Post by @afewbugs@social.coop

2026-07-29 13:23 UTC

When 71% of the planet's avian biomass is in the form of farmed poultry rather than wild birds, maybe the most sensible solution is to farm fewer of them, you know? https://ourworldindata.org/wild-mammals-birds-biomass #AnimalAgriculture #Degrowth

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@vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de 2026-07-29 13:37

@afewbugs@social.coop not sure how accurate it is, but I remember reading somewhere that the domestic chicken is the world's most common bird species..

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@sallyjeffery@mastodon.scot 2026-07-29 13:59

@afewbugs@social.coop In my British childhood, we only had chicken about once a year, usually Easter. In her 1963 book Cooking in a Bedsitter, Katharine Whitehorn wrote ‘Chicken is a word that still has a faint air of extravagance about it; but in fact chickens are now being reared so fast and furiously that they are now often cheaper than good meat. This has been the case in America for years’.

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@afewbugs@social.coop 2026-09-10 15:16

Maybe, and just hear me out with this wild and crazy idea here, if the amount of chicken waste we produce is causing massive pollution problems we could just try eating fewer chickens? https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/117247259573658462

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