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Karen Davis PhD
ISBN 13 978-1-57067-229-3

I want to share this book I just picked up at the local library. It’s a very compelling book about the modern poultry practices and the tragedy chickens endure.

Let me quote the Preface of the book a bit.

"…7.5 billion chickens being slaughtered  in the mid-1990s in the United States, nearly 10 billion chickens are now being slaughtered, with parallel rises in other countries reflecting the expansion of chicken consumption and industrialized production into Latin America, China, India, Africa, Russia, Mexico, and elsewhere. Throughout the world over 40 billion chickens are now being slaughtered for meat each year, and over 5 billion hens are in battery cages, many of them in egg-production complexes holding up to a million or more birds.

..the number of  “meat-type” chickens being crammed into filthy, dark sheds has risen from 20,000 up to as many as 50,000 birds in a single metal building. Chickens forced to gain five pounds in six weeks in the mid-1990s are now being forced to gain eight pounds in the same amount of time. Chickens raised for meat are in such crippling pain, their bodies are so abnormally large and disproportioned, their skin, joins, and intestines are so rotting with ulcers and necrotic  diseases, that they can barely stand, let alone walk…"


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Know where your food comes from.
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Support local, small scale farmer who practices sustainable agriculture.

Life is short not to keep bees, and chickens too!