“...at the end of the day, they are all going to die.”
And so are we! So does that mean that we need to go out of our way to abuse another living thing? My bet is that “ranchers” have done university studies to try and figure out the lowest cost way to raise chickens, which most likely includes just how many they can cram into a coop and still get optimum output. That doesn’t make what they do ethical. Ever been to a Greyhound race? Know what they do to the dogs when they won’t run anymore? Think that that kind of treatment, just to make a buck is o.k.? I don’t! Same goes for chickens and calves raised for Veal. You can eat it if you want to, but we don’t.
I mean UC Davis has a program to develop square tomatoes so that more of them will fit in a box. It’s always about a buck, it’s seldom about product quality.
That charge was refuted and beat down in post #121.
There was much to learn about the life of poultry from that post.
You haven’t been listening to the other posters very well, have you? You seem to think that, absent your control, Ranchers would be as cruel as possible to their animals. Do you feel that way about other human endeavors as well? People won’t do the right thing unless they are forced?