Daily Mirror article on massive chicken broiler house in Georgia.

Hi everyone,

I like others question the need for treating animals as a financial entity with no concern for their welfare as animals welfare affects the quality of the meat they produce and this strikes me as being cheap and cheerless when they should be treated with respect as living entities rather than a financial commodity. I know why I buy locally produced free range eggs.

Please see:

mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/i...

I also believe that it's up to us the consumer to buy quality meat and less often as food is so cheap it's being wasted as we in the UK waste 40% fresh food products. I believe in people power and know what I think about genetically changed chicken so they grow very quickly for human consumption with their altered hormones which must affect us. To me this shows how big business can quickly control the markets and the farming practices so its one sided.

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I overheard a conversation at work a few weeks back, with a girl who refused to eat red meat because it was cruel and "not good for you". It struck me then that chickens seem to be a completely forgotten about species when we debate animal welfare, the environment and our health. This seems to reinforce my thoughts.

I don't think the UK are quite as bad as the US, we have higher requirements when it comes space for the chickens, but it's still pretty poor. Something like 15 chickens per square meter.

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Chicken is consedered healthy especailly if you don't eat the skin and then this sort of thing makes a mockery of that.

We have ro raise awareness of what we are eating and feeding our familes rather than just looking at seductive packaging...

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Thank you Jerry for sharing the article.

I've read the whole story and the Q&A's as well and think its disgusting the way those poor chickens are treated. I'm so glad I became a Vegan and so pleased more and more people are becoming Vegetarians or Vegans. Any idea of importing from America should be stopped and the powers that be who allow this to happen should be held accountable.

My husband still eats meat which I'm not happy about but he's a grown adult so I can't stop him but he makes sure he chooses the pricier meat.

I'm going to share the article on social media as people need to be aware.

Thank you Jerry.

Alicia

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Hey well done you Alicia share it as we need to change our ways...to me its like so may processed foods commercialism has created Frankenstein foods...

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I'm so glad you posted it and I've now shared it. In fact I'll ask some people on my Vegan groups to share as well.

We need natural food, not factory food!😡

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Fortunately dipping chicken carcasses in chlorine is banned here and in the US they spray them with acid instead sometimes...Just say NO!

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This is just awful, it was seeing a lorry load of sheep crammed in just like this that prompted me to become vegetarian when I was in my teens, and I was considered a bit weird then in the 1970s!

Re the chlorine washed chickens - two of my three sons eat meat occasionally, they are feeling like they are on borrowed time with this as when we no longer have to follow EU regulations they fear the quality of both animal welfare and food safety standards will decline.

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Hi Fran, I'm not sure as animals travel too far at the moment and that would be reduced here's a shocking article that really boosted a vegan diet in Australia:

theguardian.com/world/2018/...

I remeber when being a vegetarian was weird and we were stereotyped now its mainstream and the manufacturers can't keep up with the never ending demand for plant based foods and snacks.