Why is chicken so cheap?

People eat 65 billion chickens every year. It is the fastest-growing meat product. Yet pound for pound the price of chicken has fallen sharply. How has this happened?
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Chickens are the most populous bird on the planet. There are 23 billion of them at any given time - that's ten times more than any other bird. It's by far the fastest growing meat product but pound for pound the price of chicken has fallen sharply. How has this happened?
This farm is at the forefront of a technology revolution that has drastically changed chicken farming. It's run by David Speller who's pioneered the use of CCTV and CO2 monitors in chicken sheds. Along with his own farm, he works as a consultant overseeing the raising of around 3 million chickens in the UK.
Chickens were first domesticated over 8,000 years ago but it wasn't until the 1940s that major efforts were made to create a super breed. The chicken of tomorrow competition in America would change chickens forever.
Today the lifecycle of broilers, chickens that are bred purely for their meat, is entirely preordained. They grow faster and bigger than ever before and they can only live supported by human technology. Chickens have changed so quickly they are now four times the size they were in the 1950s.
A barnyard chicken can live up to 10 years showing the huge evolutionary change the broilers have undergone. But selective breeding on a global scale comes at a cost. If the chickens live beyond their planned life they develop huge medical problems. And there are concerns the chicken industry is relying on an increasingly small gene pool.
Keeping chickens in battery cages was banned in the EU in 2012 but some people want to create better lives for broiler chickens. Free-range birds have more access to open air runs, while organic chickens are typically free from antibiotics, hormones and other synthetic chemicals. Organic chickens get to live the longest - 81 days compared to intensively reared birds which live between 35 and 40 days. Free-range chickens get the most access to open air runs but when it comes to living space, organic and free-range fair far better than intensively reared birds where as many as 17 adult birds live in a single square metre.
Organic farming might offer animals a greater quality of life but consumers are largely driven by cost and in an average UK supermarket, an intensively reared chicken cost several times less than its free-range or organic cousins.
Over 95% of broiler chickens are intensively reared in the UK. Organic and free-range chickens make up the rest. For as long as shoppers want cheap and plentiful chicken, they will continue to be bred ever more intensively.
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[@g.c.t.v6669]

All the chickens you see there are dead by now

[@PurpleLotusSamsara]

I was thinking the same thing ...makes you not want to even eat it.

[@LeonDieBoer]

so what?

[@horseblinderson4747]

Another batch is half done already.

[@StephJ0seph]

You probably had one for dinner, lol.

[@callummason6589]

Also people- chicken should be free to roam, but my child shall be in day care.

[@scareleague9551]

People: chickens should roam free without any cages. also people: why is this cage free chicken so expensive?

[@hiozealben1424]

It worth tho, not only for the cost, but also the taste.

[@PITAH1]

Brilliant comment

[@expolrun9196]

HIOZEAL BEN Dont be fooled. The only eggs that are truely free are pasture raised. Cage free eggs are eggs that aren’t in a cage but is still restricted outside access and stays in a factory

[@NunYa953]

@@hiozealben1424 If you believe that "cage free" chickens taste any different I've got a bridge for sale. People like you prove that there is a sucker for every scam.

[@danb2450]

Scare League probably cost so much because foxes kill half of them.

[@yourstoryteller68]

when you sacrifice your life for them, but they still call you cheap

[@glauco6454]

Eshaan Rahman “sacrifice”; -assuming they do it willingly-

[@Harman.s.ghotra]

@NKVD I dont think so

[@kud3]

@NKVD buying free range chicken is more expensive

[@cringename4391]

@NKVD and also most free range are just rebrand factory chicken

[@cringename4391]

@NKVD a lot of free range are just factory chicken

[@sanchitrastogi55]

Chiken is not even a animal anymore, it's just a crop that non vegetarians grow!

[@aaronalias8099]

What I didn't understand anything

[@GamingBogart]

Like cows them beefs tastes best mmmmmmmm!!!!!

[@AjaySharma-le3df]

@@GamingBogartif u can afford, eat all u want

[@nahor88]

Not true; she's pretty explicit in the video that only that BREED of chickens is raised for food. Plenty of people raise chickens of other breeds for other purposes, even as pets.

[@persiancat1597]

@Original Protestant 👍👍👍👍👍

[@nateriver7848]

People : Chickens deserve better lives! Also people : I want the cheapest chicken you got.

[@eunicelim910]

Yeaa, that's the reality.. Cuz chickens are mainly the source of protein

[@strygwr]

thats human nature

[@c5097170]

People who buy organic don’t care about price. They only want healthiest option.

[@50shekels]

Nate River way to separate yourself from us “people”

[@SharapovaFan]

People want their cake and eat it too. In this case, chicken. Not cake.

[@brokenwizards9122]

4x since 1950. A few more decades and we can finally see that horse-sized chicken.

[@igornikolic8192]

Like the sekiro chicken enemy haha

[@drewcipher896]

BOK BOK Bitch

[@MannyRiberaOriginal]

Sadly humans will grow at the same rate, so dont expect chicken rides.

[@jonalaurenson7242]

I’m looking forward to that 🤤

[@Raemnant]

Mega Ultra chicken. He is legend

[@stephencoleman3578]

I worked for a well known chain of intensive chicken factory farms. 2 men cared for 500,000 chickens. The chickens were sold as organic free range, but they were not organic or free range. I had to sign a non-disclosure contract for the job and was prohibited from speaking to the press. I detested the job, not because of smells, flies. poor pay or dead chickens. It was because the chickens had more personality than the supervisors.

[@bloopbloopy2893]

Oof... Well this is why people should do research on where they buy their chickens from....😔 Everyone knows buying from smaller farmers is always more ethical then big corporate companies.

