See the True Cost of Your Cheap Chicken | NYT Opinion
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- Опубліковано 9 лют 2022
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The titans of the U.S. chicken industry want you to view their sector as a great American success story. In just a few decades, they will tell you, the industry has evolved from a fragmented, homespun business to a well-oiled engine of efficiency that produces wholesome, nutritious products at increasingly affordable prices. Chicken, they will point out, is now the most popular meat in the country.
But as the Opinion Video above reveals, these gains have come at extraordinary cost to the chickens themselves - and to the farmers who are contracted to raise them by the huge chicken corporations that now dominate the sector.
In the video, activists from the nonprofit group Mercy for Animals take us behind the industry’s closed doors, to a place that the chicken barons wish you never saw: the inside of an industrial chicken farm. The footage, supplied by Mercy for Animals, shows you how the system inflicts unimaginable cruelty on the animals, which are bred to grow really big, really fast, exposing many to injury, heart attacks, disease and death. More than 90 percent of chickens raised for food in the United States are grown by farmers working under contract with large poultry producers. We also introduce you to a chicken farmer who describes the strict terms under which he and others are contracted to produce poultry for the big companies that control the industry.
Yet there is hope in sight, for the chickens, at least. Popeyes, Subway, Burger King and around 200 other food companies have signed onto the Better Chicken Commitment, obliging their suppliers to adhere to a raised set of standards for chicken welfare. Perdue Foods, one of the largest poultry companies in the United States, began an animal welfare initiative four years ago - which includes improved living conditions for chickens - and has continued to lead the way in producing affordable chicken more humanely. Although these changes are a work in progress, their efforts show it’s possible for large-scale producers to incorporate more humane standards, and other producers should take note.
This is the second in a series of three videos we are releasing this month that explore some of the harms of the global food system and the urgent need to address them. The first, published last week, examined how the powerful American agriculture lobby has fended off environmental regulation, despite the harm done by the sector.
We hope that each video, in a different way, challenges you to weigh your dietary choices, with ethics, politics and the environment in mind.
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Hi I produced this Opinion Video. This footage from Mercy for Animals has definitely made me think more carefully about what I eat. I'd love to know what you thought of our video, and whether learning about industrial farming has made you reconsider how often you eat meat and where you buy it from. Leave your comments below
I eat the keto plan. I think it's 80% meat and fat and the rest in veggies. Instead of punishing the farmer, why can't we get rid of the LOBBYISTS that pay the POLITICIANS thousands of dollars to keep it this way?
And I always appreciate people who bring out the truth no matter how disgusting it is. That's how we change the world. Keep up the great work. 👍
This nation has a 'cheap food' policy designed to keep the population fat and happy. It began in the 1970's, ostensibly as a method of 'modernizing' agriculture, with that actually meaning the industrialization of production. It has destroyed rural community and family life, poisoned the environment, and produced an agriculture where over 90% of actual output has been corporatized. It was so successful, that the next sector to meet the same fate was organized industrial labor, leading on to our present day, where nearly ALL wealth and power has accrued to a select and self-sustaining few. It's all related- the cruelty to animals AND people, the destruction of land, lives, and livelihood, and WHEN do we make it end?
Government policies created this; tax and monetary policies along with deregulation, and government policy can end it. WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT, and we need to bring it back under our control in order to turn this around- it can be done.
@@nancyfahey7518 - the people who operate places like this aren't 'farmers'. In many cases they are essentially share croppers, in debt and beholden to corporate giants who dictate their every action. In an increasing number, they are wholly owned by processor/marketers themselves. Even in the case where an actual owner can be identified, their relation to farming would be like saying Elon Musk builds cars. They need to be ended completely....
The editing of the video is fabulous, truly inspiring. If only there were something I could actively be doing to protest money hungry lobbyists.
Food system dynamics relating to climate change and unethical practices is finally coming into the main stream media. If there is anyway that I can help, please let me know.
@@CrazyWinning10 - buy quality food from local farmers! Almost everyone now has access to farmers markets and subscription agriculture. Don't trust labels like 'organic' or 'sustainable'- they're too easy to game- but actually 'know' your farmer, it's easy. 🙂
I appreciate the fact that they focused on the corporations as opposed to blue collar farmers. And how farms are being collectivised by private corporations, who worship money as a god.
I think we've known for a while that the farmers in this equation are getting screwed. They often get overcome with debt to the corporations and it's like extortion or some other form of legal RICO. it's destroyed many good people. Most of those farmers are barely making a living. The corporations? Well, it's the US and these are large corporations with billions in annual revenue. Their executives aren't making $150k/yr. They're making millions. The decision makers are making millions by making the decisions that take advantage of regular folk, take advantage of govt programs, and that weasle out of paying anything to anyone.
I worked as an ag engineer for a few yrs. Like most of American industries now, there are small and enormous players. The enormous players were often small once, but that was 50 yrs ago. They plead poverty now bc their books show them only making $30k or $40k last year, but they have $2 million in dairy cows and same in land and same in equipment. Sure the bank owns mroe than half, but it's agriculture, so it's INTEREST FREE loans. So that poor farmer that's milking 3000 to 6000 cows, he's worth a few million. Sure, he "only" made $40k last year as his pay. But his farm is worth millions and it's owned by only a few people,
sorry but the corporations own the farms...... not very many chicken ranchers anymore 😢
@@kayleeh8140 true but this is America. There’s hope for the rest of the world yet!
