Re:US approves chicken made from cultivated cells
by autoexec on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @05:12PM
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> A chicken just needs food and water.
The chicken at your typical grocery store needed a lot more than food and water. They needed vast amounts of land, housing, and staff. Covered in shit and full of open sores, burns, and wounds they're constantly pumped full of antibiotics because their immune systems could never keep up, beaks have to be removed, the corpses of birds that don't survive to slaughter age have to be collected and removed regularly. Factories filled with machines are used to kill and process them (https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c53840a3d44fcb1766161a2f37257...). Even after all that the chickens are soaked in or sprayed with chlorine and other chemicals before packaging.
What we have right now is so far removed from healthy chickens living and growing in the sun that we might as well be growing the meat in labs and sparing a living thing all the suffering we subject them to.
The chicken at your typical grocery store needed a lot more than food and water. They needed vast amounts of land, housing, and staff. Covered in shit and full of open sores, burns, and wounds they're constantly pumped full of antibiotics because their immune systems could never keep up, beaks have to be removed, the corpses of birds that don't survive to slaughter age have to be collected and removed regularly. Factories filled with machines are used to kill and process them (https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/c53840a3d44fcb1766161a2f37257...). Even after all that the chickens are soaked in or sprayed with chlorine and other chemicals before packaging.
What we have right now is so far removed from healthy chickens living and growing in the sun that we might as well be growing the meat in labs and sparing a living thing all the suffering we subject them to.