EDIT: for some context on the problems this creates
The science is clear that fast-growing chickens like the Ross 308 are doomed by their genetics. These have been engineered to grow so incredibly fast, and their bodies just cannot handle it.”
Jackson said secret filming at broiler farms supplying big supermarkets has shown birds struggling to walk or collapsing under their own weight, or dying from heart failure, and dead birds were filmed lying among the flocks.
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Andrew Knight, a professor of animal welfare and ethics at the University of Winchester, said: “With these really rapid growth rates, it can be difficult for the heart and circulatory system to keep up with the expanding body mass. A proportion of these animals suffer from heart failure. It’s also difficult for the bones, ligaments and tendons to keep up with the rapidly increasing body mass, meaning that a proportion of these birds become severely lame [inability to walk properly].”
And that quote only lists just some of the health problems they face. There's a ton of other problems too
This is horrible.
So not only do we breed them to kill them, we breed them so they suffer for their entire life.
We need to find other ways to feed people,or try to stop people eating too much (the few vs the poor, of course)
fun fact there is already a perfect alternative
::: spoiler Spoiler vegetables
You said the V word. Now I'm gonna eat two whole chickens out of spite /s.
You really think "part of nature" is a good argument for if something is morally acceptable? You can't think of anything that happens in the natural world that we choose not to do as civilized moral agents because it'd be wrong to do?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_nature
Also pugs, or Scottish fold cats… and those are creatures we love and keep as pets, not even livestock, and we still do it
They already have lab grown chicken meat available in restaurants in Singapore