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Sinister, all these big huts, one after another with no windows or anything. Berners-Lee was recently walking in Scotland when he noticed lots of huts. We’ve optimised everything,” says Berners-Lee.Īnimal welfare has been sacrificed for the purposes of cheap protein, and many people find that disquieting. We use antibiotics to get it to a certain weight and we kill it quicker. “We’ve genetically modified the bird via selection so that it can’t stand up.
And 95 per cent of the UK’s broilers come from intensive units. In the UK, 850 million chickens are raised for meat (known as broiler chickens) each year. This efficiency has been achieved by streamlining the production process. “And better than sheep and cows because they don’t ruminate, so there’s much less methane involved.” “That’s why they come out better than pigs, for example, in terms of carbon footprint,” explains Mike Berners-Lee, an English researcher and writer on carbon footprinting. Intensive chicken is a more efficient converter of plants into food than most other animals are. The argument about what meat is “better” environmentally has focused on input efficiency. Whereas poultry has been perceived to be healthy and environmentally clean and is, of course, very cheap.” That’s where people make that negative association. “All the concerns around cancer and climate change and cruelty have coalesced around ruminant meat and dairy. “Historically, it has been perceived as a clean meat,” Percival explains. It’s the result of a mixture of a lack of understanding, the abundance of chicken on our supermarket shelves and in our takeaways, and the perception that it is a better choice than beef, says Rob Percival, head of food policy for the Soil Association and author of The Meat Paradox (Little, Brown, £18.99). Across the UK, from Powys to Northamptonshire, locals are fighting to stop intensive poultry farming.
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And now experts suggest that giving chicken a free pass has increased the incidence of avian flu, caused ecological devastation, and may be driving antibiotic resistance. Between 2017 and 2020, the number of industrial-scale pig and poultry units in the UK rose by 7 per cent from 1,669 to 1,786. The result is that an industry of intensive chicken production has grown exponentially. Restaurant analysts talk about a “chickenisation” of the UK food service sector – pointing out that the six fastest-growing emerging restaurant brands heading into 2022 all specialised in chicken and Mintel’s UK burger and chicken restaurants market report predicted that the UK chicken restaurant market will go from £2.3 billion (2022) to reach £2.7 billion in 2027. Indeed, a report by the UK’s Committee on Climate Change encouraged the replacement of beef and lamb consumption with pork and chicken. Replacing beef and lamb with chicken has been suggested as a way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, pollution and the land-use footprint of our diets. More than 40 per cent of the meat we eat in Britain is chicken – making it our favourite meat.
In wealthy countries, pork and beef consumption has remained unchanged since 1990, but chicken’s has increased by 70 per cent and continues to grow. Worldwide, 65 billion chickens are eaten every year. Nuggets, wings, drumsticks: chicken has gone from a rare treat, the centrepiece of a family meal, to a thoughtless snack. Passenger footage showed them handing out fried chicken to passengers on the flight, picked up on a stop-off in the Bahamas. When a British Airways flight suffered problems with its usual in-flight meal service in July, the cabin crew turned to Kentucky Fried Chicken.
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