As living conditions for broiler chickens become more known and talked about among the public, many animal activists have advocated for their improved treatment. Each year in the United States alone, nine billion chickens succumb to this fate before their slaughter, which is also typically inhumane and sometimes even archaic. Their inability to move causes many birds to have premature heart attacks, grow excessively large hearts, and have their feet grow around the wire of their cages. Broiler birds are pumped with food daily and genetically manipulated to grow quickly in order to produce more meat for consumers. For their entire lives, an average of only 42 days, these birds are housed with many other chickens in a cage that makes movement incredibly difficult, made even more so by the largeness of their bodies. Instead, you look forward to the day you will be taken like the others were, never to return to this wretched place.įor many broiler chickens, this life of panic and confinement is a sad reality. Her spasm makes you want to lash out against someone else, peck them, and inflict some of the pain you feel but you resist. This new unsuspecting bystander screams and flails themselves against you but you can do nothing to avoid her attack.
You can’t help but cringe as your neighbor’s body touches yours and forces you to topple over into another being. All around you it smells like urine and feces, which either belong to you or a neighbor amidst the crowd. You look past your protruding body to the female next to you on your left, barely visible in the darkness, and find that they too show signs of panic. Your chest heaves in and out repeatedly but you still can’t breathe. You open your mouth as wide as you can to take in the warm, foul air.
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