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Towns in Belgium and France have been successfully giving away free chickens for ten years to reduce food waste. (www.bbc.com)

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/35963783

To date, 5,282 hens have been distributed to residents, and not only have the residents received a plentiful supply of free eggs, but food waste has also been averted from landfill as chickens are fed kitchen scraps which would otherwise be thrown away.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

This is epic both from a sustainability and animal rights perspective. I've worked in an industrial chicken house (though mine was meat) and any situation where a family is taking care of the chicken (especially in the large space requirement they marked out) is approximately a billion times better. I particularly would like to have chickens at some point, though with the insanity that is the US, I would actually not be allowed to keep one at all in most neighborhoods I'm likely to live in. Edit: Its possibly relevant to say that I've also raised chickens (both egg and meat) in a non-industrial setting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago

Yup, this 100%!

If anyones in doubt, I was pretty horrified to learn meat reared chickens are sometimes slaughtered as early as 35 days old.

https://www.rspca.org.uk/webContent/staticImages/BroilerCampaign/EatSitSufferRepeat.pdf