Why is chicken so cheap?

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 มี.ค. 2019
  • People eat 65 billion chickens every year. It is the fastest-growing meat product. Yet pound for pound the price of chicken has fallen sharply. How has this happened?
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    Chickens are the most populous bird on the planet. There are 23 billion of them at any given time - that's ten times more than any other bird. It's by far the fastest growing meat product but pound for pound the price of chicken has fallen sharply. How has this happened?
    This farm is at the forefront of a technology revolution that has drastically changed chicken farming. It's run by David Speller who's pioneered the use of CCTV and CO2 monitors in chicken sheds. Along with his own farm, he works as a consultant overseeing the raising of around 3 million chickens in the UK.
    Chickens were first domesticated over 8,000 years ago but it wasn't until the 1940s that major efforts were made to create a super breed. The chicken of tomorrow competition in America would change chickens forever.
    Today the lifecycle of broilers, chickens that are bred purely for their meat, is entirely preordained. They grow faster and bigger than ever before and they can only live supported by human technology. Chickens have changed so quickly they are now four times the size they were in the 1950s.
    A barnyard chicken can live up to 10 years showing the huge evolutionary change the broilers have undergone. But selective breeding on a global scale comes at a cost. If the chickens live beyond their planned life they develop huge medical problems. And there are concerns the chicken industry is relying on an increasingly small gene pool.
    Keeping chickens in battery cages was banned in the EU in 2012 but some people want to create better lives for broiler chickens. Free-range birds have more access to open air runs, while organic chickens are typically free from antibiotics, hormones and other synthetic chemicals. Organic chickens get to live the longest - 81 days compared to intensively reared birds which live between 35 and 40 days. Free-range chickens get the most access to open air runs but when it comes to living space, organic and free-range fair far better than intensively reared birds where as many as 17 adult birds live in a single square metre.
    Organic farming might offer animals a greater quality of life but consumers are largely driven by cost and in an average UK supermarket, an intensively reared chicken cost several times less than its free-range or organic cousins.
    Over 95% of broiler chickens are intensively reared in the UK. Organic and free-range chickens make up the rest. For as long as shoppers want cheap and plentiful chicken, they will continue to be bred ever more intensively.
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  • @g.c.t.v6669
    @g.c.t.v6669 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7093

    All the chickens you see there are dead by now

    • @PurpleLotusSamsara
      @PurpleLotusSamsara 5 ปีที่แล้ว +218

      I was thinking the same thing ...makes you not want to even eat it.

    • @LeonDieBoer
      @LeonDieBoer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +272

      so what?

    • @horseblinderson4747
      @horseblinderson4747 5 ปีที่แล้ว +116

      Another batch is half done already.

    • @StephJ0seph
      @StephJ0seph 4 ปีที่แล้ว +192

      You probably had one for dinner, lol.

    • @callummason6589
      @callummason6589 4 ปีที่แล้ว +69

      Also people- chicken should be free to roam, but my child shall be in day care.

  • @scareleague9551
    @scareleague9551 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5204

    People: chickens should roam free without any cages.
    also people: why is this cage free chicken so expensive?

    • @hiozealben1424
      @hiozealben1424 5 ปีที่แล้ว +261

      It worth tho, not only for the cost, but also the taste.

    • @PITAH1
      @PITAH1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Brilliant comment

    • @expolrun9196
      @expolrun9196 5 ปีที่แล้ว +85

      HIOZEAL BEN Dont be fooled. The only eggs that are truely free are pasture raised. Cage free eggs are eggs that aren’t in a cage but is still restricted outside access and stays in a factory

    • @NunYa953
      @NunYa953 5 ปีที่แล้ว +145

      @@hiozealben1424
      If you believe that "cage free" chickens taste any different I've got a bridge for sale. People like you prove that there is a sucker for every scam.

    • @danb2450
      @danb2450 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Scare League probably cost so much because foxes kill half of them.

  • @yourstoryteller68
    @yourstoryteller68 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2314

    when you sacrifice your life for them, but they still call you cheap

    • @glauco6454
      @glauco6454 4 ปีที่แล้ว +115

      Eshaan Rahman “sacrifice”; -assuming they do it willingly-

    • @Harman.s.ghotra
      @Harman.s.ghotra 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @NKVD I dont think so

    • @kud3
      @kud3 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @NKVD buying free range chicken is more expensive

    • @cringename4391
      @cringename4391 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @NKVD and also most free range are just rebrand factory chicken

    • @cringename4391
      @cringename4391 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @NKVD a lot of free range are just factory chicken

  • @sanchitrastogi55
    @sanchitrastogi55 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2675

    Chiken is not even a animal anymore, it's just a crop that non vegetarians grow!