@@kayleeh8140 I'm one of the few left. I've got 600+ meat birds, 100+ laying hens and pullets, and 80 thanksgiving turkeys. All are in portable pastured chicken tractors, rotated pasture or in the brooder if they're real little and all are fed Non-GMO grain produced from a group of Virginia farmers just over the North Carolina border. ;)
This is one of the best videos I've seen in awhile. Very eye-opening. The system is corrupt our politicians are bought, and the future is bleak. Only we can change this by saying NO! with our wallets
And activism. Ideally we should be living in a cruelty-free world but animals don't have a voice to speak up for themselves so we have to do it for them.
The only way!
It is hard to "say no with your wallet" when so many don't have enough money to buy expensive non-tortured chicken meat (if there is any available). Those type of boycotts don't work, people who need a cheap source of protein will buy the product anyway.
Watch dominion :)
@@Megaghost_ right but the problem is people either don’t know or don’t want to know. They can just simply stop eating chicken. Once I came to learn of this and started working, I only have been buying the expensive one hoping they’re being honest. Better yet, I hope to somehow stop eating chicken or find a local farmer who grows them humanely. Restaurant chicken is this and the only way we can avoid is by again eating at a much more expensive restaurant when it comes to chicken. Not practical but I guess the simplest solution is being a pescatarian I guess. But i wonder how fish farming goes. Hopefully that $30 salmon filet from Norway that’s sold at Costco is safe lol
In some sick way I am glad these poor birds only live 8 weeks max. I accidentally got 2 in a mix. They grew so fast.. faster than the other chicks... my chickens never got as big as my accidental meat chickens.. never. One of my meat chickens made it 6 weeks before its leg broke under its heavy weight.. I tried to raise them to grow slowly... not possible. NOT POSSIBLE. We had to behead my chicken. I sobbed so much. My other meat chicken couldn't roost like the others. Some creature (probably a raccoon) got the door slightly open and my meat chicken was a sitting duck. It's head was eaten off... and the body left behind.
It was such a shock to me.. how insatiable they are.. how fast they grow.. their deaths.. it hurt to see just two. I loved my babies. I did everything I could to make their lives good as long as I could...
I often liked to choke my meat chicken. I know some cultures like to behead them, but that's not for me and I think it's a barbaric practice.
It’s not a good thing they live such short deaths, they just shouldn’t exist at all to begin with. In most poorer developing countries in Africa and Asia and Latin America, these overgrown Cornish cross chickens actually aren’t even used! They use regular heritage breed type chickens for meat instead, just like back in the old days, it’s only in the greedy and morally deprived developed countries like the USA, China, Europe, Japan, etc. where the huge Cornish crosses are raised. The existence of Cornish Crosses is just wrong, they’re so unnatural, and were created 100% out of greed. The fact that an entire hybrid species was created to live just 6-8 weeks and be eaten is disturbing. At this point those Cornish crosses are so different from the original chickens that they might as well be another species. Also the part you mentioned about the Cornish crosses’ head being eaten off is just horrific, it couldn’t even walk away, so unnatural and sad.
Good video. We need to keep spreading the word on this industry. Factory farming is a huge problem in the world not only for chickens. These big companies have so much power. Consumers are starting to be educated on how they're being manipulated, and not supporting the cruelty.
Well as long as they sell it cheap people will buy.
As someone who works in agriculture/vet med these kinds of videos always make me feel conflicted. But I do appreciate how the farmer gets a fair representation.
The farmer is an important cog in the wheel of the animal holocaust. They are a willing and wanton participant in the murder of billions annually. I have no sympathy for them.
Both Joaquin Phoenix(Dominion) and Natalie Portman(Eating Animals) have each produced documentaries about factory farming. Dominion does not hold back any of the difficult footage to watch. It's very awakening and although people are not gonna stop eating animals there has to be a better way.
Thank you for posting these. I grew up in a religion that is mostly vegan, vegetarian or cut out a lot of meats. I still get judged for not eating meat. People take it as a personal offense. How is not eating a dead carcass a personal offense? It's not. People get offended that someone else refuses to stoop as low as them in that aspect of life. They think I see myself as a better person. I don't. I was raised this way. It was easier for me. I don't think I'm better than anyone. And yet I am just met with harsh defensiveness when I refuse to eat animal products. Even when I pin it on my religion to try to get out of their hateful spiel. Doesn't work.
@@bastelzakai5786 Most people are stupid af
@@bastelzakai5786 If you are a Seventh Day Adventist, you could point out the fact that you tend to live longer because of your diet. Some people need a selfish reason to do the right thing. I switched to a mostly plant based diet for the health benefits, and then went fully vegan once I educated myself on the subject.
Some people will stop eating animals. The number of vegans is growing quickly.
To be completely honest, factory farming chickens is the most environmentally friendly way of farming them, though it is without a doubt awful in many many other ways.
I like the addition of the perspective of the farmers who are also victims to these companies because often only the living conditions of the animals is shown. The problem is consumers also live in poverty or near it most of the time. What can be done
There are other (cheaper) ways to get protein than chicken. It doesn't get much cheaper than rice, beans, lentils, and other dried bulk grains & legumes.
You lose a lot of cheap pre-made foods if you want to stop supporting these practices, but we shouldn't belittle those in poverty by claiming they are unable to cook.
If you are poor, eat cheap healthy foods like beans, lentils, rice. Not only will you save money, your health and the environment - you will prevent the horrific torture of animals. The cowardly 'what can be done' attitude will not change anything.
Every year we globally produce enough food to feed 10 billion people. There are only 6 billion and a lot of them go hungry. This isn't just an issue of consumption, this is an issue of production for profit over need.
world population is 7.8 billion. It will likely be 6 billion in a couple decades though.
Most of us have no idea how the system works. Thank you for shedding light. Would like more reporting on different consumption industries as well.
SK1,
The food industry and new York times are on the same payroll. They both are criminal
@@bz3086 Liar.
