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Hens :-)

Platypuses.

The issue is actually because many of the "free range" chickens are not free range at all. They're temporarily let outside into a small cage, or given access to a small outdoor portion (different lengths depending on the farm) and labeled as free range. Many of the free range farms still keep their chickens indoors for 90% of their lives, and are on average worse off then the regular brooder set-up.

Hey! I bought the same eggs and thought the same thing. H5N1 is pretty aggressive, I guess.

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I love puns. General-lee.

Just your HUD telling you that you can interact with the potatoes.

Bet you're fun at parties

So….the homeless should identify as hens now?

There's no law saying you can't confine hens: most egg farms do. There is a law that if you label eggs "free range" the chickens actually have to range free. Hence the label change.

Oh I know. It's just funnier read the other way lol

Wasn’t there an SNL skit about this ?

I'm a culchie now, darling.

Langer

We, as a society, can temporarily house chickens, but we cannot get it together for humans. Makes total sense /s

Could be worse, could be in Dublin still you know?

“free range” is a vague term to begin with. Most farms use this phrase to look pleasing to the customer who wants to buy ethically, but my free range is different to your free range, and is different to his free range etc. The HFAC defines free range as being “2 sq. ft per bird”. So each bird gets 2.1 square feet of ‘free range’. The industry is absolutely fucked.

The chicken industry is madness. I am broke & can’t money generally but this is the one thing I support every month through World Animal Protection. My whole donation goes to saving the lives of chickens.

Can't really call them "free range" any more if they're not... you know... free... on the range.

But you'll be glad of it when you read about avian flu.

I am roflol

sorry to hear

That’s really interesting. Is there an estimate on how long it might take to blow over? Also, I literally just finished the last of us like, the credits are rolling as I type this comment. Are we doomed?

It would be if they named it H3N5.

Not exactly. Avian flu only comes from wild aquatic birds. If you have free range chickens, they wander about over land that has been a toilet for wild birds flying above it. The free range chickens then wander around in the infected shit and then it transfers to the whole farm. It has been a big nasty problem since January 2022.