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Tyson is recalling nearly 30,000 pounds of its dinosaur-shaped nuggets
(www.nbcnews.com)
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30,000 lbs is 1 day's worth of production?? Of 1 type of product? I'm not sure why, but I find that appalling.
Chicken mass production is pretty disturbing when you get into the numbers and details
Same for other meat industries
Yeah, I'm not morally opposed to eating meat per se, but factory farming is something else entirely. I long for a world where cultured meat is cheaper than the real deal.
Same, so many are weirded out by scientific meat but I welcome it over needing to slaughter hundreds of thousands of chicken daily
We're still at least 5 years away from cultured meat even being available in supermarkets, let alone competitive with factory farmed animal-based meat. I'm so happy to have gone vegan and I'm never looking back. The entire industry is horrifying.
I think a lot about the strategic pork supply in China. Nightmare stuff.
How many chickens lived their lives in a cage smaller than themselves only to get ground together with their friends to make 33,000 lbs of dino nuggets? The meat industry and the way we care for livestock need a complete overhaul.
one chicken -> 1.4 lbs cooked meat
33,000 lbs / 1.4 lbs = 23,571
edit: nuggets are more than cooked meat: https://sentientmedia.org/how-are-chicken-nuggets/
That is a 3lb chicken. Cornish cross chickens (which is what they would be using for something like this)would be slaughtered at 9-10 weeks which would make them 10-14 lbs.
So using your ratios above, 1 chicken yields 4.5 lbs of cooked meat, which means 7,333.333333333333 chickens.
It’s substantial less chickens.
Although the amount of harvested meat would be higher because they grind everything into a paste as you noted.
Also, multiply your number by two because they immediately send the males to the grinder.
Probably about 6000. And it took about 9 weeks of hell for them to meet that fate.
Sometimes the scale of industrially-produced food is difficult to grasp.
It's not unheard of for Americans to eat at least a pound of meat per day.
30,000 is a drop in the bucket.
Probably because you're not able to comprehend feeding 300 million people.