    • @aaronalias8099
      @aaronalias8099 4 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      What I didn't understand anything

    • @GamingBogart
      @GamingBogart 4 ปีที่แล้ว +121

      Like cows them beefs tastes best mmmmmmmm!!!!!

    • @AjaySharma-le3df
      @AjaySharma-le3df 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      @@GamingBogartif u can afford, eat all u want

    • @nahor88
      @nahor88 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      Not true; she's pretty explicit in the video that only that BREED of chickens is raised for food. Plenty of people raise chickens of other breeds for other purposes, even as pets.

    • @persiancat1597
      @persiancat1597 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @Original Protestant 👍👍👍👍👍

  • @nateriver7848
    @nateriver7848 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3390

    People : Chickens deserve better lives!
    Also people : I want the cheapest chicken you got.

    • @eunicelim910
      @eunicelim910 5 ปีที่แล้ว +74

      Yeaa, that's the reality.. Cuz chickens are mainly the source of protein

    • @strygwr
      @strygwr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      thats human nature

    • @c5097170
      @c5097170 5 ปีที่แล้ว +64

      People who buy organic don’t care about price. They only want healthiest option.

    • @50shekels
      @50shekels 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nate River way to separate yourself from us “people”

    • @SharapovaFan
      @SharapovaFan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      People want their cake and eat it too. In this case, chicken. Not cake.

  • @brokenwizards9122
    @brokenwizards9122 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1915

    4x since 1950.
    A few more decades and we can finally see that horse-sized chicken.

    • @igornikolic8192
      @igornikolic8192 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Like the sekiro chicken enemy haha

    • @drewcipher896
      @drewcipher896 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      BOK BOK Bitch

    • @MannyRiberaOriginal
      @MannyRiberaOriginal 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Sadly humans will grow at the same rate, so dont expect chicken rides.

    • @jonalaurenson7242
      @jonalaurenson7242 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I’m looking forward to that 🤤

    • @Raemnant
      @Raemnant 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Mega Ultra chicken. He is legend

  • @stephencoleman3578
    @stephencoleman3578 3 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    I worked for a well known chain of intensive chicken factory farms. 2 men cared for 500,000 chickens. The chickens were sold as organic free range, but they were not organic or free range. I had to sign a non-disclosure contract for the job and was prohibited from speaking to the press. I detested the job, not because of smells, flies. poor pay or dead chickens. It was because the chickens had more personality than the supervisors.

    • @bloopbloopy2893
      @bloopbloopy2893 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Oof... Well this is why people should do research on where they buy their chickens from....😔 Everyone knows buying from smaller farmers is always more ethical then big corporate companies.

    • @user-lo8fd4ml4l
      @user-lo8fd4ml4l ปีที่แล้ว

      @Bloop Bloopy you are right✅

    • @user-lo8fd4ml4l
      @user-lo8fd4ml4l ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bloopbloopy2893
      ا

    • @speaklifegardenhomesteadpe8783
      @speaklifegardenhomesteadpe8783 ปีที่แล้ว

      Could you advise what eggs or chickens NOT to purchase? Thank you so much for your comment!!

    • @LeoTheYuty
      @LeoTheYuty ปีที่แล้ว

      yikes

  • @dylanhilton8431
    @dylanhilton8431 3 ปีที่แล้ว +406

    "Why is chicken so cheap" Looks at KFC actually being overpriced....

    • @_ruted
      @_ruted 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Sam's chicken at woodland park is pretty cheap mate ngl

    • @_ruted
      @_ruted 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      its a reference to the cnsr btw

    • @BroAnarchy
      @BroAnarchy 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      crazy, isn't it??

    • @jonathanhhos3105
      @jonathanhhos3105 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Well its a business need to make money
      Buy chicken here is about 7 dollars

    • @hejalll
      @hejalll 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Regular packaged chicken breast is more expensive than ground beef, at least here in Denmark.

  • @billdooder2558
    @billdooder2558 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3237

    Oddly enough, the people eating them are now also 4x the size they were in the 1950's

    • @ExplosiveLandmine
      @ExplosiveLandmine 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      Quantity is an important factor too, meat has alot of calories

    • @tekkenfan01
      @tekkenfan01 4 ปีที่แล้ว +140

      Speak for yourself, I m actually 5x bigger

    • @jaredgarbo3679
      @jaredgarbo3679 4 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      @Kaptain Kid Good point of those people were to eat chicken they would probably lose weight

    • @adrianfernand33s
      @adrianfernand33s 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@a.a.6203 i would love to dine at your house one day

    • @moesyzslak2939
      @moesyzslak2939 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bill 😥😂😂😂😂😂

  • @boosay568
    @boosay568 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1915

    Cats and Dogs: Let's ensure our species survival by being men best friend!
    Chicken: Hold my grains.