[@user-lo8fd4ml4l]

@Bloop Bloopy you are right✅

[@user-lo8fd4ml4l]

@@bloopbloopy2893 ا

[@speaklifegardenhomesteadpe8783]

Could you advise what eggs or chickens NOT to purchase? Thank you so much for your comment!!

[@LeoTheYuty]

yikes

[@dylanhilton8431]

"Why is chicken so cheap" Looks at KFC actually being overpriced....

[@_ruted]

Sam's chicken at woodland park is pretty cheap mate ngl

[@_ruted]

its a reference to the cnsr btw

[@BroAnarchy]

crazy, isn't it??

[@jonathanhhos3105]

Well its a business need to make money Buy chicken here is about 7 dollars

[@hejalll]

Regular packaged chicken breast is more expensive than ground beef, at least here in Denmark.

[@boosay568]

Cats and Dogs: Let's ensure our species survival by being men best friend! Chicken: Hold my grains.

[@azucenasantes7447]

Naim Noor I actually got two chickens and a dog 😂😂👏.. in the city I see chickens as pets

[@czdaniel1]

@@azucenasantes7447-- I saw a girl walking her pig in the city, once or twice

[@Heavywall70]

czdaniel1 Where’d the pig go?

[@carinag4635]

8O8clap can you just stop bringing a cat vs. dog debate into a joke

[@shysensei2348]

😂😂😂😂😂👏🏻

[@billdooder2558]

Oddly enough, the people eating them are now also 4x the size they were in the 1950's

[@ExplosiveLandmine]

Quantity is an important factor too, meat has alot of calories

[@tekkenfan01]

Speak for yourself, I m actually 5x bigger

[@jaredgarbo3679]

@Kaptain Kid Good point of those people were to eat chicken they would probably lose weight

[@adrianfernand33s]

@@a.a.6203 i would love to dine at your house one day

[@moesyzslak2939]

Bill 😥😂😂😂😂😂

[@carolBee2023]

I'm an indigenous chicken farmer in Kenya and this is one of the reasons why I chose to keep the chicken. What is known as " improved indigenous chicken" is fast taking over the market and, I feel that, the purely indigenous chicken are going extinct. Battery caged birds are also the saddest things I've ever seen. Can't do it 😞

[@XAVIER-on4yv]

The reason they do this is because supply and demand, they only care about profits

[@donnaallgaier-lamberti3933]

MY organic chicken in SW Michigan is $2.99 a lb. I looked at a chicken tomorrow at Aldies and a two pack of 2, 2 lb. chickens was almost $30.00!! When my son and granddaughter come for dinner that $30.00 for the meat. That means almost $60.00 for Sunday dinner for 4!

"chickens have changed so quickly, they are now four times the size they were in the 1950's" same as the average American :D

[@gaaheeify]

Bold of you to say that nguyen, when the UK surpassed americans in obesity lmao

[@prodigous21]

Ah i see, spouting what you see on youtube everyday.

[@etherealhawk]

@@gaaheeify citation lol? also you're more than 250x more likely to die from food related conditions like food poisoning in the US compared to the UK

[@gaaheeify]

@@etherealhawk 69% of males are obese in the UK, the index is 66% in the USA. You can literally find the info by the WHO, don't whine

[@gaaheeify]

@@prodigous21 read a PRR casual gtfo

[@afarhan21]

Refuses to call chickens cheap because they are animals. Then goes ahead and calls them a product.

[@Lowfar]

What happens when you find out, you are a product.

[@ConstantChaos1]

@@supercrazyba ikr, one is definitely degrading while the other is like at least I have value lmao

[@owenb8636]

Gotta depersonalize them at some point

[@ConstantChaos1]

@@owenb8636 they aren't people

[@owenb8636]

@@ConstantChaos1 sorry, is there a word for not associating meat with the animals they come from that I should have used? Because otherwise it's pretty much the same thing.

[@alihassanmalhi7553]

My grandfather: Don't eat broiler. It can barely walk itself, how it's gonna make you run 😂😂😂

[@shahul8222]

😂

[@agailham8476]

Many people are saying that haha

[@Koloradus96]

Let me help you out: Eat quality food. - Your grandfather

[@subramanianmuthusamy9700]

We can be very healthy in a vegan diet too bro

[@croatian_menace]

There is a lot of truth in these words..

[@Yorosero]

Back in the day my Chinese parents and grandparents could only afford a chicken on special days like Chinese New Year and even then that was split between 6 siblings, with the best part going to the youngest. Now a whole chicken costs about a £5 which is significantly less than an hour's work worth of wages.

[@veryconfused9768]

Yes they made it cheap using chemical

[@AJ-vs3yz]

@@veryconfused9768 your comment makes sense, when looking at your account name

[@elainegeokchenglow5299]

same to mine. when i was young, the chicken meat tasted and the soup smelled totally different from now.

[@AntiFurrybruh]

Same applies to Indian too, our grand parents ate vegetables and chickens were considered for rare occasions, as chicken where expensive not only because Indians were poor, but because of lack of technology, after Green revolution and 1991 free market reforms (End of socialist era) People are rich and biotechnology is abundant. Hence chicken is now available everyday on table. Asia is seen alot of bad times.

[@yunguangjin8728]

Everyday KZbin algorithm is giving me more and more random stuff and I ain't even mad.

[@vagasint.4345]

The end is near

[@LolLol-up2oy]

Same bro

[@unusuario5173]

There's no need for 'channels' from ye olde network/cable/satellite tv. KZbin already offers me what I want to watch. How does it know it? Beats me.

