Encouraging consumers to choose home-grown poultry supports healthier eating, boosts local farmers, and reduces dependency on industrial poultry farming. Choosing natural chicken is a step toward better health and sustainable food practices.

ONE WORLD  JOURNAL

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00:00broiler chicken it's fast affordable and everywhere but there's a hidden cost one

00:14we rarely talk about this is the story behind the chicken on your plate

00:30broilers are chickens raised for one purpose rapid meat production they're bred to grow

00:37unnaturally fast and they do but what does this mean for their health our health and the planet

00:43in the 1950s it took over 14 weeks to raise a chicken today it takes just 30 to 35 days

00:50that's more than three times faster modern broilers gain nearly 60 grams a day

00:56a pace their bodies struggle to handle to make this growth possible they're fed high energy diets

01:02there's an arsenic-based compounds like rocks or sown are added to push growth even further

01:11over 70 percent of all antibiotics in the world go to farm animals broilers included drugs like

01:18tetracycline colistein and amoxicillin are used not to treat illness but to keep birds alive in cramped

01:26high stress conditions the result chickens too heavy for their legs hearts that give out lungs that

01:33collapse they're not sick they're overgrown this is what happens when we force nature to move faster

01:40than it should and it doesn't stop with chickens we're seeing antibiotic resistant infections

01:46hormonal disruptions and rising concerns about obesity and even early puberty in children

01:52all linked to what's in our meat what about the environment broiler farms produce mountains of

02:05waste waste laced with antibiotics that pollute soil crops and water

02:10in 2024 the world produced over 103 million metric tons of broiler meat the top producers the u.s china

02:21brazil and the eu and by 2025 that number is expected to grow even more we feed billions with this system

02:31but at what cost are we sacrificing long-term health for short-term convenience there is a better way home-raised

02:40free-range chickens grow slower live better and are safer to eat let's choose meat raised with care

02:46not chemicals the true cost of broiler chicken isn't on the price tag it's in our bodies our environment

02:54and our conscience cheap meat comes at a high cost choose consciously

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