The food industry is one that we can do something about. Vote with your wallet and boycott meat dairy and eggs! Humans do not need to eat animals or what comes out of them to thrive! The largest organization of nutrition professionals officially said so-
"It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that appropriately planned vegetarian, including vegan, diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits for the prevention and treatment of certain diseases.
These diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, adolescence, older adulthood, and for athletes. Plant-based diets are more environmentally sustainable than diets rich in animal products because they use fewer natural resources and are associated with much less environmental damage. Vegetarians and vegans are at reduced risk of certain health conditions, including ischemic heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, certain types of cancer, and obesity. Low intake of saturated fat and high intakes of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, soy products, nuts, and seeds (all rich in fiber and phytochemicals) are characteristics of vegetarian and vegan diets that produce lower total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and better serum glucose control. These factors contribute to reduction of chronic disease. Vegans need reliable sources of vitamin B-12, such as fortified foods or supplements."
Link on my channel under "About."
These consumption industries are here to stay because you've given up sustainability for consumerism and to go back now is nearly impossible.
Idk who you know but the people i know arent THAT stupid.
Such production should be forbidden by law.
It's because the for profit sectors bribe the lawmakers.
Agree - and yet it's actually protected by Ag-gag laws 😥
Impossible to feed the country without it. If they swapped to traditional farming or free range, they'd obliterate the landscape by turning it all into low biodiversity farm land. This would wipe out thousands of species. The *only* way to end factory farming is to get people to eat less meat.
@@porcu12345 Or no meat. Humans do not need to eat animals or what comes out of them to thrive! The largest organization of nutrition professionals officially said so-
"It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that appropriately planned vegetarian, including vegan, diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits for the prevention and treatment of certain diseases.
These diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, adolescence, older adulthood, and for athletes. Plant-based diets are more environmentally sustainable than diets rich in animal products because they use fewer natural resources and are associated with much less environmental damage. Vegetarians and vegans are at reduced risk of certain health conditions, including ischemic heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, certain types of cancer, and obesity. Low intake of saturated fat and high intakes of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, soy products, nuts, and seeds (all rich in fiber and phytochemicals) are characteristics of vegetarian and vegan diets that produce lower total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and better serum glucose control. These factors contribute to reduction of chronic disease. Vegans need reliable sources of vitamin B-12, such as fortified foods or supplements."
Link on my channel under "About."
@@porcu12345 Switching to a pure plant based diet is the single most effective way to do your part to fight climate change and environmental degradation.
"Eating a vegan diet could be the “single biggest way” to reduce your environmental impact on earth, a new study suggests. Researchers at the University of Oxford found that cutting meat and dairy products from your diet could reduce an individual's carbon footprint from food by up to 73 per cent.Sep 24, 2020"
Link on my channel under "About."
You wear a full PPE Kit but not gloves…. Great 👍🏻
Yes I was just thinking about this... And she proceeds to touch her neck after holding one of the chickens with the "burns"
the coveralls are to protect the clothing. and it's not anywhere near a full ppe kit. the mask is for the smell/dust, but really it won't be at all unsafe in there for someone to walk around in with just a mask and a pair of briefs
A lot of people in lower income brackets can't afford $6/lb chicken, like me, but there needs to be options for those that can afford it and want to help both chicken and farmer.
Fortunately we don't have to eat any chicken, whether you're rich or poor. I was extremely poor when I was younger and all the staple foods are plant based and cheap. Lentils, pasta, rice, etc.
@@RatchetPo Can't forget the big one in Americas, 🌽. The problem is more of wanting chicken and meat in general. Much harder to solve that problem. Lab grown meat will hopefully save the day.
check the website, there might be resources. might have to do some leg work and ask around ur local area.
The great smoke and mirrors. Thr company made $3.8 billion dollars in operating cash flow. They do not have to raise the prices. But think of it this way too. Can you imagine the quality of the meat that has genetically modified? You are putting it into your body. What kind of affects is it having on your health?
@@rachaelwalrath6077 Judging by how corn has been genetically modified many years ago along with other modern fruits and vegetables, I'd say a positive effect for overall health as well as the potential to combat world hunger and starvation.
one of the reasons I've reduced meat intake from daily to a few times a month. we can get by w less.
Not even our ancestors ate so much meat every single day.
Thank you so much for making this video. It brings light to a terribly capitalistic industry. My parents got into this industry, thinking it was a good retirement. They're in enormous mounds of debt, and they can't get out of the business. The distributors won't give chickens to new owners if we choose to sell, so then sellers back out. The smaller farms get less quantity and quality, too, which means less revenue, even if you have the capacity for it. If you "don't produce as much," they'll send less, but you can't make enough money if they send less livestock.
Seriously, f*** all the big chicken companies. My family went from lower upper class to working class working for you guys.
Went vegetarian 4 years ago and never looked back. This was just another great reminder
Eggs and dairy?
unfortunately consuming eggs (and dairy, because cows as all other farm animals live in the same inhumane conditions) still contributes to this horrible cycle of suffering. The only way to end it is to go vegan.
@@albertoandrade9807 , eggs and dairy are just as bad, if not worse. They're still part of animal agriculture.
@@pathuey7194 vegan here 🙂 Just wanting to know if OP applied that lesson to dairy and eggs
@@NeneChan203Grass fed milk and pasture raised eggs are what you need.
Poor people need cheap protein. Maybe educate them that beans have protein?
Nutritionally speaking, plant-based protein and animal-based protein have different nutritional value.
@@bai_qi your statement is, at best, misleading, and I would argue is outright untrue, because you are trying to say that animal protein is necessary for humans in order to have “good nutrition” yet there are millions of people in the USA (and millions more around the world) who eat an entirely plant-based diet with no animal protein at all, and they are perfectly healthy.