    • @azucenasantes7447
      @azucenasantes7447 5 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Naim Noor I actually got two chickens and a dog 😂😂👏.. in the city I see chickens as pets

    • @czdaniel1
      @czdaniel1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      @@azucenasantes7447-- I saw a girl walking her pig in the city, once or twice

    • @Heavywall70
      @Heavywall70 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      czdaniel1
      Where’d the pig go?

    • @carinag4635
      @carinag4635 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      8O8clap can you just stop bringing a cat vs. dog debate into a joke

    • @shysensei2348
      @shysensei2348 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      😂😂😂😂😂👏🏻

  • @carolBee2023
    @carolBee2023 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    I'm an indigenous chicken farmer in Kenya and this is one of the reasons why I chose to keep the chicken. What is known as " improved indigenous chicken" is fast taking over the market and, I feel that, the purely indigenous chicken are going extinct.
    Battery caged birds are also the saddest things I've ever seen. Can't do it 😞

    • @XAVIER-on4yv
      @XAVIER-on4yv 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The reason they do this is because supply and demand, they only care about profits

  • @alihassanmalhi7553
    @alihassanmalhi7553 3 ปีที่แล้ว +239

    My grandfather: Don't eat broiler. It can barely walk itself, how it's gonna make you run 😂😂😂

    • @shahul8222
      @shahul8222 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😂

    • @agailham8476
      @agailham8476 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Many people are saying that haha

    • @Koloradus96
      @Koloradus96 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Let me help you out: Eat quality food. - Your grandfather

    • @subramanianmuthusamy9700
      @subramanianmuthusamy9700 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      We can be very healthy in a vegan diet too bro

    • @croatian_menace
      @croatian_menace 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      There is a lot of truth in these words..

  •  5 ปีที่แล้ว +3311

    "chickens have changed so quickly, they are now four times the size they were in the 1950's" same as the average American :D

    • @gaaheeify
      @gaaheeify 5 ปีที่แล้ว +124

      Bold of you to say that nguyen, when the UK surpassed americans in obesity lmao

    • @prodigous21
      @prodigous21 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Ah i see, spouting what you see on youtube everyday.

    • @etherealhawk
      @etherealhawk 5 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      @@gaaheeify citation lol? also you're more than 250x more likely to die from food related conditions like food poisoning in the US compared to the UK

    • @gaaheeify
      @gaaheeify 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      @@etherealhawk 69% of males are obese in the UK, the index is 66% in the USA. You can literally find the info by the WHO, don't whine

    • @gaaheeify
      @gaaheeify 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@prodigous21 read a PRR casual gtfo

  • @afarhan21
    @afarhan21 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7533

    Refuses to call chickens cheap because they are animals. Then goes ahead and calls them a product.

    • @Lowfar
      @Lowfar 5 ปีที่แล้ว +237

      What happens when you find out, you are a product.

    • @ConstantChaos1
      @ConstantChaos1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@supercrazyba ikr, one is definitely degrading while the other is like at least I have value lmao

    • @owenb8636
      @owenb8636 5 ปีที่แล้ว +66

      Gotta depersonalize them at some point

    • @ConstantChaos1
      @ConstantChaos1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      @@owenb8636 they aren't people

    • @owenb8636
      @owenb8636 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@ConstantChaos1 sorry, is there a word for not associating meat with the animals they come from that I should have used? Because otherwise it's pretty much the same thing.

  • @jonathanmcaleece9834
    @jonathanmcaleece9834 4 ปีที่แล้ว +791

    I’m sure people think this is inhumane. However the reality of it all is everyone wants food at rock bottom price so they can spend it on the latest iPhone or Xbox.

    • @dhruvg8472
      @dhruvg8472 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

      Don't count vegetarians like me.

    • @Ninjasplitter
      @Ninjasplitter 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Vegetables are just as cheap if not cheaper and don’t result in dead animals.

    • @dkwhattouseasusername1012
      @dkwhattouseasusername1012 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

      @@Ninjasplitter actually there are some places where vegetables are more expensive than meat

    • @frankchen4229
      @frankchen4229 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@dkwhattouseasusername1012 yea but dont neglect the fact the cheapest items on the market are rice and beans

    • @dkwhattouseasusername1012
      @dkwhattouseasusername1012 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@frankchen4229 well do you just eat 1 rice or something you count it by 1kg and sometimes they are still more expensive than meat

  • @Yorosero
    @Yorosero 3 ปีที่แล้ว +82

    Back in the day my Chinese parents and grandparents could only afford a chicken on special days like Chinese New Year and even then that was split between 6 siblings, with the best part going to the youngest. Now a whole chicken costs about a £5 which is significantly less than an hour's work worth of wages.

