Again.
You PETA types, politically correct types and nosey motherf*cker types have to get this throw your heads: Dogs are not people; cats are not people; cows are not people and; chickens are not people.
Let's look at chickens.
The tasty egg laying critters are generally kept in close quarters, pens. This is not good enough for your tree hugging types. They want the birdies to be free. Or freeish.
Problem is the birds are bred to be solitary creatures. To reduce fights, they are kept in dim lighting in cages where each bird has an average 67 square inches of space, or two-thirds of a sheet of notebook paper.
Free range them and they fight. A lot.
Mother Nature Network says that "...decades of breeding to make the white leghorn hens that lay most of the nation's eggs more productive have also boosted the birds' territorial instincts, making them prone to pecking attacks so fierce they're often called 'cannibalism.' Scientists and egg producers warn that deadly skirmishes that start with feather-plucking and turn into bloody frenzies when a bird's pecking breaks a flockmate's skin will increase if those same aggressive hens are moved from small cages with five to 10 birds to open pens that can hold dozens."
FYI.
WFDS
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