@John Early no, they are not perfectly healthy. You can see thru their skin. Their eyes are sunken in. They eat more carbs than they should because they are still hungry.
Vegetarian diet is extremely healthy with lower rates of cancer and heart disease. Vegan diet does require supplemental protein for growing children
@@susanfritzel4055 not sure what you mean by “supplemental.” If you mean “more protein than an adult would need” then yes, but there is no reason a growing child can’t get all the protein they need from plant based sources, so “supplemental” doesn’t have to mean “from animals.”
The living conditions of the chickens is just the tip of the iceberg. They require massive amounts of food and produce massive amounts of waste. Chicken poo is contributing to a huge pollution problem on some rivers in the UK, with the Wye being particularly badly affected in the last decade or so. Sewage and farming pollution combine to wipe out insect and fish populations, while feeding huge algal blooms that smother all other plant life in the river, along with fish spawning areas; collapsing the rest of the food chain in turn.
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Yes they the chicken farms have mass amounts of water ways they legally dump the waste into, totally permitted by the EPA.
Props to the journalists that were involved in the making of this video.
Thank you NYT and Mercy For Animals.
for the farmers too
For an in depth look at the rise of industrial chicken farming (as well as beef and pork, to a lesser degree) I highly recommend reading The Meat Racket by Christopher Leonard. It is a brilliant and thorough investigation into the practices of Tyson, specifically. It's horrific, truly.
Naa. Im good.
Here is a related video by Vox that shows how animal agriculture (especially factory farms) make pandemics, epidemics, and new antibiotic resistant pathogens a lot more likely.
ua-cam.com/video/hwuujiHvduc/v-deo.html
Previous zoonotic diseases from animals include swine flu, avian flu, SARS, AIDS, Ebola, and the last pandemic virus in 1918 which came from a small Kansas poultry farm.
what does it say about a society that treats their animals like this?
that eats animals that are treated like that?
Dude it’s just animals. These innovations are amazing for people. I wouldn’t want to live in your backwards idea of civilization where poor people can’t even afford chicken because it’s so important that the animal lives a good life before it’s executed.
@@appropriate-channelname3049 1) It's not necessary to eat meat or dairy in order to live a healthy or even athletic life. 2) Meat and dairy production entails pain, suffering and injury. This is our legal definition of animal cruelty.
So which of those two premises do you deny?
@@appropriate-channelname3049
Yah I'm sure it would just _ruin_ the lives of poor people if we forbid access to toxic and carcinogenic chicken.
@@novarem9828 worth there buddy that chicken is approved by the fda and cdc what are you some kind of conspiracy having science denier?
@@appropriate-channelname3049 You think because something is approved by the fda or cdc that means it isn’t harmful?
Dood, i feel that Old Man XD My flock of 23 are nearly 2 months old and it's soo exciting watching them grow
From my birth till today, I ate chicken twice, and I feel ashamed of it. 😭
No living being deserves this. We should be ashamed that this happens but all I can do and will do is to just leave a comment and forget it. What a terrible world.
Will you say this for something like say a bacterias.they are also living beings.maybe we should stop taking antibiotics when we get an infection just in case we hurt these living beings
@@debusinha9015 what is this strawman... next you're gonna tell me plants can feel pain so eating vegetables is being hypocritical. sod off
@@ruhfuhquh Fine, how about the scores of aquatic mammals such as whales, seals, orca, which feed on other living beings. In the case of whales they swallow fish whole, meaning that they are alive until either suffocating or being dissolved within the stomach of their predators.
@@randomman057 you are correct, animals do that. i assume the point you're alluding to is that cruelty (in our eyes; those animals need to survive) does exist in other animals which i am not denying. it is a terrible and unjust world out there. doesnt mean we cannot decrease how much suffering animals in the corporatized poultry (and other meats for that matter) industry get
@@ruhfuhquh Many of the animals that are suffering in this video are due to poor implementation of techniques. The air, the burns on the chickens? Result of bad practice from a farmer who probably hasn't changed the bedding for his chickens in some time, leading to it being oversaturated and toxic. The malformed chickens? Yeah, that's called life. In the same video were scores of chickens walking just fine and capable of moving; although, a bit surprising based on how the farmer is mismanaging his chickens. Genetic deformities are an unfortunate reality of evolution, not all mutations are beneficial. Some questions can be raised regarding how the chickens are bred, absolutely, but there will always be losses in farming, just as there are losses in life. It's a game of percentages, which becomes more noticeable due to the sheer volume of animals in one space.
By the way, that farmer, he's losing money for every single one of his chickens when they get to the processing plant that has obvious health issues. The USDA will reject them. It's in the farmer's best interest to preserve the health of those birds. His business and income depend on that. Sadly, not every farmer is a good farmer, and while I can't say exactly how this one got his chickens into this state, I imagine it was the result of him cutting corners in his own business.
Volume production certainly encourages problems. Chicken and other meat products should probably be 50-100% more expensive if everyone followed best practices. The corporations definitely put undue pressure on the farmers they contract with. However, if anyone is to blame for that, well, the regular culprits are to blame, the large supermarket chains who demand lower prices. Companies such as WalMart, Costco, even Target, are to blame, because they're the ones who are competing with one another trying to sell unsustainably cheap meat products.
This isn’t anything new; when I was 8 years old (1977) I had fun playing in the chicken barns on the farm (no worries about PPE back then) and those barns were almost identical to the video shown here: 100,000 laying hens in a single building, 5 to a cage, cages stacked 4 rows high, 3 aisles with columns of cages receding into the hazy distance. Those barns had conveyor belts to bring food to the chickens, and to take the eggs away for processing. Took me longer than it should have, to realize the disgusting cruelty that is inflicted on chickens, and to stop eating chickens and other animals.
