I know economies of scale and battery farms and stuff but I can’t reasonably work out how you can hatch, raise, feed, kill prepare and ship a chicken and have it end up in a supermarket as a whole chicken for €4. Let alone the farmers and the supermarkets share. Someone please explain.
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I’m a vegan, but I get to subsidize your cheap chicken in a lot of ways.
My taxes subsidize its feed.
I also help pay for the slaughterhouse inspections to make sure it doesn’t give you E. coli or some other illness.
If you eat enough greasy chicken meat to get diabetes and obesity, I get to subsidize your medical care, too.
And I pay for the Centers for Disease Control to research treatments for avian influenzas that come from factory farms and jump over into humans.
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