Week 5 - I love chicken but I want to eat NORMAL chickens...

OK so out of all of the different animals to eat chicken is by far the one I eat the most. I love chicken. I have it at least 5-6 times a week.... multiply that times 52 and that means over 300 servings of chicken per year. I am pretty sure other people share the same love for chicken as I do -- that's why it is no surprise that 90% of the all the animals slaughtered are chickens. That's a lot of chicken.

So you can understand why I am so absolutely disgusted by techniques used by factory farmers to grow and plump up chickens that eventually end up on my dinner plate.

The broiler chicken industry, which is comprised of only 60 companies, produces over 6 billion chickens a year for slaughter -- that is one chicken for every single person -- CRAZY. These chickens are selectively bread and genetically altered in order to create fatter thighs and breasts. The effects of this are chickens that are so heavy they cannot support their weight, making it hard for them to stand -- let alone walk! These birds are bred to grow at an astonishingly unhealthy rate.

Lets put it this way, if we were raised the same way these chickens are raised we would be over 300lbs by the time we are 3 yrs old. 300 lbs!!!!! That is absolutely disgusting.

1) I think that subjecting these chickens to these growth hormones is inhumane.

2) Why would you want to eat a chicken that has been subjected to such hormones and such messed up treatment? It definitely cannot be good for your health to eat these chickens.

MORAL OF THE STORY -- if you eat chickens make sure they are organic and free range chickens. Not only is it good on your conscious, it is good for your health!