Do you ever wonder how that delicious home made baked chicken that your mom made came from? Well as the world’s population grows, the higher the demand on poultry, meat and crops (chicken, beef, pork, turkey, corn, etc.). Well companies tried their best to reach those demands by doing it industrial style.
Industrial Agriculture: The industrialized production of livestock, poultry, fish, and crops is called industrial agriculture. Industrial agriculture includes techno scientific, economic, and political methods. Methods like inventing new agricultural machines, adopting new farming methods, creation of new markets for consumption, ensuring patent protection to genetic information, using genetic technology and global trade are used in industrial agriculture. It is using these methods that most of the meat, dairy, eggs, fruits, and vegetables available in supermarkets nowadays are produced. Industrial agriculture is also called as industrial farming.
Industrial Agriculture: The industrialized production of livestock, poultry, fish, and crops is called industrial agriculture. Industrial agriculture includes techno scientific, economic, and political methods. Methods like inventing new agricultural machines, adopting new farming methods, creation of new markets for consumption, ensuring patent protection to genetic information, using genetic technology and global trade are used in industrial agriculture. It is using these methods that most of the meat, dairy, eggs, fruits, and vegetables available in supermarkets nowadays are produced. Industrial agriculture is also called as industrial farming.
We all have that ideal farm. The ones with the barn and animals running around the wide field. But the industrial agriculture thinks differently. They do have barn, where they keep all the animals cramped and have no where to run.
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| How Chickens should be raised. |
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| How industrial agriculture would raise chicken. Another fact about chickens is that it would usually take about 12-16 weeks to grow a full size chicken. Since there has been a highly demand on chickens, the industrial agriculture has their own way of growing a full size chicken with in 40 days! Yes with in 40 days. You may ask “how would you do that?” Well the secret to that are anabolic steroids. So now they’re injecting steroids in our food like they were some sort of athletes. These steroids have side effects on both humans and chickens. For us these side effects causes children to enter puberty at an earlier age. While the effects on these chickens are so much more than that. These steroids causes the chicken to grow so fast that the chicken’s body cannot keep up with the rapid growth in result of death. |
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| 5 weeks old chickens with the body of a 12 weeks old chicken |
I think that the agricultural industry should find other ways to keep up with the demands, instead of injecting growth hormones and cramming chickens in one small space. Chickens should have the freedom to run and also grow normally. Raising chickens should never be a battle between rural and urban. It should stay the same like how it was before (feeding them the right food, let them run in a wide open space and give them love.) In result of this are happy and healthy humans and animals.
