Friday 12 August 2011

The chickens

Chickens

99 % of all chickens that get consumed in America, Sweden and the most of the other countries in the world is a chicken that is extremly fast growing (people have made them like that) with large chicken breasts.

It grows so fast that it can't really have a normal chicken life outside as it's very sensitive to heat, it dies easily in heart attacks and its legs are too weak to carry all the extra weight from the large chicken breasts.

100 years ago, chickens needed 120 days on them to reach its slaughter weight. Today it takes 33 days.

So much of the chickens energi goes to the muscle growth so they won't have as much left to develop its immunsystem. Which leads to more sicknesses which leads to more medication.

The chickens fast growth also effects its lungs and other inner organs as they develop slower.

In Sweden they got 75 million chickens to the slaughter houses 2007. 1 million were too sick for us to eat and that was after the farmers had taken away all the ones they saw that were too sick before sending them to the slaughters. Some even had tumors, that they had manage to develop in their 33 days life.

So I'm wondering; how did a chicken look like lets say 100 years ago, before humans started messing with the created? If 99 % of the chickens we eat today are not like that, then I'm wondering what a normal chicken looks like..

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