    • @veryconfused9768
      @veryconfused9768 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes they made it cheap using chemical

    • @AJ-vs3yz
      @AJ-vs3yz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@veryconfused9768 your comment makes sense, when looking at your account name

    • @elainegeokchenglow5299
      @elainegeokchenglow5299 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      same to mine. when i was young, the chicken meat tasted and the soup smelled totally different from now.

    • @AntiFurryNatio
      @AntiFurryNatio ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Same applies to Indian too, our grand parents ate vegetables and chickens were considered for rare occasions, as chicken where expensive not only because Indians were poor, but because of lack of technology, after Green revolution and 1991 free market reforms (End of socialist era) People are rich and biotechnology is abundant. Hence chicken is now available everyday on table.
      Asia is seen alot of bad times.

  • @yunguangjin8728
    @yunguangjin8728 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1107

    Everyday TH-cam algorithm is giving me more and more random stuff and I ain't even mad.

    • @vagasint.4345
      @vagasint.4345 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The end is near

    • @LolLol-up2oy
      @LolLol-up2oy 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Same bro

    • @unusuario5173
      @unusuario5173 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      There's no need for 'channels' from ye olde network/cable/satellite tv. TH-cam already offers me what I want to watch. How does it know it? Beats me.

    • @cynthiaayers7696
      @cynthiaayers7696 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      They keep a record of what you do like to watch, then they recommend. Kind of like the librarian that knows you and the books you usually check out.
      Back in the day, they called that a paper trail............🔄. Now, it's called tracking algorithms.... so if you sit and watch trucks, mountain bikes, or whatever all the time, that's what you will find in your recommended.

    • @user-uq3um5nq7d
      @user-uq3um5nq7d 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Atleast I'm not bored
      That's what matters

  • @ramandeepsingh2260
    @ramandeepsingh2260 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2285

    I love how they try to make the video less cruel using music 😂

    • @Therongunner
      @Therongunner 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Define cruel?

    • @conversationswithyou5737
      @conversationswithyou5737 5 ปีที่แล้ว +56

      I was thinking the exact same thing 😂. If they put dark horror music behind this, this video would send a completely different message.

    • @vincenttheo8841
      @vincenttheo8841 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      This is the power of rhetorics, which indeed includes the BGM.

    • @luigidisanpietro3720
      @luigidisanpietro3720 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@conversationswithyou5737 I remembered Chicken Run actually...

    • @V1Pin
      @V1Pin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      I love how people are so soft that they think eating meat is cruel 😂

  • @donnaallgaier-lamberti3933
    @donnaallgaier-lamberti3933 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    MY organic chicken in SW Michigan is $2.99 a lb. I looked at a chicken tomorrow at Aldies and a two pack of 2, 2 lb. chickens was almost $30.00!! When my son and granddaughter come for dinner that $30.00 for the meat. That means almost $60.00 for Sunday dinner for 4!

  • @wpyoga
    @wpyoga 3 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    "If the demand was there, we'd all be doing it" -- well said.

    • @nebojsag.5871
      @nebojsag.5871 15 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Just go vegan ffs.

  • @nono1058
    @nono1058 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1543

    Nobody:
    TH-cam algorithm: "Why is chicken so cheap?"

    • @michalblasko8740
      @michalblasko8740 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Please tell me what does mean "Nobody:"

    • @Jkapricorn
      @Jkapricorn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Noone said anything about chicken, I get a vid in my recommendations lol so random.

    • @Jkapricorn
      @Jkapricorn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Shin90 I'm a vegetarian myself, I'm like wtf

    • @adrian15049
      @adrian15049 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Simply Mindfulness if you need a reason to be vegan than you are not vegan even if you think you are

    • @crisscrosszx
      @crisscrosszx 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      well, i was talking with my niece about KFC 1 hour ago, then this pops out of nowhere...
      Coincidence? I don't think so

  • @Danny-li6ht
    @Danny-li6ht 5 ปีที่แล้ว +335

    Farmer: “these chickens aren’t cheap they have worth”
    The Economist: “why are chickens so cheap”

    • @ncrtrooper3841
      @ncrtrooper3841 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      No animal should be treated as property. Progress is inevitable.

    • @Lion-dm5xg
      @Lion-dm5xg ปีที่แล้ว

      You are wrong. To the farmer, they are no less than a crop they can hurt any way they want.

