Cage free eggs...Free Range eggs...either one still has chickens sitting on top of one another indoors...the free range is a small outdoor area attached to the gargantuan coop.
I worked framing a couple of 60 ft x 400 ft coops for "fryers" back in East Texas years ago for summer work in college. Chicken industry there has always been pretty big. And pretty nasty. Shove 30,000 chicks in one half of the building - auto-feed and auto-water for about 3 weeks, open the doors in the middle when they can't move around anymore and they take over the other half as well...at about six weeks they're herded into trailers at the other end and hauled to the chicken factory in town. Factory, not the neighborhood 'butcher shop'.
I'll let you consider the working and killing conditions there.
So, how'd we get to industrial food from where we were pre-WWII? We had most of our population living rural, gardening if not farming, providing at least some of their own food, and bartering with the neighbors...w/o getting taxed on the trade either.
Well, there was depression, a dust bowl, a lot of us moved off farms to the city to get factory / industrial jobs and the small farms agglomerated into big businesses with chemical fertilizers and an automated factory mentality. Now we're short on factory / industrial jobs, and our tech jobs are outsourced too.
We may all end up with a few chickens in the backyard, and some garden veggies just to get along.
Jefferson would have liked more of that kind of thing. We could, and maybe have, done worse.
I wish I lived one place more so I could tend garden and maybe have a chicken or two...my peripatetic life of chasing work to wherever it is will have to change though. (Not that that's a BAD thing.)
Nice little video...
What’s the real difference between cage-free and pastured eggs? [VIDEO] | Grist: "What’s the real difference between cage-free and pastured eggs? [VIDEO]
By Douglas Gayeton"
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