I’d say chickens packed into such close quarters that they end up pecking each other to death in quantities large enough to rationalize cutting all their beaks off to prevent it, are going berserk. Pecking order, henpecked, yes they refer to innate behavior. However, broiler chickens typically are not kept alive long enough for such dominance displays to become a problem, outside being crammed into extremely close quarters.
The practice was first performed in the thirties in a university research setting. It was the fifties before it began to be adopted, with breeding stock and not withbroiler hens. By the seventies, modern factory farming methods began to become common, and with consolidation in the industry, it is by far and away the predominant method, outside so-called free range operations, which themselves often actually aren’t.
So, you speak as if current practice is common and accepted, going back more than a genetation, when in fact it isn’t, having been banned in numerous countries.
I think that’s a bunch of bunk that would be corrected by an accurate view of history,
However, for sake of discussion, let’s stipulate it’s accurate.
What are suggesting, that we go back to the pre-confinment days for meat production?
You have to know that current agricultural methods have lowered real food prices by 30% during the last 40 years, and maybe as much as 40% or more since the 40’s.
Do you think people will stand for food prices nearly doubling, just so beaks etc aren’t clipped?
I, for one, would complain loudly.
Do you have any answers to my questions in post 72, or are you just one of these whiners and complainers without any answers?