    • @alalbiston694
      @alalbiston694 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Farmer: “these chickens aren’t cheap they have worth but that means we can still cull male chicks and fatten up chickens so they can't even walk."

  • @AlexSantF
    @AlexSantF 3 ปีที่แล้ว +293

    ''if animals don't want to be eaten why are they made out of food?''

    • @Shiva-jj6vb
      @Shiva-jj6vb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Exactly.

    • @fashiue6615
      @fashiue6615 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      "If humans arent meant to be eaten why are they made out of meat?"

    • @AlexSantF
      @AlexSantF 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @idk It's just a joke 0-0

    • @AlexSantF
      @AlexSantF 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @idk it's not too hard to understand.. We eat their flesh. So.. they're in some way made out of "food", because we eat them

    • @gentlestickman3680
      @gentlestickman3680 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @idk dude it's just a dumb joke. Not sure why this is so hard for you to get.

  • @gammoth_
    @gammoth_ 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The conveyor belt part gave me chills.

  • @adan3956
    @adan3956 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2728

    Poor chicken. They're too delicious to live on this world

    • @stebarg
      @stebarg 4 ปีที่แล้ว +82

      I guess they taste the same as you and me.

    • @vagasint.4345
      @vagasint.4345 4 ปีที่แล้ว +142

      Stefan idk I have to check that

    • @mustafajuventino9964
      @mustafajuventino9964 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      😂😂😂😂

    • @Pau_Pau9
      @Pau_Pau9 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      😢😋

    • @duyson5632
      @duyson5632 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      😋😋😋

  • @Johnniewalker78
    @Johnniewalker78 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1562

    Calling all chickens cheap is kind of rude. Some are just frugal.

    • @dayakwarfighter7477
      @dayakwarfighter7477 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Some just play hard to get

    • @psilynt1
      @psilynt1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Only the chicks cheep.

    • @pablodavidclavijo4609
      @pablodavidclavijo4609 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      They just understand the importance of financial solvency

    • @LeeRaldar
      @LeeRaldar 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @trstnhn What kind of tenuous link is this?

    • @ivobreeschoten5442
      @ivobreeschoten5442 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @trstnhn specieist

  • @svanteforsman8244
    @svanteforsman8244 3 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    Chicken farmer: It’s healthy.
    The next Bird Flu virus: Hold my beer.

    • @a2e5
      @a2e5 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      At least cooking works on viruses. BSE on the other hand…

    • @namenotfound8747
      @namenotfound8747 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Your comment didn’t age well. Only a sec of Chinese people eat bats and we got COVID, no where near how many people eat chicken. If we know anything about viruses is that if their ever was a deadly virus bats would be low on the list and most be would say chicken, beef, pork would be at the top, fish maybe too. Yet that didn’t happen. Even when you posted your comment, it was obsolete since we were in the middle of pandemic. How tone deaf could you be?

  • @n.n5641
    @n.n5641 3 ปีที่แล้ว +275

    Why is chicken so cheap- because you're rich
    Why is chicken so costly- because you're poor

    • @random-b-i2480
      @random-b-i2480 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Why there's kids in my basement- because i can eat them later

    • @user-zi1gg4cn5h
      @user-zi1gg4cn5h 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

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    • @lalalhmar6118
      @lalalhmar6118 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hosa asey bro.

    • @aim__freakz8499
      @aim__freakz8499 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      not at all. that's the problem cheap meat is mostly eaten by poorer people.

  • @garylinyongjia2574
    @garylinyongjia2574 5 ปีที่แล้ว +460

    Humans:The chickens in this look cute.
    Also humans: watching this while eating KFC

    • @midnightblues9974
      @midnightblues9974 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Damn that's so true only eating I'm zaxbys, but still!

    • @techguy3424
      @techguy3424 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Animals can be both cute and delicious.

    • @ryuuou07
      @ryuuou07 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I was going to to watch this while eating Buffalo Wild Wings but I decided against it.

    • @betterthannice6131
      @betterthannice6131 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      They are both friends and food :)

    • @currently_In_stealth_behind_u
      @currently_In_stealth_behind_u 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      lmao same

  • @MFRiley
    @MFRiley 5 ปีที่แล้ว +755

    That's how I know I'm broke... I think chicken is expensive..

