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Healthy Home Economist / Archives / Healthy Living / Mass Produced Chickens

Mass Produced Chickens

by Sarah Pope / Affiliate Links ✔

mass produced chickens

My family traveled across the state this weekend for a soccer tournament. A few miles from the sports complex out in the middle of nowhere, I noticed a large, confinement chicken operation. You’ve probably seen this type of factory farm before, but perhaps didn’t know what they were .. long, thin, windowless white buildings standing in line, one after another in very ominous fashion.

I pointed the buildings out to my kids and explained what was inside – thousands upon thousands of hapless chickens who never get to go outside, never feel or see sunlight, and are packed like sardines into cages so that they step all over each other just to move around. Many of them also have their beaks cut off (with no painkiller used, no doubt) to prevent them from injuring each other in such close quarters. They are subjected to antibiotic laced feed, day after day, to prevent outbreaks of illness in such filthy living conditions. If the chickens are kept for eggs, the long rows of flourescent lights (or light bulbs) are never turned off so that the chickens have no concept of day and night. As a result, the hens are unnaturally tricked into producing more eggs.
After describing the operation, I asked the kids if they ever wanted to eat eggs or meat produced in such a place. The answer was, of course, a resounding “No!”. They also added that they were glad our local chicken farmer lets his chickens run around outside, pecking for bugs as they were naturally intended to do. No antibiotic laced feed for locally produced, small scale chicken farms. These chickens are happy, and happy chickens have happy meat, literally.
You may think this ridiculous, but the fact is that chickens produced in factory farms are obviously miserable, and animals abused in this fashion have high levels of stress and inflammation producing hormones circulating in their bodies at all times. When you eat factory farmed chicken, you are truly consuming unhappiness in the form of these negative hormones that still reside in the meat. If you haven’t already done so, resolve not to support this type of farm. Find a local farmer and buy eggs and meat from happy chickens.
To get the list of local, small scale producers in your area, contact your local Weston A. Price Foundation Chapter Leader:
http://www.westonaprice.org/chapters/index.php
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
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Sarah Pope

Sarah Pope MGA has been a Health and Nutrition Educator since 2002. She is a summa cum laude graduate in Economics from Furman University and holds a Master’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.

She is the author of three books: the bestseller Get Your Fats Straight, Traditional Remedies for Modern Families, and Living Green in an Artificial World.

Her four eBooks Good Diet…Bad Diet, Real Food Fermentation, Ketonomics, and Ancestrally Inspired Dairy-Free Recipes are available for complimentary download via Healthy Home Plus.

Her mission is dedicated to helping families effectively incorporate the principles of ancestral diets within the modern household. She is a sought after lecturer around the world for conferences, summits, and podcasts.

Sarah was awarded Activist of the Year in 2010 at the International Wise Traditions Conference, subsequently serving on the Board of Directors of the nutrition nonprofit the Weston A. Price Foundation for seven years.

Her work has been covered by numerous independent and major media including USA Today, ABC, and NBC among many others.

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Comments (3)

  1. Jezreel Walden

    Feb 21, 2020 at 7:19 pm

    I need 100 safe, healthy, live and mite free chickens. I have some space and would like to farm them to eat.

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  2. Anonymous

    Feb 24, 2010 at 9:46 pm

    Hey Sara! Since you happen to be my chapter area leader I'd love a copy of small scale farmers in my area.. I keep driving around looking for signs thus far, but that hasn't been too helpful lol 🙂 Thanks!
    All the best,
    Dianne Aikey

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  3. Jennifer Betancourt

    Feb 21, 2010 at 7:41 pm

    Another wonderful option is to raise your own happy girls and allow them to scratch about your backyard! Not every city has rules against hens (though most have rules against roosters), so it might be worth a look to see if you can keep your own. We love watching our small flock and the beautiful, orange yolks they produce in their eggs is a testament to how happy they are. Never a pale yellow yolk in the bunch- always stunning and orange!

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