[@cynthiaayers7696]

They keep a record of what you do like to watch, then they recommend. Kind of like the librarian that knows you and the books you usually check out. Back in the day, they called that a paper trail............🔄. Now, it's called tracking algorithms.... so if you sit and watch trucks, mountain bikes, or whatever all the time, that's what you will find in your recommended.

[@user-uq3um5nq7d]

Atleast I'm not bored That's what matters

[@ramandeepsingh2260]

I love how they try to make the video less cruel using music 😂

[@Therongunner]

Define cruel?

[@conversationswithyou5737]

I was thinking the exact same thing 😂. If they put dark horror music behind this, this video would send a completely different message.

[@vincenttheo8841]

This is the power of rhetorics, which indeed includes the BGM.

[@luigidisanpietro3720]

@@conversationswithyou5737 I remembered Chicken Run actually...

[@V1Pin]

I love how people are so soft that they think eating meat is cruel 😂

[@jonathanmcaleece9834]

I’m sure people think this is inhumane. However the reality of it all is everyone wants food at rock bottom price so they can spend it on the latest iPhone or Xbox.

[@dhruvg8472]

Don't count vegetarians like me.

[@Ninjasplitter]

Vegetables are just as cheap if not cheaper and don’t result in dead animals.

[@dkwhattouseasusername1012]

@@Ninjasplitter actually there are some places where vegetables are more expensive than meat

[@frankchen4229]

@@dkwhattouseasusername1012 yea but dont neglect the fact the cheapest items on the market are rice and beans

[@dkwhattouseasusername1012]

@@frankchen4229 well do you just eat 1 rice or something you count it by 1kg and sometimes they are still more expensive than meat

[@svanteforsman8244]

Chicken farmer: It’s healthy. The next Bird Flu virus: Hold my beer.

[@a2e5]

At least cooking works on viruses. BSE on the other hand…

[@namenotfound8747]

Your comment didn’t age well. Only a sec of Chinese people eat bats and we got COVID, no where near how many people eat chicken. If we know anything about viruses is that if their ever was a deadly virus bats would be low on the list and most be would say chicken, beef, pork would be at the top, fish maybe too. Yet that didn’t happen. Even when you posted your comment, it was obsolete since we were in the middle of pandemic. How tone deaf could you be?

[@Danny-li6ht]

Farmer: “these chickens aren’t cheap they have worth” The Economist: “why are chickens so cheap”

[@ncrtrooper3841]

No animal should be treated as property. Progress is inevitable.

[@Lion-dm5xg]

You are wrong. To the farmer, they are no less than a crop they can hurt any way they want.

[@alalbiston694]

Farmer: “these chickens aren’t cheap they have worth but that means we can still cull male chicks and fatten up chickens so they can't even walk."

[@MFRiley]

That's how I know I'm broke... I think chicken is expensive..

[@Crawkid]

depends...how much is a whole chicken for you? I know price has gone up recently around here

[@UNKNOWNANG3L]

@@Crawkid around where? Around KZbin ? :/

[@Crawkid]

@@UNKNOWNANG3L ...no....the UP of Michigan, as it were. I don't buy my chicken from youtube XD

[@Generatorsarefake]

@@MFRiley damn triggered

[@chandranshpandey1929]

In india prices are around 2 dollar for a whole chicken, i think its cheap even for indians

[@robf1801]

"It's our job to nurture them" *shows chicken concentration camp*

[@subramanianmuthusamy9700]

That's why people are going vegan

[@avatar1867]

@@subramanianmuthusamy9700 Lol what people

[@0xsunil]

@@avatar1867 he said people bro. not wild animals.

[@wpyoga]

"If the demand was there, we'd all be doing it" -- well said.

[@adan3956]

Poor chicken. They're too delicious to live on this world

[@stebarg]

I guess they taste the same as you and me.

[@vagasint.4345]

Stefan idk I have to check that

[@mustafajuventino9964]

😂😂😂😂

[@Pau_Pau9]

😢😋

[@duyson5632]

😋😋😋

[@nono1058]

Nobody: KZbin algorithm: "Why is chicken so cheap?"

[@michalblasko8740]

Please tell me what does mean "Nobody:"

[@Jkapricorn]

Noone said anything about chicken, I get a vid in my recommendations lol so random.

[@Jkapricorn]

@Shin90 I'm a vegetarian myself, I'm like wtf

[@adrian15049]

@Simply Mindfulness if you need a reason to be vegan than you are not vegan even if you think you are

[@crisscrosszx]

well, i was talking with my niece about KFC 1 hour ago, then this pops out of nowhere... Coincidence? I don't think so

[@n.n5641]

Why is chicken so cheap- because you're rich Why is chicken so costly- because you're poor

[@random-b-i2480]

Why there's kids in my basement- because i can eat them later

[@user-zi1gg4cn5h]

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[@lalalhmar6118]

Hosa asey bro.

[@aim__freakz8499]

not at all. that's the problem cheap meat is mostly eaten by poorer people.

[@gammoth_]

The conveyor belt part gave me chills.

[@Johnniewalker78]

Calling all chickens cheap is kind of rude. Some are just frugal.

[@dayakwarfighter7477]

Some just play hard to get

[@psilynt1]

Only the chicks cheep.

[@pablodavidclavijo4609]

They just understand the importance of financial solvency

[@LeeRaldar]

@trstnhn What kind of tenuous link is this?

[@ivobreeschoten5442]

@trstnhn specieist

[@garylinyongjia2574]

Humans:The chickens in this look cute. Also humans: watching this while eating KFC

[@midnightblues9974]

Damn that's so true only eating I'm zaxbys, but still!

[@techguy3424]

Animals can be both cute and delicious.