    • @Crawkid
      @Crawkid 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      depends...how much is a whole chicken for you? I know price has gone up recently around here

    • @UNKNOWNANG3L
      @UNKNOWNANG3L 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      @@Crawkid around where? Around TH-cam ? :/

    • @Crawkid
      @Crawkid 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@UNKNOWNANG3L ...no....the UP of Michigan, as it were. I don't buy my chicken from youtube XD

    • @Generatorsarefake
      @Generatorsarefake 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MFRiley damn triggered

    • @chandranshpandey1929
      @chandranshpandey1929 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      In india prices are around 2 dollar for a whole chicken, i think its cheap even for indians

  • @noblebrown6580
    @noblebrown6580 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    “Why is chicken so delicious” should be the next video

  • @robf1801
    @robf1801 3 ปีที่แล้ว +194

    "It's our job to nurture them" *shows chicken concentration camp*

    • @subramanianmuthusamy9700
      @subramanianmuthusamy9700 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      That's why people are going vegan

    • @avatar1867
      @avatar1867 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@subramanianmuthusamy9700
      Lol what people

    • @0xsunil
      @0xsunil 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@avatar1867 he said people bro. not wild animals.

  • @DesertVox
    @DesertVox 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1739

    The whole 'ANIMAL RIGHTS' issue gets black-holed in this case. Otherwise, 1 mistreated dog will get 1,000 media-hours coverage.

    • @fryliver4953
      @fryliver4953 5 ปีที่แล้ว +262

      Yeah I'm a vegetarian but eye-roll whenever there's some massive animal rights media campaign over a monkey or mistreated cat or something. That's like 0.00001% of the animals murdered. Odd how people irrationally anthropomorphise some animals over others

    • @osmantv6901
      @osmantv6901 5 ปีที่แล้ว +200

      @G or you lack basic comprehension skills

    • @XOPOIIIO
      @XOPOIIIO 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      Chicken are stupid, they don't know they are exploited. Dogs, on the other hand, are very close to humans psychologically and can feel almost the same as humans.

    • @Lewis360
      @Lewis360 5 ปีที่แล้ว +249

      @@XOPOIIIO Pigs are way smarter than dogs, and are much closer to humans in terms of biology, yet pork is the most eaten meat in the world.

    • @XOPOIIIO
      @XOPOIIIO 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@Lewis360 Yes, but still they are not smart enough to understand that they are victims. I believe though that there must be improvement in butchering process, in many places it's still quite painful and scary for them, I believe they must be electrocuted before they even know what is happening.

  • @AbdullahDakhaikh
    @AbdullahDakhaikh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +495

    "They are not cheap.. They have worth..."
    Video title "chicken so cheap"..
    I like the thank-you-for-your-opinion way...

    • @maceinmyeyes6915
      @maceinmyeyes6915 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Pretty sure he wasn’t the one who made the video lmaooo

    • @bestamerica
      @bestamerica 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      '
      hi A D...
      who is a word - THEY -

    • @AbdullahDakhaikh
      @AbdullahDakhaikh 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@bestamerica go to 3:05

    • @jeanmahmoudventilateur3480
      @jeanmahmoudventilateur3480 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      When they speak about chicken is the meat, do you buy a living chicken every day ?

    • @coldogno7
      @coldogno7 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      cheap is cheap....many ppl throw away unfinished food in uk,killing a life but only best part are eaten while the rest like head,liver,feet are thrown away like valueless garbage
      atleast in some asian country we eat most of it...even the intestine!

  • @fatman989
    @fatman989 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    All chickens are free from hormones. Why does she say only organic chickens are ???

  • @crysis4real
    @crysis4real 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    One thing I have learned from this that there are more chickens than us Human's !

    • @BurgerKingFootLettuce
      @BurgerKingFootLettuce 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Like if you eat a chicken once a week, all year...you alone would end up eating 52 chickens...in 10 years 520 chickens and 50 years Around 2600 chickens and remember...the facts I'm calculating are bare minimum so what do you think if it is applied to Like 70 %of humanity
      Excluding the poor, and less fortunate ppl and those who are vegetarian or vegan(like me)
      Nothing bro, just some faxx

    • @GhostBrian
      @GhostBrian 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Like most animals farmed for food

  • @kathyfausett9301
    @kathyfausett9301 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2005

    This video says far more about humans than chickens.

    • @user-xd4sk4pk7h
      @user-xd4sk4pk7h 5 ปีที่แล้ว +68

      So true, 7 billion humans but over 23 billion chickens. How greedy have we become...

    • @BrianAndersonTT
      @BrianAndersonTT 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      @@user-xd4sk4pk7h and that 23 is going to far less than 7.

    • @kathyfausett9301
      @kathyfausett9301 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@JumboCod91 Smart? Not so sure. The birds might have the last laugh.

    • @markgerhard1362
      @markgerhard1362 5 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      @@JumboCod91 Most humans are as dim as you: they are intellectually incapable of empathizing with the suffering of another species.

    • @890W216
      @890W216 5 ปีที่แล้ว +96

      Mark Gerhard does the lion sympathise for the deer?

