Record temperatures have been causing mass poultry deaths in western France since June 22, Reuters reported. The heat wave, with temperatures exceeding 40° Celsius (104° Fahrenheit), is also behind the drowning of 40 people. Météo-France, the French national weather service, wrote in a statement that June 24 and 25 were the hottest days recorded in France since records began in 1947. Yann Nedelec, head of ANVOL, a French poultry-sector organization, estimated that at least several hundred thousand poultry in both indoor and outdoor farms died, though he told Reuters it was too soon for a precise death count. Chicken farmer Clement Blanchard, based in Saint-Andre-Goule-d’Oie, a commune in Pays de la Loire, told Reuters that around 700 of his chickens had died over the span of a few days, compared to an average death rate of one or two per day. “We’re faced with the same thing with our animals as we are ourselves: they suffer enormously from the heat, and so at times like this there are abnormally high death rates,” he told Reuters. Stéphane Delapré, a poultry breeder in Beauvoir-sur-Mer in Normandy, northwestern France, told AFP that the heat on June 22 had killed roughly half of his 17,600 chickens. “Half of the chickens died, suffocated by the heat: those that were in the buildings and also those that were under the trees,” he said. “In [my] 42-year … career, I have never seen anything like it.” The Chamber of Agriculture in both Brittany and Pays de Loire,…This article was originally published on Mongabay
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did you try that? I know lots of folks have, and yet this is still happening.
there's probably a more effective method
well this one isn't working.
We could make eating animal meat illegal. Just like we did with cannibalism.
try
Are you implying you would not allow this great idea?
I'm saying that is probably a better use of time than soaking beans
Yes, I will personally try to make all abuse illegal. Are you insinuating that some abuse should be legal so long as the victim is in a certain class?
did you read the article?
You dont need veganism to stop factory farms... this is a pure captialism problem.
Factory farms produce the overwhelming majority of all animal products because the only way to deliver those to a substantial amount of people is to industrialize the process. It is incredibly difficult to avoid supporting factory farms without being vegan. Even if it were possible, would it somehow suddenly be right to kill another sentient being solely for your own pleasure just because it happened outside of an industrial process?
at the current consumption from western cultures, sure. But plenty of cultures that maintain a largely plant diet supplemented with animal protein.
And ecosytems absoutely require predators to maintain balance. Unfortunately our ancestors destroyed natural predators in our ecosystems so their livestock wouldn't be harmed. So which is more morally wrong? Hunting to reduce populations or let them starve overpopulated?
Nah.
Not comfort. It's also full of people that enjoy better food.
Funny how you think being vegan solves everything. You are a huge part of bullshit.
Same idiot.
That's not the important takeaway here
You honestly read a story about climate change induced extreme heat waves and thought that dead chickens were the most important part of the story?
Eggs are among the greatest sources of protein in existence...
They're mightily convenient is all I'm getting at.
You do know chickens don't die laying eggs... Right?
Scroll to the top of your screen and try to read the article title again.
Aren't egg laying hens not farmed for meat? Egg farms don't really sell them for meat, they live to an age where they don't lay eggs anymore and the meat is too tough for consumer taste.
Chicken for poultry are a separate farm system because those are grown just for meat.
Both have their flaws but one does not equal another
Correct. Generally these are completely different breeds.
Wait, I didn't know about this. Do you mean some bully hens prevent certain others from being able to go outside? Do you have a link to an article about this?
Crap. Hmm...
Ok?
No thanks.