I presume, like everything else wrong with Capitalism, it comes down to cost. It's more cost efficient somehow. I don't understand the details, because I'm not a chicken farmer, but I have been in the capitalism machine for a long, long time, and I'd bet a shitton of tax payer money that it's purely down to cost.

If it saves $0.02 per chicken, they'll gladly poison the rivers, oceans, lakes, etc. with refuse and baby chick corpses.

[–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

In this case it's because if you raised them no-one would want to buy them. The egg laying breeds are a lot tougher and have a lot less meet than the ones bred for meat. They also cost more per amount of meat in the end.

The simple fact is that people don't want to buy that, so it'd just be wasteful to grow them out.

[–] Tyfud@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Right. So cost savings.

[–] ephemeral_gibbon@aussie.zone 1 points 4 months ago

Not mostly, mostly consumer preferences. You wouldn't be able to sell them and it'd just be wasteful