The investigative journalism TV show 60 Minutes Australia says the biggest animal welfare issue in Australia today is the raising of roasting chickens ("roast chook" in Australian lingo).
Whether the chicken factories are in Australia or Canada, they are more or less the same: plain wrong and un-necessary. Small flocks of pastured chicken are a clear alternative that's better; for you, the chicken that becomes your food, and the chicken during their lives.
There is a world-wide rejection of housing thousands of chickens in a factory barn, where they never feel grass under their feet, never feel the gentle breezes in their feathers, nor see the sun in the blue sky. The factory chicken farm is designed so the chickens waddle between the water spout and the feed bin, then sit down in their own manure, as they can't easily stand due to their extreme rate of growth that collapses their legs.
The factory chickens of today are designed to grow faster than cancer tumors. Not only is it unhealthy for the chicken, it's unhealthy for the food that results from that explosive, exponential growth.
When the chickens grow too big, too quickly, they often have massive coronary heart attacks, and suddenly keel over dead.
If a heart attack doesn't get them, the toxic dust, fumes, heat, and humidity they are forced to live in every day of their tortured lives takes its toll. The feathers on their bellies and rear end are literally burned off their bodies by the corrosive environment from which there is no escape. If not their feathers, then the soles of their feet are blistered and scarred by the toxic ooze upon which they continuously walk.
Watch this 14 minute video, then decide if this is the system that is OK to produce food for you and your family.
A blog to communicate, discuss, and advocate for the civil rights and important role Small Flock Poultry Farmers can play (and should play) in Canadian Society. Small Flockers are on the side of justice & truth, and against privilege & power. Unfortunately, the more we compromise with privilege and power, the more we reduce the capacity for truth and justice.
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