  • @zozjotej
    @zozjotej 5 ปีที่แล้ว +212

    "if demand is there, we would be doing it!" Covered the whole story.

  • @francissantos7448
    @francissantos7448 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Many years ago I tasted my first commercially raised chicken. The flavor was like eating paper. Beforehand, the chicken I had been eating were what we call now as free range chicken. Now, I can get the same flavor when I use mature chickens labeled as "roasting" birds. I only prefer the dark meat and back bones of the less expensive 6 week old birds. I experimented with smoking the breast meat. Not bad if it is not too salty.

  • @liezlemeredith
    @liezlemeredith 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Chickens deserve so much more respect!

  • @somuchsmartmic6199
    @somuchsmartmic6199 5 ปีที่แล้ว +548

    *KFC Wants to know your location*

    • @pawpad1777
      @pawpad1777 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      KFC already knows the location

    • @andyh7777
      @andyh7777 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Jokes on you, KFC actually use rodent meat

    • @supashep1
      @supashep1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@andyh7777 you mean flying rodent aka chicken of the cave lol

    • @ahmedp800
      @ahmedp800 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Texas Chicken also 😂😂

    • @andyh7777
      @andyh7777 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@supashep1 one of the only good quotes in a terrible movie

  • @Billywong
    @Billywong 5 ปีที่แล้ว +848

    Free Range chicken...
    I am not even a free range human being

    • @krishnamohan2351
      @krishnamohan2351 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      How did you type this shit if you were not one?

    • @appletree8441
      @appletree8441 5 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      he was forced to

    • @Shark_Arise
      @Shark_Arise 5 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      That's your choice, they have none. You also weren't unnecessarily killed on the 40th day of your Life.

    • @ProfessorTravis
      @ProfessorTravis 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      BillyWong what are you doing out of your cube!?

    • @vitovito123
      @vitovito123 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Can people can get a sense of honour

  • @RubinaMerchant
    @RubinaMerchant 4 ปีที่แล้ว +62

    Just got my first pet chicken 5 days ago, they have intelligence, character and attitude. Hate to see them in cages and assembly lines :( if everyone are chicken once a month only, people like him would not need to be "market driven". Very sad that we as consumer drive this cruelty.

    • @kateybanez9304
      @kateybanez9304 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I agree, I myself have a pet rooster and chickens. They all have grown to me and my family and we love them very dearly. They learn fast and peck at us when they want something we are eating especially during dinner, we let them roam free at our house most of the time so they get really fond about what we do daily. We have a rice dispenser where you push buttons to dispense rice out and our pet rooster would attempt to press buttons as well and pull out the container to get raw rice. Its very smart of him and its very questionable since most people assume chickens are very unintelligent and are biologically born to have smaller brains. They can and have character the same as we have trained our cats and our dogs, but often people go with dogs and cats since their adorable and reliable, not to mention a very amazing attraction to media. Its heartbreaking that I myself love eating chicken and that the reason why these companies continue to thrive is because of consumers like us that support their business. And knowing that I have pet chickens at home is literally like eating another one of them unintentionally.

    • @onemoregodrejected9369
      @onemoregodrejected9369 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Pets and consumption animals are different.
      Using a pet as food is basically a crime and inhumane since we supose to love the pet as a fellow family member while food is food. Regardless the race of the food (besides human, we really have 5o avoud that one animal race in particular since goea against our survival...) any domestic race can turn into pet if gets a family but we cannot deny our necesities.
      Also many pets are carnivore so...

    • @bloopbloopy2893
      @bloopbloopy2893 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@kateybanez9304 just eat less and make sure the chickens you eat had at least a decent life. It's biology to want meat so don't feel bad but it's not biology to eat battery chickens.

    • @kateybanez9304
      @kateybanez9304 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@bloopbloopy2893 oh no, I dont eat the chicken I take care as a pet. Please dont mistake it like that, because I usually dont even get to eat chicken often, also, I was just elaborating that now that i have a chicken as a pet i feel bad about eating their kind. Oh goodness, I do not mean to eat my pets.

    • @cma6812
      @cma6812 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cages and disassembly* lines!

  • @thomaswright3750
    @thomaswright3750 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Man this is so cruel how we treat other animals in this world and the world itself.

  • @dazhibernian
    @dazhibernian 5 ปีที่แล้ว +522

    The chickens will unite and rise up. Their time will come.