[@ryuuou07]

I was going to to watch this while eating Buffalo Wild Wings but I decided against it.

[@betterthannice6131]

They are both friends and food :)

[@currently_In_stealth_behind_u]

lmao same

[@RubinaMerchant]

Just got my first pet chicken 5 days ago, they have intelligence, character and attitude. Hate to see them in cages and assembly lines :( if everyone are chicken once a month only, people like him would not need to be "market driven". Very sad that we as consumer drive this cruelty.

[@kateybanez9304]

I agree, I myself have a pet rooster and chickens. They all have grown to me and my family and we love them very dearly. They learn fast and peck at us when they want something we are eating especially during dinner, we let them roam free at our house most of the time so they get really fond about what we do daily. We have a rice dispenser where you push buttons to dispense rice out and our pet rooster would attempt to press buttons as well and pull out the container to get raw rice. Its very smart of him and its very questionable since most people assume chickens are very unintelligent and are biologically born to have smaller brains. They can and have character the same as we have trained our cats and our dogs, but often people go with dogs and cats since their adorable and reliable, not to mention a very amazing attraction to media. Its heartbreaking that I myself love eating chicken and that the reason why these companies continue to thrive is because of consumers like us that support their business. And knowing that I have pet chickens at home is literally like eating another one of them unintentionally.

[@onemoregodrejected9369]

Pets and consumption animals are different. Using a pet as food is basically a crime and inhumane since we supose to love the pet as a fellow family member while food is food. Regardless the race of the food (besides human, we really have 5o avoud that one animal race in particular since goea against our survival...) any domestic race can turn into pet if gets a family but we cannot deny our necesities. Also many pets are carnivore so...

[@bloopbloopy2893]

@@kateybanez9304 just eat less and make sure the chickens you eat had at least a decent life. It's biology to want meat so don't feel bad but it's not biology to eat battery chickens.

[@kateybanez9304]

@@bloopbloopy2893 oh no, I dont eat the chicken I take care as a pet. Please dont mistake it like that, because I usually dont even get to eat chicken often, also, I was just elaborating that now that i have a chicken as a pet i feel bad about eating their kind. Oh goodness, I do not mean to eat my pets.

[@cma6812]

Cages and disassembly* lines!

[@noblebrown6580]

“Why is chicken so delicious” should be the next video

[@somuchsmartmic6199]

*KFC Wants to know your location*

[@pawpad1777]

KFC already knows the location

[@andyh7777]

Jokes on you, KFC actually use rodent meat

[@supashep1]

@@andyh7777 you mean flying rodent aka chicken of the cave lol

[@ahmedp800]

Texas Chicken also 😂😂

[@andyh7777]

@@supashep1 one of the only good quotes in a terrible movie

[@kathyfausett9301]

This video says far more about humans than chickens.

[@user-xd4sk4pk7h]

So true, 7 billion humans but over 23 billion chickens. How greedy have we become...

[@BrianAndersonTT]

@@user-xd4sk4pk7h and that 23 is going to far less than 7.

[@kathyfausett9301]

@@JumboCod91 Smart? Not so sure. The birds might have the last laugh.

[@markgerhard1362]

@@JumboCod91 Most humans are as dim as you: they are intellectually incapable of empathizing with the suffering of another species.

[@890W216]

Mark Gerhard does the lion sympathise for the deer?

[@AlexSantF]

''if animals don't want to be eaten why are they made out of food?''

[@Shiva-jj6vb]

Exactly.

[@fashiue6615]

"If humans arent meant to be eaten why are they made out of meat?"

[@AlexSantF]

@idk It's just a joke 0-0

[@AlexSantF]

@idk it's not too hard to understand.. We eat their flesh. So.. they're in some way made out of "food", because we eat them

[@gentlestickman3680]

@idk dude it's just a dumb joke. Not sure why this is so hard for you to get.

[@liezlemeredith]

Chickens deserve so much more respect!

[@DesertVox]

The whole 'ANIMAL RIGHTS' issue gets black-holed in this case. Otherwise, 1 mistreated dog will get 1,000 media-hours coverage.

[@fryliver4953]

Yeah I'm a vegetarian but eye-roll whenever there's some massive animal rights media campaign over a monkey or mistreated cat or something. That's like 0.00001% of the animals murdered. Odd how people irrationally anthropomorphise some animals over others

[@osmantv6901]

@G or you lack basic comprehension skills

[@XOPOIIIO]

Chicken are stupid, they don't know they are exploited. Dogs, on the other hand, are very close to humans psychologically and can feel almost the same as humans.

[@Lewis360]

@@XOPOIIIO Pigs are way smarter than dogs, and are much closer to humans in terms of biology, yet pork is the most eaten meat in the world.

[@XOPOIIIO]

@@Lewis360 Yes, but still they are not smart enough to understand that they are victims. I believe though that there must be improvement in butchering process, in many places it's still quite painful and scary for them, I believe they must be electrocuted before they even know what is happening.

[@AbdullahDakhaikh]

"They are not cheap.. They have worth..." Video title "chicken so cheap".. I like the thank-you-for-your-opinion way...

[@maceinmyeyes6915]

Pretty sure he wasn’t the one who made the video lmaooo

[@bestamerica]

' hi A D... who is a word - THEY -

[@AbdullahDakhaikh]

@@bestamerica go to 3:05

[@jeanmahmoudventilateur3480]

When they speak about chicken is the meat, do you buy a living chicken every day ?

[@coldogno7]

cheap is cheap....many ppl throw away unfinished food in uk,killing a life but only best part are eaten while the rest like head,liver,feet are thrown away like valueless garbage atleast in some asian country we eat most of it...even the intestine!