But that doesn't help the farmer. It makes things worse. I think it should start with our votes. These politicians that pocket $300k to let this keep happening.
It was wrong back then too…
It's okay man, you were only a kid then. It's good that you don't eat chickens now. Most people can say that for themselves.
@@nancyfahey7518 The farmers can switch to growing crops. If the government funds the transition by helping them financially to do that, I would be in favor of that. My nephew and his wife own and operate a free range cattle ranch. I love them, but I spend a lot of my time convincing others to boycott their product. They could earn money a better way.
@@dharnishbr2709 Chicken is pretty tatsy tho 👀
Great video!!! Thank you!
I started buying from local farms, but its hard to get delivery and they eventually shut down selling to customers. It's crazy. Human lifestyles are unsustainable. We're headed for destruction.
Naa. We're good.
@@CrayPlaySwe can you say that again now?
Or... just... don't buy chicken at all...
This is what our grandchildren will judge us for
Right. Humans do not need to eat animals or what comes out of them to thrive! The largest organization of nutrition professionals officially said so-
"It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that appropriately planned vegetarian, including vegan, diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits for the prevention and treatment of certain diseases.
These diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, adolescence, older adulthood, and for athletes. Plant-based diets are more environmentally sustainable than diets rich in animal products because they use fewer natural resources and are associated with much less environmental damage. Vegetarians and vegans are at reduced risk of certain health conditions, including ischemic heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, certain types of cancer, and obesity. Low intake of saturated fat and high intakes of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, soy products, nuts, and seeds (all rich in fiber and phytochemicals) are characteristics of vegetarian and vegan diets that produce lower total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and better serum glucose control. These factors contribute to reduction of chronic disease. Vegans need reliable sources of vitamin B-12, such as fortified foods or supplements."
Link on my channel under "About."
@@someguy2135 Don't care. They taste good.
@@Tee_B I can speak for all of us when I say this. Since you only base your diet on taste, I hope you don't decide that you like the taste of human flesh!
@@someguy2135 Not sure if you're aware or not, but cannibalism is illegal and taboo.
@@Tee_B you can both eat meat and buy meat that has been raised in a much much better way. Sure eating less meat is better for the planet and your health, but if you still want to eat meat please buy better quality and not the cheapest stuff like in this video.
thank you so much for talking about this!!!!
Love the NYT. Honesty matters..
We need to end For-Profit Politicians and make it illegal for them to trade stock. We also need term limits on every higher power office like Governors or Senators.
I agree Nancy Pelosi needs to be ripped from her chair and put in the old folks homes her ilk sent covid patients.
@@Slaegar A cool cup of bleach will soothe your ire.
Good. Now do videos that do the same for cheap pig flesh, cow flesh, lamb flesh, turkey flesh, and fish.
Be sure to cover government subsidies and promotion.
Capitalism requires regulation
Yes, it starts with the politicians accepting bribes to turn their vote.
@@nancyfahey7518 Before that was the decision by the Supreme Court that allowed corporations to "contribute" unlimited amounts of money for campaigns.
Amen brother Jesus is lord
If the standard of animal husbandry is so high, why would any of these corporations object to filming on their farms?
Surely it would be a point of pride and camera teams would be welcomed with open arms.
Here in Australia, the big chain supermarkets mainly sell 'RSPCA approved' as standard chicken where the RSPCA (Animal Welfare org) inspects farm conditions regularly. We pay about AU$9 kilogram for that (sorry too early to convert that to USD and pounds) and you can also get 'certified free-range' chicken but that's out of my reach at AU$15 kilogram. It's massively expensive IMO but it's the norm here. Hopefully, US big stores will see there is a market for chickens raised with improved welfare.
As more and more Americans are living in poverty, it's going to be hard to convince people to pay more for their protein so they can alleviate the suffering of chickens.
@@nelidadumitrache7508 My understanding is that the cost of health care in the US is a contributing factor to poverty. The US is one of the last countries (certainly the last developed nation) to not provide a form of universal healthcare to its people. I'd suggest looking after its citizens would lead to better outcomes for animals as well. I mean no offence, I just see a link.
@@MrJames_1 Here is one link. Switching from eating animals and what comes out of them to a pure plant based diet can result in a much lower risk of needing the health care industry to deal with chronic conditions. Vegans have lower rates of ischemic heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, and multiple types of cancer.
Link to evidence on my channel under "About" then "Chronic."
Humans do not need to eat animals or what comes out of them to thrive! The largest organization of nutrition professionals officially said so-
"It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that appropriately planned vegetarian, including vegan, diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits for the prevention and treatment of certain diseases.
These diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, adolescence, older adulthood, and for athletes. Plant-based diets are more environmentally sustainable than diets rich in animal products because they use fewer natural resources and are associated with much less environmental damage. Vegetarians and vegans are at reduced risk of certain health conditions, including ischemic heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, certain types of cancer, and obesity. Low intake of saturated fat and high intakes of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, soy products, nuts, and seeds (all rich in fiber and phytochemicals) are characteristics of vegetarian and vegan diets that produce lower total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and better serum glucose control. These factors contribute to reduction of chronic disease. Vegans need reliable sources of vitamin B-12, such as fortified foods or supplements."
Link on my channel under "About."
Have you soon footage of the RSPCA approved farms in Australia?
Thank you, for making me realize that I am a broken cog in a broken machine in a broken world ran by broken people...yay
*run*
Stay a fight!
You can still do what you feel is right
The good news is that unlike many current problems, each of us can do something about this one. Boycott meat dairy and eggs. Humans do not need to eat animals or what comes out of them to thrive! The largest organization of nutrition professionals officially said so-
"It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that appropriately planned vegetarian, including vegan, diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits for the prevention and treatment of certain diseases.
These diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, adolescence, older adulthood, and for athletes. Plant-based diets are more environmentally sustainable than diets rich in animal products because they use fewer natural resources and are associated with much less environmental damage. Vegetarians and vegans are at reduced risk of certain health conditions, including ischemic heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, certain types of cancer, and obesity. Low intake of saturated fat and high intakes of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, soy products, nuts, and seeds (all rich in fiber and phytochemicals) are characteristics of vegetarian and vegan diets that produce lower total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and better serum glucose control. These factors contribute to reduction of chronic disease. Vegans need reliable sources of vitamin B-12, such as fortified foods or supplements."
Link on my channel under "About."
unfortunately the vast majority of people are unable to do anything about this. the "vote with your wallet" mentality isn't feasible and is effectively impossible for people in the bottom 50% of the US. government bailouts for farmers is likely the only way to change, but that would cost more money than any politician is willing to risk supporting
also the industry has bigger wallets and can literally vote with them by buying out Congress
A pure plant based diet can be cheaper than eating meat. Cheap staple foods include rice, beans, potatoes, pasta, oatmeal and bananas. Even in food deserts, many of these can be found in cans, dried or frozen.
In my experience most cheap food items in the US , at least , aren't meat. I eat meat myself so I'm not trying to push a diet on you , but I have been homeless and very poor for some years and a bag of rice , potatoes , a box of (generic brand) pasta , or canned/frozen fruit and vegetables were always cheaper and easier to prepare than any meat (except perhaps those little canned sausages. but those don't last long). Cereals , legumes , and starches won't taste as good as a burger or whatever but they'll last you longer for less money.
Thats not true. It is possible to end this industry. Go vegan. Dont eat chickens. Dont eat animals. It's possible. You don't have to be rich.
@@bryceandrewmusicofficial being vegan isn't sustainable or affordable. Vegan leather is just more plastic waste that causes environmental damage in production, use, and post-use. Only eating vegan food is a privilege I do not have. Stop assuming everyone can be vegan or that it is the answer to the world's problems.
If you want to reduce and eliminate this, then push for investments and expanding of lab grown chicken. It uses chicken cells without slaughtering a chicken. I know at least in Singapore it is being served. I'd happily try the lab grown chicken.
This is just so heartbreakingly sad. The only way things will change is if people stop buying meat. That’s the only ‘language’ they’ll understand - money. There’s so many good plant based alternatives, I hope this changes soon.
I agree. Until animal agriculture is ended, every buying decision that doesn't include meat dairy or eggs helps reduce the demand for them, and means fewer animals being bred into existence.
Learning to cook without animal flesh, eggs or dairy while making it delicious has never been easier. Check out the UA-cam channel "Cheap Lazy Vegan" for example. I have learned to use miso paste, and mushrooms to make my tofu and bean dishes savory and just as enjoyable as before I switched to a pure plant based diet.
Wrong, we are omnivores. What we need is everyone to raise their own food.
Never going to happen, but keep on fantasizing! I'm not for animal cruelty at all, but I'll never stop buying/eating chicken because of this video, or any other like it.
people like meat tho, so.... change will have to come from some other way
I haven't eaten meat in 14 years and lately I've been wanting to get eggs out of my diet too. This is a really helpful video to encourage me. Thank you
You could always buy eggs straight from home chicken raisers. A lot of people raise a few chickens and sell eggs on the side.
Thank you for this.
This is why I've been a vegetarian since 1968.
What are your thoughts on the culling of day old male chicks for eggs?
Have you ever considered going vegan? The same cruelty that animals raised for meat endure apply to dairy cows and egg laying hens.
unfortunately, consuming eggs still endorses this kind of suffering. Make chickens are shredded alive right after hatching because they're not deemed as "profitable". Consuming dairy also endorses this kind of inhumane behavior, as cows and calves go trough immense suffering for producing dairy products. Going vegan is the best way to reduce the most animal suffering and our impact on the ecosystem, as stated by the WHO and other Universities.
@@Rat__Wife, vegan food is often just crap.
I simply don't eat chicken.
@Chordstride
Same. These hippies crack me up. I'm a carnivore who will continue to be carnivorous. I place people above animals. I just don't think about it and I don't care at all. I'd rather they were killed humanely. If they aren't though, well, that's a shame....now....let's eat!
@Chordstride lmao
Unfortunately, many Americans don’t have the luxury to not eat cheap chicken. More than 10% of Americans live at or below the poverty line and more than half a million people are homeless. So the problem shouldn’t be placed on the consumer, but rather on politicians and the meat industry.
This is so disgusting!!! The government should really step up and do something about these conditions!
Would love to see how the poor living conditions of chicken's connect's to human health.
Eating chickens of any sort, as well as eating other animals (and what comes out of them) is detrimental to health and longevity. Vegans have lower rates of ischemic heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, and multiple types of cancer. That was the finding of the peer reviewed Adventist Studies. Link on my channel under "About."
@@someguy2135 being realistic, people are not going to stop eating chicken. If the healthier chicken is the pasture raised one people should look more for that than the cheapest one. I just watched this video and have seen earthlings and other docs but it doesn't make me want to stop eating animals, I want them to be treated better.
I can't imagine putting that kind of sickness and violence into your body is good for you.
