The Number of Chickens in the World Means They Outnumber Humans 3.5 to 1 | Why eating chicken is not necessarily more ethical than eating beef.

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1. It is 100% more environmentally sustainable. But in terms of suffering, yeah, it is considerably worse than the cow animal industry.

2. Reminds me of the punk band The Vandals song “Taste like Chicken.”

   https://www.musixmatch.com/lyrics/The-Vandals/Tastes-Like-Chicken

3. love sentient media

4. I think it’s far more ethical because it doesn’t destroy the earth anywhere near as much as beef

5. When saving the planet, my approach is how do the decisions I make impact the planet. Chicken is substantially less impactful to the planet compared to what it takes to raise cows. Do more chickens die in the process because it takes over 100 chickens to make as much meat as a cow, yes, but the goal of environmentalism is adapting lifestyles to be more sustainable. Usually that’s not measured in number of animal lives taken, but the environmental impact of those lives taken.

   Ethical is a complete different discussion.

6. Just wait till we’re making the same argument about cricket lives vs chicken lives to get the same amount of protein.

7. ‘They’re organized, I know it!’

8. There is an ethical problem when the fundamental interests of a conscious, sentient living being, capable of a wide range of emotions and feelings, and above all, capable of suffering, are severely violated, whether it be a chicken, an ox, a human being or anything else. This tendency to classify the importance of living beings from a strictly human perspective, based on a great ignorance of the perception of other living beings, is more than problematic.

9. It’s even better to not eat either, stop using all animal products, there’s such a big energy loss and it’s inefficient