[@francissantos7448]

Many years ago I tasted my first commercially raised chicken. The flavor was like eating paper. Beforehand, the chicken I had been eating were what we call now as free range chicken. Now, I can get the same flavor when I use mature chickens labeled as "roasting" birds. I only prefer the dark meat and back bones of the less expensive 6 week old birds. I experimented with smoking the breast meat. Not bad if it is not too salty.

[@crysis4real]

One thing I have learned from this that there are more chickens than us Human's !

[@BurgerKingFootLettuce]

Like if you eat a chicken once a week, all year...you alone would end up eating 52 chickens...in 10 years 520 chickens and 50 years Around 2600 chickens and remember...the facts I'm calculating are bare minimum so what do you think if it is applied to Like 70 %of humanity Excluding the poor, and less fortunate ppl and those who are vegetarian or vegan(like me) Nothing bro, just some faxx

[@GhostBrian]

Like most animals farmed for food

[@zozjotej]

"if demand is there, we would be doing it!" Covered the whole story.

[@nickgehr6916]

It's not chicken, it's pygmy feathered t-rex

[@shoaibakhtar4389]

Correct 😂

[@leoprg5330]

I love organic eggs from our grass fed chickens, but seeing that video of "industrial" food production makes me want to go vegetarian.

[@90AlmostFamous]

At this rate , we could see chickens as big as dinosaurs in our lifetime

[@OPTIMUMELITE]

@@90AlmostFamous I don't get what your saying?!

[@90AlmostFamous]

@@OPTIMUMELITE chicken became 4 times larger in 50 years, imagine what it will become in next 100yrs, ok i may have exaggerated the dinosaurs part a bit :D

[@rutabfarooque26]

I read " Why is children so cheap" and instantly clicked at only to find disappointment.

[@minhtrido969]

HolUp

[@fatshpee7174]

I'm calling the cops

[@AsifTown]

You my friend got dyslexic

[@user-zi1gg4cn5h]

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[@hitsugayatoshiro9517]

Ayo hol'up

[@thomaswright3750]

Man this is so cruel how we treat other animals in this world and the world itself.

[@dazhibernian]

The chickens will unite and rise up. Their time will come.

[@quocvietophu1627]

Chicken gang rises up

[@brad349miller]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnPbonx-n52kiMk

[@KurenaiKimitsu]

only up until about 39 days in age... before their bred genetics handicaps them and eventually kills them. (excluding free range and organic)

[@bhimawaskita2540]

Rise of the chicken

[@IamINERT]

Chicken rangers

[@Billywong]

Free Range chicken... I am not even a free range human being

[@krishnamohan2351]

How did you type this shit if you were not one?

[@appletree8441]

he was forced to

[@Shark_Arise]

That's your choice, they have none. You also weren't unnecessarily killed on the 40th day of your Life.

[@ProfessorTravis]

BillyWong what are you doing out of your cube!?

[@vitovito123]

Can people can get a sense of honour

[@IAMTRASHMAN267]

“Cheep cheep cheep cheeeeeeeeep” - Tommy Wiseau

[@tahamohammad1741]

The greatest movie ever made

[@tahamohammad1741]

Dolan DeDock yes sir!

[@neverletmego6414]

how to win the bird war: other birds: adapt, improvise, get stronger and more flexible! chicken: be meat, my friend

[@fernandolopes8592]

2:24 So in a hundreds years from now, we can have the dinosaurs back.

[@bobbiusshadow6985]

Yup, T-Rex meat would be great great value

[@appletree8441]

If it's good enough for Fred Flintstone it would be good enough for me. But you or nobody will has or ever will see a living dinosaur

[@arjunmangal5281]

and you can buy *whole dinosaur* from walmart for cheap

[@6squall9]

@@appletree8441 Many scientists believe that birds are direct descendants of dinosaurs. So the OP joke was about us learning to manipulate genes to return them to original size for optimal profit.

[@TrungTran-yg3uv]

@@6squall9 descendants? birds *are* dinosaurs.

[@friendlysnows4945]

“tHeY’rE nOt cHeAP tHeY hAvE woRTh” Title: cheap

[@Yeagerists1321]

2019: why is chicken so cheep? 2025: why is chicken getting so expensive In jamaica a pound of chicken is 230$ quickly chasing after fish, pork and beef....

[@aone1527]

In the UK £2.50 for halal chicken. Cheaper than a bowl of okra

[@pipoypipoy9761]

@@aone1527 lady finger?

[@ewaoconnor7978]

Poor chickens 😔 I buy free range ones to give them better life and better health for my family

[@anshitkumar6347]

Look at all those chickens!

[@kaneknight4606]

Good meme

[@6squall9]

10/10

[@musicbox8351]

FANTASTIC !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@PGM82607]

RIP vine

[@mukovhemphigalale3408]

🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

[@adrianak4997]

Easy to feed. Easy to live. Less cost. Equals Cheap.

[@sweetclk77]

125 likes and no comments

[@xtcbt9798]

Here's some more comments

[@vikashg4474]

plus horrible hormones

[@davidchang5265]

@@vikashg4474 Not even that bad man

[@fumaaa5643]

And delicious

[@someguy2135]

The benefits of switching to a purely plant based diet are amazing. 1-Your own health (vegans are less likely to get several deadly chronic diseases) 2-Helping to end animal agriculture would reduce the chance of another pandemic & other zoonotic diseases 3-Helping to end animal ag would reduce the chance of the development of an antibiotic resistant pathogen. 4-Animal ag wastes a huge amount of fresh water 5-Animal ag is a major cause of water pollution 6-Animal ag is a major cause of deforestation 7-Animal ag increases PTSD and spousal abuse in the people who work in slaughterhouses 8-Animal ag is a major cause of the loss of habitat and biodiversity 9-Animal welfare, obviously 10- It is the single most effective way for each of us to fight climate change and environmental degradation 11- Longer lifespan. 12- Healthier weight (vegans were the only dietary group in the Adventist Studies that had an average BMI in the recommended range.) Links for some of these are at my channel under "About."

