million people who is living in the area. These unprocessed wastes of chickens are distributing to the field or plantation.
Anxious Porks
In 1975, there was 660.000 pork farm which can produce 69 million pork per a year in USA. This tremendous arising amount of mega pork farms has caused more severe environmental issues and pollution than chicken production. Moreover, adult porks can produce 4 times more feces than a human. Therefore, a thesis which involves 50.000 pork can produce half of million feces and pee each day.
https://livestock.extension.wisc.edu/articles/origin-and-history-of-the-chicken/ https://animaljustice.ca/blog/5-reasons-chicken-is-a-health-risk