Organic Free-Range Chickens: A Crime Against the Climate
For the sake of marketing by virtue signaling, products made from eggs or chicken are often piously labeled “organic” and “cage-free.” Yet it turns out that organic cage-free chicken products are not so righteous after all.
Daily Mail reports:
[S]cientists from the University of Oxford say that free–range organic farming produces more CO2, uses more land, and puts more pollution into our rivers. …
If all the eggs in the UK came from free–range organic eggs, this would produce a staggering 2,316,000 tonnes of CO2 every year.
That is more than twice the harmless carbon that would be produced by chickens raised in cages on a normal diet.
Organic birds require more feed per egg produced, and the organic crops needed to feed them have much lower yields than conventional crops. …
Since food crops are one of the biggest contributors to egg farming’s carbon footprint, using more food per egg means these farming methods produce more emissions.
At least the free-range arrangement is better for the chickens — or maybe not:
Free–range organic farms have a chicken mortality rate of eight per cent, compared to 2.5 per cent for those in enriched cages and 3.5 per cent for those raised in barns.
The researchers say that this is due to increased exposure to disease, predators, injury, and harmful feather pecking from other hens.
This may leave authorities with no choice but to ban chickens and eggs altogether.
On a tip from R F.
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