[@vivekanandan5093]

4:17 kids smiling and caring for chicks... The same night have Chicken for feast....

[@mfadhilal-fatih1427]

I had chicken as pet back then..

[@vivekanandan5093]

@@mfadhilal-fatih1427 I can imagine what would have happened after few years.....

[@suscontent2904]

Most effective way to survive as a spieces: Become food for humans.

[@Patapon1222]

Or be as cuddly as possible to become human's pets and adored animals Case in point: Pandas (they have to make panda porn to entice the males to reproduce, otherwise shit ain't happening, yet we still help them) Pandas get super special treatment but non cuddly endangereds only get pocket changes for their survival

[@tinfoilhat38]

So we should start a selective breeding program for panda meat. Mmmm panda burger.

[@n3gi_]

He is absolutely right. If Pandas were as popular as Chicken(as edible meat), they wouldn't be in endangered species.

[@boosay568]

Can someone breed smol pandas already I want to adopt one. Like come on we changed chickens and dogs why not pandas??

[@BlazingAzureTheta]

@@boosay568 We can domestic cats and dogs because they are social creatures with low lifespans and low food costs. Pandas are solitary creatures with long livespans and high food costs. That's why most big animals are not domesticated.

[@GothPlatypus]

39 days versus 10 years? That's the equivalent of a human living 292.5 days versus 75 years

[@viplami]

Peter So you realise what you said is pretty dumb right?

[@witchcraftbdo3212]

Imagine if we are butchering 290-300day old babies for our meat ^^

[@101osin1010]

@@witchcraftbdo3212 that would be really ineffective i mean its only a couple of pounds when adults can be a couple hundred

[@101osin1010]

@@viplami wooooosh

[@samarpreet605]

Please put that comma out.

[@NoName-ml6hd]

Look at all those chicken!

[@hawwaahmed772]

Poor birds living in cramped conditions.

[@308_Negra_Arroyo_Lane]

I wonder what broiler humans would look like if bred by aliens for food.

[@oswarz]

There's a Twilight Zone with Rod Sterling episode on exactly that.

[@d3r4g45]

Perhaps we already are just don't know it, just like this chickens don't know it.

[@308_Negra_Arroyo_Lane]

@@oswarz Must be "To Serve Man". Gonna go watch it now.

[@paulsawczyc5019]

Think about it - we are hairless and we eat lots of sugar.

[@Voltraken]

4:08 "pretty chicks? Yes sir" 😂..... Proceeds to show 2 little girls 0_o

[@random-0]

lol

[@TheOnlyInformant]

FBI, OPEN UP!

[@IrfanullahJan]

lol nice catch

[@martinbernardino1]

Ladies and gentlemen, we got em!

[@LucasKsh]

mohammed also said that after seeing aisha😂😂

[@kmm1863]

This report didnt age so well

[@damiengitt]

That’s why food in the Uk is mostly tasteless and cheap It’s sad to think about food just at feeding someone and not as food or meals !!!

[@PHlophe]

Damian, not really, buy your meat at Mark and spencer instead of tescoes. A couple quid extra but you ain't going to get those long term nasty diseases associated with mass production. Doe je best !

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[@samuraijo2818]

some animals we're harmed during the making of this video

[@LeonDieBoer]

yeah, and many many many humans were fed high quality animal protein at an affordable price. Your point?

[@goosty17]

@@LeonDieBoer It isn't right. Learn to eat vegetables.

[@BornGam3r]

Leon Hall ‘high quality animal protein’ not even close lmao. Saturated fat, excess dietary cholesterol, IGF-1, estrogen, etc. is unhealthy.

[@ethanp3816]

A least animals can be put out of their misery. Vegetables are still alive when we cook them,or eat them raw.

[@Liberty_Freedom_Brotherhood]

Thousands

[@vic5015]

Two words: factory farming

[@LearnToCompound]

I only buy pasture raised eggs or 108 sq feet

[@mark98115]

@Mako Shark I buy organic or sometimes free range chicken. I only buy eggs from pasture raised chickens and most of the time organic There is a huge difference between eggs from pasture raised chickens and others. You can see it in the color of the yoke and taste the difference.

[@LearnToCompound]

me not you we were buying England’s best up to a few years ago when I found out What was happening now We only by pasture raised eggs It says on the box 108 sq feet per hen that’s is awesome

[@mark98115]

@Mako Shark I bet you can teste the difference too. Knowing how factory farming chickens are treated, I cannot in good conscience buy their eggs. I am not some vegan and eat meat but I buy from sources that I believe are healthy and nit abusive to the animals.

[@ConstantChaos1]

Yes and?

[@ilhwisloui]

2:08 - 2:10 bruh thats perfect, “that’s so raven” but chicken version.

[@arjunramesh2436]

😆

[@akils.s.s7997]

233.23 million years ago: Fearsome animal that conquered the whole earth. Now:*CHICKEN DINNER*

[@Darkshadow-ll8ge]

Chicken like crossing the street Because they know they're cheap

[@shabbarali507]

Lmao , now this is an original comment

[@user-fx4oo4xc9o]

Chicken digger

[@youzhang9201]

" dinosaur" is still the most successful animal on the planet.

