[culi]

For example, Eight Mile Creek based in NY:

- uses flocks of 60 in mobile houses that allow the chickens to feed on grass and bugs outdoors without over stressing a particular plot of land.

- Hens have ample indoor and outdoor space.

- Chicks are allowed outdoors as early as 2 weeks old.

- Hens are provided enrichment and toys.

- Beak trimming is not practiced.

- Death rates are less than 2% and hens reach their natural lifespans.

- They are also allowed to molt naturally.

[Obscurity4340]

Its disgusting that, under Capitalism, all these parameters are seen as optional or luxury when they are the normal.

[metalcrow]

I'm 100% with you on the ethics, but I gotta ask: would this behavior be different under a different economic system? The only 2 reasons I can see it being stopped are either a government enforced regulation, or a public push against it, and neither of these are linked to economics at all.

[culi]

I have to agree. I'm a critic of capitalism but the Soviet Union and others showed us that a (more) planned economy is just as capable of environmental and ecological atrocities as American industry is.

An ethics of stewardship and care has to be fought for either way. In both instances indigenous rights (and the landcare ethics that came with them) were trampled on in the name of "progress"

[unparagoned]

I’m not sure what this has to do with capitalism. You get as bad or even worse under other systems.