animalwelfairy

What do you perceive to be the biggest factor contributing to poor welfare in commercial chicken farming? What do you think can (and should) be done to improve standards?
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Surely targeting breeding companies to start breeding for slower growth is really important? CIWF could aim campaigns in this direction? As any environmental improvements we make for chickens won't make a real difference if genetically they can't cope with their growth. Do you think breeding companies would be open to this based on welfare grounds?

What if people ate less chicken, so there was less demand and therefore you did not have to produce as many birds. But the price of chicken increased so farmers do not lose money? Surely this would allow for lower stocking density and raising slower growing birds which don't suffer from leg deformities for example? Would this not be feasible idea to aim for?

This needs more recognition.

Animal welfare stands a much better chance if we can get the majority to eat less meat, than a handful of people to go vegetarian or vegan.

But the idea is that if there is less demand, it won't make sense to up production and increase supply?

When supply increases with price it usually means demand is still increasing higher than supply is. Which is not what I'm suggesting. I'm suggesting that demand goes down?