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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In addition to what’s been mentioned, realize that that whole chicken isn’t actually a *whole* chicken. The organs have been removed and sold elsewhere. The feathers have been removed and sold elsewhere. The blood has been removed and sold elsewhere. The beak, neck, feet and whatever other assorted no-so-tasty bits have been removed and sold elsewhere. And the manure it produced during its life? Sold, hopefully elsewhere, if not used by the farmer as fertilizer. Point is there’s a lot more value in the complete bird than the stripped carcass you end up with, delicious as it may be.
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