there are absolutely chicken breeds that cannot fly, in fact there are breeds of chickens that cannot walk due to their only purpose being to get bodyweight as fast as possible, spending their whole lives in a cage.
the average person is never going to see such chicken in person, because they simply dont go outside. they are different from the still rather normal chickens that you can see on a farm with a chicken coop
Does this kind of "breed" have a name or is it just something horrific factory farming has done? I've heard of this for like 20 years but I'm too compassionate to expose myself to a lot of information about the specifics of how the animals are tortured
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u/wojtekpolska 29d ago
depends on which breed.
there are absolutely chicken breeds that cannot fly, in fact there are breeds of chickens that cannot walk due to their only purpose being to get bodyweight as fast as possible, spending their whole lives in a cage.
the average person is never going to see such chicken in person, because they simply dont go outside. they are different from the still rather normal chickens that you can see on a farm with a chicken coop
I recommend ppl to watch the recent Kurzgesagt video about how to make meat less unethical