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A million. Christ. Probably all caged living awful lives, poor things.

I have 2 backyard chickens and they are really happy. Fresh eggs every day.

RFK Jr seems to be leaning that way right now, suggesting they should just let it spread.

I don't think it should be tacit. It should be explicit - no eggs, no meat, no fish, no natural resource produced within the USA should be imported or exported. And if the US government won't do that, let the rest of the world manage it.

I think it would be more fun if they did it explicitly instead of tacitly.

I think we should get Elon to attach rockets to America and launch the whole place into space

That sounds like socialism which is bad because it's bad. Look what happened in Canada, they didn't pay animal and worker abusingly low prices and now they don't have insanely high prices. Without causing these situations they are denying large parts of their population high sustained cortisol levels.

This is why we need to maintain our threats of annexation. We must provide them the stress that their government denies them.

Broiler chickens, dairy, and other poultry industries have this.

We should bring it back for crops (return of CWB)?

actually its overcrowding in farms too, they have indoor farms where its considered free range, but enough chickens to become crowded and you see dead chickens that are discovered til later.

Not sure if it's still this way, but a documentary years ago described the ridiculous technicality that allowed a farm to call themselves free range. It was like a door that led outside to a 4 foot cube area shared by thousands and thousands of chicken. Basically enough room for like three chickens to spread their wings... If they happened to find the door, and it wasn't already crowded... And they were actually able to walk.

Yes and no. Free range in America means "raised in a huge building and never seeing sunlight." Basically what separates them from cage free is that thousands of birds all share one giant cage instead of four birds to a cage inside the larger cage.

Pasture raised are the ones that get to go outside and eat bugs in the sunshine.

I wish more people knew that information.

Have you seen egg producer profits lately? It's great for them to have an opportunity to find out exactly how much consumers are willing to pay for their precious eggs. Super cost efficient, for them.

No, Civil War 2 is eggs, WW3 is because the US tried to take over Greenland, Canada, and Panama… perhaps to get more eggs.

In this specific example the regulators are doing their jobs, although a few HHS employees were fired in the early days of the Trump admin there have still been large-scale culls for infected livestock to prevent further spread.

Instead, this is an example of how important antimonopoly laws are and how the USA just straight up ignores it. Canadian egg farms are less than a twentieth the average size, less birds get infected and culled as a result.

It would be nice if that was the process. Instead it's the extraction of ever increasing profit that drives this. The big factory farms didn't occur out of not knowing how to farm. They were created as the well established way to decrease costs per unit produced, at least initially. Then large factory farms allow consolidation of production, since they can only be built and operated by large capital, and small farmers don't have it. Then the few owners of these farms are free to set the prices of whatever they produce as high as the market will bear. The owners now also have the leverage to get less regulation, since regulations generally increase costs.

they usually are more expensive than free range, followed by garden and restorative which are the most expensive ones, plus the eggs that produce different color or textures, which uses different farming pratices.

they step in thier own shit and urine all day.

It's not your fault a cyber truck drove by

Help our neighbours to the south and hurl them at American owned businesses