Preventing Chicken Pain Costs Less Than a Hundredth of a Cent per Hour, Study Finds
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A study in Nature Food shows that preventing just one hour of intense pain in chickens costs less than a hundredth of a cent, highlighting the minimal economic barrier to improving animal welfare through the adoption of slower-growing breeds and higher standards, challenging assumptions about the costs of welfare reforms in animal agriculture.
Topics:science#animal-agriculture#animal-welfare#chickens#eu-carbon-costs#science#welfare-footprint-framework
- Preventing an hour of intense pain in chickens costs less than a hundredth of a cent, say researchers Phys.org
- The Welfare Footprint Framework can help balance animal welfare with other food system priorities Nature
- It Costs Less Than A Hundredth Of A Cent To Stop An Hour Of Chicken Pain, Scientists Say ZME Science
- Quantifying animal welfare to balance food system priorities Stockholm Environment Institute
- New Study Finds Preventing an Hour of Intense Pain in Chickens Costs Under One-Hundredth of a Cent BIOENGINEER.ORG
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