@@iamthepinkylifter like I said in my previous comment, people are not going to stop eating chicken/meat. Making the animals lives better before they are off to market would be better for them and the people that consume them
Thank you for this video
Lol I don't even live in the US but I got an ad from pilgrim's pride before this video started, with the tagline "taste matters"
Totally not new to me. I have watched a few documentaries more than a decade ago. The situation exactly like this. That's how we support the populations. The reality is dark.
do you mean humans by "populations"? there are other ways to feed people, other ways to "get your protein"
@@helenadurst5993 Absoulately, but humans love cosume chickens. Just look at those mukbangers, they eats lots of fried chicken in one meal. Hard to change people into other ways to gett protein. This sadly is the truth.
@@Kevin-finity Companies like Beyond Meat are doing just that. JUST is actually doing it with clean, cultured (aka lab) meat.
I appreciate the perspective this shared with me on the food that I eat. I don't want to be eating something that caused an abundance of suffering from both animals AND farmers. Farmers who are only trying to desperately keep their job and lifestyle sustainable. I eat lentils and rice almost everyday because I want to keep my negative impact minimal when it comes to the meat industry. I don't blame people if they support the industry indirectly, but the fact that farms can't show the truth behind their produce is absolutely disgusting. People want to know what they're eating. This needs to change.
I’m glad I have my chickens and soon small cattle 👌🏼 nothing better than having some land being your own boss
I have come to realize that eating animal based food is an addiction. You are raised into it with family and cultural traditions, the famous grand ma recipe that bring such warm memories. You become addicted to the taste, the texture. That's why it is so hard to get out of it even if your brain and reasons tells you it is so wrong for your health, the planet and the animals who suffers. Realistically we know that most of the dairy and meat is the product of extraordinary cruelty designed by people to maximize revenue. It also generate horrendous jobs. These business need to convert fast. And consumers too (we can drive the change).
Last - but not least - the government needs to stop the ridiculously high subsidies that support meat and dairy but put any plant and vegetable diet at a great disadvantage because consumer pay so much for vegetables. Send the dollars to veggie and fruit farmers!
Agribusiness needs to become agriculture again.
Powerfully personal, provoking and worth sharing! This type of inhumane treatment, antibiotics, and use of genetically modified, resource-heavy animal feed are the main reasons that I gradually stopped eating chicken and other farm animals over 10 years ago. Aside from a few times in the first year or two, I've NEVER missed chicken or other meat. If I were ever to eat it again, I'd make sure it's organic and free-range.
It seems to me that the main reasons people crave chicken are not so much the chicken itself -- but rather the fat, salt and seasonings added to most chicken-based foods. Chicken eaters also like to claim that it's a "healthy" source of protein. The good news is, we can easily get those same flavors and protein amounts in plant-based products if you like them, or by cooking at home with high-protein whole foods, salts and spices. 😃
The whole problem is the overpopulation... educated almost 8 billion people about plant-based food is a journey decades long ahead. And the agribusiness will delay this while they can.
Can't figure out how to eat ethical chicken? That's because it can't be done. The only ethical "chikn" is made from plants. Eventually, it will be made using lab technology without the need for inflicting suffering and death to innocent, sentient beings.
Learning to cook without animal flesh, eggs or dairy while making it delicious has never been easier. Check out the UA-cam channel "Cheap Lazy Vegan" for example. I have learned to use miso paste, and mushrooms to make my tofu and bean dishes savory and just as enjoyable as before I switched to a pure plant based diet.
Anyone who wants an in depth version of this vid should watch Supersize Me 2
This is exactly what news channels should focus on
And chicken is not in anyway necessary for a diet to begin with.
Eat more beans. There about the same price per pound, but don't have this mess to content with and aren't getting the subsidies meat does to bring the price down.
Beans don't taste like chicken.
@@nancyfahey7518 it's always a fight between the taste buds and our health, but atleast reduced consumption and eating pasture raised meat once or twice a week will do more good for all of us
@Karthik sivakumar I almost always eat grass-fed and pasture raised. I recently lost my rooster to a hawk, but the chickens lay enough eggs for our family. I will continue with another rooster but he was my sweety. I think I'm in morning..
beans make me hella gassy but it's a price I'm willing to pay
Beans taste awesome. There’s a million types of beans
I feel so sorry for the farmer who lost everything and feels so much for the animals.
Super Size Me 2 made a great documentary on it!
This is literally animal abuse
Thank you captain obvious lol that's what the video is about. Did you watch Guardians of The Galaxy and feel the need to say "Guys this is llllllllliterally an action movie"?
I've been to a chicken farm.......the smell is the worst and I didn't even get inside a coop, just stayed in my car!
The workers didn't smell a thing!
And were there flies all over your car? I was there trucking, at Tyson, and couldn't believe the flies.
@@nancyfahey7518 It was a private farm, didn't notice the flies.
Hello friends!!! I wish the best for everyone. Blessings
"I guess it's lasagna after all..." Immediately sees NYT's video on Corporate Beef Farms.....
It could have been a plant based lasagna. The one in the video wasn't though.
Ugh. Imagine the ones used for pet food!
These broiler chickens are usually only for human consumption
Animal food is mostly old used up egg layers and scraps
Bones, feathers and blood are all sold to be used also as fertilizers.
Technically this is very environmentally friendly if it were local.
安いものってやっぱり何処かで搾取が行われているんですね😢
農場でも工場でも店でも、消費者に届くまでの全ての段階で搾取が行われている。
The chicken at the grocery store also has arsenic in it too.
And often salmonella, etc.
This is horrible, humanity doesn’t deserve this world. We’re all garbage.
@nytimes Thank you for the truth!✊🆘♥️
Some really good plant-based chicken nuggets and patties aee in the freezer at your kocal grocery store (If you are lucky enough to have one).
I like Gardein.
I like qorn chickn nuggets! More so than I ever did real ones.
Everyone seems to forget that there are 7 billion people on this planet
Guys it’s simple. Keep the people ignorant and happy. You can rob them slowly without even realizing
It's hard to find humane raised meats ...