[@moesyzslak2939]

Its the most expensive meat too YOU ZHANG

[@delanceybannerman2135]

Agreed😂😂😂

[@rajasimanta]

Underated comment

[@enricofermi3471]

I believe you meant that chicken and birds in general are, technically, super distant relatives/descendants of dinosaurs? Yeah, they definitely are, and thanks to their long presence in the biosphere, their meat is easily digestible to many predators/omnivores.

[@kotarojujo2737]

@@enricofermi3471 chicken are not relatives of dinosaur. Chicken are dinosaur. All birds are classified as dinosaur because they're evolved from from theropod dinosaur, thus make them still dinosaur.

[@amazonbharath]

3:11 it's healthy for you😂😂😂😂

[@strongarms8391]

That farmer looks like the Elon musk of the UK chicken industry😂

[@ooforange1st881]

He look no where like elon musk

[@18utkb]

Everyone: Chickens deserve a better life KFC: I am about to end this Man's whole career

[@megsinzoa7424]

Demand = supply Supply = demand Personal responsibility? Never met that guy.

[@enricofermi3471]

Texas Chicken (also known as Church's Chicken in the US, I believe) make better chicken than KFC, though. Well, to my taste, at least.

[@markyyyyyyyy321]

Which man? What are you talking about

[@petervangeli6656]

KFC....occultistic satanic torture of chickens with the famous herbs n spices😈😁

[@PaddyMcMe]

That 'Chicken of Tomorrow' thing is so clever. What a brilliant way to meet rising food demands. In the 1950's chicken was considered a special treat, usually for Christmas or other large/significant celebrations. Hard to believe now that Chicken is cheap and prevalent. Ask most kids and young people and they'll tell you their favourite meat is Chicken. Conversely back then Lamb was fairly cheap and something you could eat once or twice a week, these days (here in Australia anyway) 1kg of Lamb Chops is $25-35... Funny how the world changes. Or like how initially the Russian Royal Family would dine with aluminium cutlery as it was a rare, highly prized precious metal. These days we literally throw aluminium in the bin after finishing our can of soda.

[@LogginInn]

Blame the President during the war, promised one in every pot. Went from an expensive food served on Sundays to...well, one in everyones pot!

[@horseblinderson4747]

Wool lamb tastes gross.

[@jamese.4188]

@@LogginInn your words are so telling of the times I would never have had perspective on. 👏 thank you, unironically.

[@robertking3130]

My dad used to keep chooks. Every now and then we would lop off a few heads, pluck them and pull the guts out. I'm 73, but haven't done it for years. I would doubt there is a millennial who could do it or even contemplate the idea.

[@cincin4515]

Another Aussie from the 1970's here. We got chicken on Christmas day only. Fridge full of lamb the rest of the year. Cheaper to buy a side of lamb than get all fussy about variety. Chicken 5 nights a week now cause its cheap & lamb is for the elite.

[@brooklynchase6206]

My dude just spammed the chicken egg spawner

[@robustbottlecap]

I like how people still calling out for chicken to be cage free, yet they will still butcher them or have someone doing it for them Humanity is the biggest joke of all time

[@Hyraladen]

0:34 That's a dinosaur right there! Look at the face, so intimidating

[@abdulkarimsaleh]

he is mad because someone record him without premision

[@samm7522]

Birds evolved from Dinosaurs

[@peaceout4132]

I eat dinosaurs for dinner

[@kostasz7z]

@@samm7522 No you are an ignorant fool. Dinosaurs are nothing more than birds and lizzards of the before Noah era.

[@JohnTavastian]

Good thing I'm not a corn kernel.

[@ricasiogaming7873]

Imagine living two months in a crowded cage with millions of clones of you. And then getting attached to a conveyor belt and killed.

[@Bigjoebig]

Except their brain is the size of a peanut

[@nikhil3155]

@Trees Lakes 👌👌🇮🇳🇮🇳

[@Bigjoebig]

Yieri i humans have thicker skins and go into deep sleep and have bigger brains to process more

[@madman7544]

We are mostly same,we are all livings on earth. If they were us they would eat us surely that's why we need to work on technology for better options of energy and food.

[@ricasiogaming7873]

@@uerivbuywecrwefdqervwrrwgv9843 Bruh I’m not even a vegetarian I’m just saying we should have enough pride to treat other animals better.

[@jyoung8441]

Consumers don’t know what they are buying, little actually knows the difference between free range and organic

[@Raw_Hitz]

Dislikers be like: Chickens' lives matter

[@given-namesurname5740]

Keep in mind greenwashing is a thing with terms like free range Nd organic and how companies try to exploit them, but look at the difference in the feathers

[@atokagawa5596]

I think it's a different breed of chicken. Red hens are in the footages of the free range, it is the most common breed in my country and sells as regular

[@iHateCatHaters]

I can confirm your statement. I have owned chickens my whole life (just for self feeding) and the difference from a well kept chicken and one who has been living in small spaces with only concentrated food is all about their feathers. If they are uniformly distributed and the are soft at touching, then it was an well kept one.

[@andwelecastleberry5423]

Actually those things are less green because they take up more space, and lead to increase climatic impact

[@Jason-nn2ik]

Established "Pecking Order" : the basic pattern of social organization within a flock of poultry in which each bird pecks another lower in the scale without fear of retaliation and submits to pecking by one of higher rank broadly : a dominance hierarchy in a group of social animals. --- This is why they have no feathers. Surrounded constantly by dozens of other random hens doing what hens do fighting to be alpha. The free range have fewer hens more room and longer time alive to have less frequent dominance trials thus more developed feathers.

[@kell2883]

I actually found this quite interesting, looking into the world of farming and the impact it has on the consumer is pretty neat

[@bikinggal1]

NEAT?

