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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Shitty meat – you are literally eating abused chicken raised at a meat farm. Try to buy something from an ethical farmer and it will be expensive
At supermarkets, rotisserie chickens are know as loss leaders. They intentionally offer the chicken at below cost to get you in the door. As for chicken in general, yeah, it doesn’t seem to make any sense that the whole life cycle costs so little.
Local farms around me need to charge $25/chicken to make it worthwhile to raise well fed, ethically treated chicken. If you think corners weren’t cut on that $5 chicken you’re kidding yourself. We still buy the $5 one in a pinch but the local farm raised chicken is 100x more flavorful. We eat chicken less frequently and try to support local and eat better food that wasn’t grown and processed in factory settings
Tax money is the actual answer, in the UK specifically 78% of the profit in animal farming comes from subsidies and in other places I’ve seen figures ranging from about 40% to even over 90%. It’s so cheap to you because your taxes pay for the rest of it.
I wish I could find a whole chicken for 4€.. Like 20€ here in Finland for a whole ass chicken, might have to do with food standards, I’d guess.
My dog got sick on Christmas ..2-3 years ago I can’t remember. But I had to find a dog ER on Christmas Day and drive around. Had to pay $500 for them to tel me she had an allergic reaction to something she ate and give her AiC fluids for a few hours. Was Covid too so I couldn’t even go in with her and she was terrified.
Anyways, they suggested I feed her chicken and rice as a solve all for two weeks. I did.
I realized it was cheaper to buy her the shit grade value packs of bone in chicken and white rice then dog food. Seriously. So now I just cook a big pack at once then cut a bunch up in morning, toss in white ride and green beans and microwave it so the chicken smell attaches to the rice or whatever so she eats it all.
Easy. And she’s obviously more happy with it. Costs ~$20 a week. Green beans and rice may as well be free..
Does this sub have admins still???
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.
Factory farming is the answer. Cheap soya feed from the Global South, genetic modified flesh, and force feeding. Factory processing and packing. Parts of the chicken like the claws are exported to SE Asia, the guts are fertiliser. No waste and the poor chicken has no fresh air, or life. A bit like Covid time humans locked away from the Sun.
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