After watching that and others docs about these issues, plant based diet don't look that bad !
going vegan was the best choice i've made, trust
@@MollyAhern It's hard for me to go vegan, but I don't eat red meat and have reduce meat protein intake the most I could !
@@maudepotvin8660 What's difficult about it? What do you normally consume which isn't vegan?
Wait until you hear how plants are being mistreated
well there aren't true "humane" way of killing meat due to how society constantly changes views on what is acceptable, we can however set a timeless sets of humane conditions for consumed cattles to live before its butchering process.... i found that free range chiken in your backyard or a (good)local cattler are one of the ways you can guarantee a humane meat. on top of that, if the butcher doesnt use a machine but rahter use their own two hands to slaughter the cattle, it is humane because you understand the weight of life and the sacrifice of life to feed another. using a machine takes away that unique empathy that humans have been experiencing ever since we became hunters.
Who are those people who run these companies exactly? What are their names? Where do they live? How do they explain the cruelty and level of apparently unsupervised control that they have been executing all this time?
Good questions. What can each of us do about it? Boycott their products.
Humans do not need to eat animals or what comes out of them to thrive! The largest organization of nutrition professionals officially said so-
"It is the position of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics that appropriately planned vegetarian, including vegan, diets are healthful, nutritionally adequate, and may provide health benefits for the prevention and treatment of certain diseases.
These diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood, adolescence, older adulthood, and for athletes. Plant-based diets are more environmentally sustainable than diets rich in animal products because they use fewer natural resources and are associated with much less environmental damage. Vegetarians and vegans are at reduced risk of certain health conditions, including ischemic heart disease, type 2 diabetes, hypertension, certain types of cancer, and obesity. Low intake of saturated fat and high intakes of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, soy products, nuts, and seeds (all rich in fiber and phytochemicals) are characteristics of vegetarian and vegan diets that produce lower total and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol levels and better serum glucose control. These factors contribute to reduction of chronic disease. Vegans need reliable sources of vitamin B-12, such as fortified foods or supplements."
Link on my channel under "About."
@@someguy2135 Wow! You sure did your research? Have you already written a book on the subject or are you thinking about it? ^^
Bill Gates, costco, Walmart come on wake up.
90% of your vegetarian diet is GMO'S
So that's helping what. If they are not GMOs their being grow on nutritionally depleted soil, with Roundup contamination. Again wake up.
@@SJA-ox3hs Thanks for reminding them :) It'll be super rad when that guy wakes up - OMG! ;D
Worth it!
I’ve worked as a quality control technician at Sanderson Farm for 3 1/2 years them birds be looking sick
Its not about cheap chicken, its about end seller trying to maximise profit (popular fast food, expensive restaurants, etc.).
Interestingly, average day earnings in my country are about 13$, but 1KG (2.2lb) of chicken costs about 7$. It's ~2.5$ in US.
Hence why in the beginning of the video she said "These conditions are the byproduct of a system designed to maximize profits..."
This is wholly disgusting. And it's cruel. Cramped conditions. Fecal matter everywhere. Bad air. The chickens are suffering and seeing other chickens dying and being killed. It's not healthy for them and not healthy for us and it's psychologically demoralizing. There has to be another way.
There is.
There is one.. go vegan
@@kittylovesrbija We could limit the chicken consumption to a minimum. That's another.
brilliant video. i'm commenting to get more attention for the algorithm
I got a Perdue chicken add on this 😂
Aside from the horrendous conditions of this chicken factory, think about eating this disgusting meat full of sores and tumors. I'm no PETA nut, but if you buy chicken at any store, this is what you get. And chicken parts, like legs, breasts, etc., are allowed to be packaged after being taken from chickens with huge tumors and sores on other parts of their bodies. Sore and tumors are just cut off, and those chicken parts go into making nuggets, tenders, etc. If you can't quit eating this for the chicken's sake, think about not eating it for YOUR sake. Be careful videographer, the food industry has made filming or spying on these places a felony. Imagine, making it a felony to report on or try to stop this kind of situation. The greed in this country is out of control.
You didn't mention that germs from feces are very common due to the process used for slaughter. That's why raw chicken is so dangerous.
why I went vegetarian.
@@mrbananoid only ones from my a nearby farm 10 minutes away
Thank you @LucyKing
"I guess its lasagna after all" just wait until they release a video about cattle farming!
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This is heartbreaking.
I do remember seeing this in Mr. Beans Holiday
I feel like a monster right now
Next Week: Coffee, chocolate, quinoa and salmon.
Got any links?
This is horrible...
I'm from India I eat deshi chickens, I bring them from village, they grows naturally but yah their price is little high ...they taste way better than broilers.
KFC ad immediately before this video. Lol
This is actually pretty decent compared to farms where they grow chickens in cages so they save room (multiple stories) and they cut off the beaks and nails so they won't hurt each other because if the confined space.
If we're calling out "natural" for not meaning anything, surely we should also say the same for "organic" since neither are regulated terms.
As much as I am aware of the injustices done by these corporations and suffering to these animals, for someone who doesn't have much money I will still go for cheaper chicken. Hard truths
same short term i can't change, especially with family, but in the long-term its worth thinking about. I'd rather suffer not having chicken than be an indirect cause for this, though it is too tasty to give up now.
Literally nothing new here. The mass market cheap meat industry is horrific and disgustingly inhumane. We've known this for decades.
I got off the meat and dairy drug 4 years ago.
Organic, ethical, vegan. Never felt better. ✌️😎♥️
I looked into and watched this video because I heard my family speaking about it being over 10 dollars a pound
"I guess it's lasagna after all"...first let's take a look at the beef industry.