Category: Insights

FAKE: “The accelerated growth favoured by ultra-energy feeds means that the legs of these specimens cannot support their weight, preventing

FAKE: “These chickens, or perhaps it would be better to call them giant chicks, live between 40 and 60 days.

90 million European households have at least one pet. About 25% have a cat and 24% a dog. Worldwide 33%

FAKE: “A traditionally reared animal, to give an example, weighs 1.2 kg, maximum 1.5 kg at 4 months of age:

FAKE: “… the exponential growth in demand prompted American breeders to create genetic crosses that would allow chickens to grow

FAKE: “The broiler chicken is a chicken that grows faster than normal, it is a genetic selection put in place

FAKE: “Everyone will have seen at least once the image of the typical red-crested, yellow-skinned white chickens, which originate from

FAKE: “the broiler chicken is being ‘forced’ into growth that has nothing natural about it“. WHY IT IS A FAKE:

One of the criticisms levelled by animal activists at intensive livestock farming is that it hinders the development of biodiversity.

The most suggestive answer repeated by anti-farming activists would certainly be ‘free’. But it is an answer full of rhetoric