[@kell2883]

bikinggal1 guess it’s the only word I could think of at the moment

[@puneettripathi740]

It's quite heartbreaking, when most of countries are producing enough to feed upon agriculture they still choose these animals... I forgot to mention playing sweet music while showing processing of chicken won't make the picture look decent, it's actually the killing

[@justinmoss6567]

im looking at the price of the chicken like "this aint adding up" and then i factor inflation smh...

[@jiithi]

Chickens aren't cheap, they're just trying to save some money.

[@WhittyWhitts]

They’re chicken to spend more money

[@mariachurch9674]

Cheap as Chicks.

[@ninja1inblack105]

Dark White have you ever gone to the store? My local supermarket has a chicken isle. It looks just like the one in this video. Intensively reared chickens, free-range, and organic. The prices are drastically different. The IR chickens are by far the cheapest and Organic costs the most. Both of the company’s are making the same profit. The extra cost and savings are handed down to the consumer. Again the video explains it all.

[@jiithi]

@@ninja1inblack105 r/woooosh

[@kronkrian100]

Cheapskates all of them.

[@TheSunMoon]

Chicken: "who you calling cheap?!" Me: "ah, but the good die young.."

[@ximenalafken7305]

Cheap? on 2022? Not anymore

[@KarimOsseiran]

Me: trying to sleep at 3 am KZbin recommendation: Why is chicken so cheap?

[@robf1801]

Yeah I also saw this exact same comment from a year ago.

[@lennard6094]

here in philippines we have chicken called "native" and its literally cage free. and when i said literally they are roaming the wild around 1-7 hectares depending on the farmers land. and yeah it taste very different. we only fed them in the morning (5am) usually coconut or corn. to keep them coming back. btw the price is around 4$ per kg of this native chicken

[@masa-qi8cx]

Yep I own a lot of these and now Im crossbreeding natives with caber for larger yields of meat with the taste of native basically a native that weighs 8kgs

[@Sourav_MadridCF]

Price in india🇮🇳 (Odisha) 2$ per kg retail rate 1.3$ per kg Wholesale rate

[@blackmarble7265]

As far as I've tasted "wild" chicken meat tastes way harder than the domesticated

[@damn671]

*I keep hearing “intensively weird chicken”*

[@kingk2405]

The price range for a chicken is between 3$ for the industrial ones up to 60$ for the top like the chicken de Bresse in France . In between, for 15 to 20$ you get the organic ones.

[@sandrap.706]

laughs at 2022 chicken prices

[@IZZATDESAMARAFIRDAUS]

Me at 3am: i better go to sleep KZbin recommend: Why chicken is so cheap 😭😂

[@shankysays]

Hahahaha it's actually 3:08 am rn here.

[@vigyanprakashverma532]

It's 3:29 here

[@samibichumani1176]

@@vigyanprakashverma532 3:02 here

[@StickmanA]

too real

[@florinschanel7525]

03:02 here 🤣🤣🤪😴😴😴

[@kaptain1477]

“Intensively reared” so that’s what we’re gonna call it.

[@meeblings6]

Lol that sounds suggestive

[@ohyeahminecraft]

nexus prime extreme deregulation is also a cause, it’s why we’re having so many chicken recalls

[@MadeagoestoNam]

That's what it's called.

[@JamieR1988]

@@meeblings6 I got intensively reared last night. Can't fucking sit down today!

[@FawzieK]

Sounds like it got forcefully buggered.

[@zester5704]

Organic Chicken tastes way better than Intensively breed or free range chicken.Its is also more nutritious. Ik they cost more than the other two but the taste and nutrients is worth it .

[@aviraljanveja5155]

A prime example of why Economic engine should be designed "to serve" and not "to be served".

[@1mfilms]

These chickens are living in the Matrix. They don't know the purpose of their lives or the outside world. They are given everything they need. From their point of view, their life seems good enough. And they are grown for the purpose of giving nourishment to another being.

[@maromega432]

So what? you feel sorry for them ? We humans live in the system as the chickens do. Our way is just way more painful but only few can see it, for the same reason :)

[@jeremiahduke1707]

This a good look into socialism just saying

[@trueorient1544]

J. J. Define consciousness first.

[@robertb6076]

No, their horrifically short lives are miserable as they can't live in the way they have evolved to enjoy.

[@hachiman7512]

@@robertb6076 like getting savagely ripped to pieces by other predators in the wild

[@crazybear2478]

Love the message of this video and bringing in a farmer who repeats that it is up to the consumer and that our choices dictate what world we want to live in.

[@user-yx7dp2pl8t]

crazy bear for the vast majority there is no choice

[@dennisp8520]

@@user-yx7dp2pl8t there is always choices we can make. That being said it doesn't mean those choices are easy or viable options. I personally don't care where my chicken comes from. So long as it's not killing me and it fills my body I'm happy.

[@ProfessorTravis]

The farmer who donates to the politician and then pays dues to a bureau who employs lobbyists to generate legislation for said politician. Your taxes then subsidize operations like this, leaving the consumer with no other choice. It's a monopoly unless you fix the political structure.

[@ceterumcenseocarthaginemes455]

Yeah eat less meat

[@erwinbravo1513]

I was ready to see a miss-informed video, but they did a very good job. They left out some important information like how these intense productions DO have parameters they need to meet in order to fulfill the animals welfare.

[@Fightrec]

Chicken: man i cant wait for 34 day birthday Organic chicken: see u at ur funeral

[@subramanianmuthusamy9700]

We can rather be vegan

[@fatman989]

All chickens are free from hormones. Why does she say only organic chickens are ???