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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Because there are extremely high subsidies in place and because factory farming reduces the capital cost massively at the expense of animal welfare.
The last number I’m aware of place the full capital cost of raising a single chicken in humane conditions at around 15-20 EUR (pre COVID pandemic).
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