    • @quocvietophu1627
      @quocvietophu1627 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Chicken gang rises up

    • @brad349miller
      @brad349miller 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      th-cam.com/video/PBxqIHj8qRg/w-d-xo.html

    • @KurenaiKimitsu
      @KurenaiKimitsu 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      only up until about 39 days in age... before their bred genetics handicaps them and eventually kills them. (excluding free range and organic)

    • @bhimawaskita2540
      @bhimawaskita2540 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Rise of the chicken

    • @IamINERT
      @IamINERT 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Chicken rangers

  • @nickgehr6916
    @nickgehr6916 5 ปีที่แล้ว +550

    It's not chicken, it's pygmy feathered t-rex

    • @shoaibakhtar4389
      @shoaibakhtar4389 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Correct 😂

    • @leoprg5330
      @leoprg5330 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I love organic eggs from our grass fed chickens, but seeing that video of "industrial" food production makes me want to go vegetarian.

    • @90AlmostFamous
      @90AlmostFamous 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      At this rate , we could see chickens as big as dinosaurs in our lifetime

    • @OPTIMUMELITE
      @OPTIMUMELITE 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@90AlmostFamous
      I don't get what your saying?!

    • @90AlmostFamous
      @90AlmostFamous 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@OPTIMUMELITE chicken became 4 times larger in 50 years, imagine what it will become in next 100yrs, ok i may have exaggerated the dinosaurs part a bit :D

  • @ilhwisloui
    @ilhwisloui 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    2:08 - 2:10 bruh thats perfect, “that’s so raven” but chicken version.

  • @neverletmego6414
    @neverletmego6414 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    how to win the bird war:
    other birds: adapt, improvise, get stronger and more flexible!
    chicken: be meat, my friend

  • @GothPlatypus
    @GothPlatypus 5 ปีที่แล้ว +458

    39 days versus 10 years? That's the equivalent of a human living 292.5 days versus 75 years

    • @viplami
      @viplami 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Peter So you realise what you said is pretty dumb right?

    • @witchcraftbdo3212
      @witchcraftbdo3212 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Imagine if we are butchering 290-300day old babies for our meat ^^

    • @101osin1010
      @101osin1010 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@witchcraftbdo3212 that would be really ineffective i mean its only a couple of pounds when adults can be a couple hundred

    • @101osin1010
      @101osin1010 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@viplami wooooosh

    • @samarpreet605
      @samarpreet605 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Please put that comma out.

  • @suscontent2904
    @suscontent2904 5 ปีที่แล้ว +569

    Most effective way to survive as a spieces:
    Become food for humans.

    • @Patapon1222
      @Patapon1222 5 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Or be as cuddly as possible to become human's pets and adored animals
      Case in point:
      Pandas (they have to make panda porn to entice the males to reproduce, otherwise shit ain't happening, yet we still help them)
      Pandas get super special treatment but non cuddly endangereds only get pocket changes for their survival

    • @tinfoilhat38
      @tinfoilhat38 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      So we should start a selective breeding program for panda meat. Mmmm panda burger.

    • @n3gi_
      @n3gi_ 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      He is absolutely right. If Pandas were as popular as Chicken(as edible meat), they wouldn't be in endangered species.

    • @boosay568
      @boosay568 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Can someone breed smol pandas already I want to adopt one. Like come on we changed chickens and dogs why not pandas??

    • @BlazingAzureTheta
      @BlazingAzureTheta 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@boosay568 We can domestic cats and dogs because they are social creatures with low lifespans and low food costs. Pandas are solitary creatures with long livespans and high food costs. That's why most big animals are not domesticated.

  • @rutabfarooque26
    @rutabfarooque26 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    I read " Why is children so cheap" and instantly clicked at only to find disappointment.

    • @minhtrido969
      @minhtrido969 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      HolUp

    • @fatshpee7174
      @fatshpee7174 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I'm calling the cops

    • @AsifTown
      @AsifTown 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      You my friend got dyslexic

    • @user-zi1gg4cn5h
      @user-zi1gg4cn5h 3 ปีที่แล้ว

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    • @hitsugayatoshiro9517
      @hitsugayatoshiro9517 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ayo hol'up

  • @IAMTRASHMAN267
    @IAMTRASHMAN267 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    “Cheep cheep cheep cheeeeeeeeep”
    - Tommy Wiseau

  • @anshitkumar6347
    @anshitkumar6347 5 ปีที่แล้ว +488

    Look at all those chickens!

  • @ricasiogaming7873
    @ricasiogaming7873 4 ปีที่แล้ว +667

    Imagine living two months in a crowded cage with millions of clones of you. And then getting attached to a conveyor belt and killed.

    • @Bigjoebig
      @Bigjoebig 3 ปีที่แล้ว +124

      Except their brain is the size of a peanut

    • @nikhil3155
      @nikhil3155 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @Trees Lakes 👌👌🇮🇳🇮🇳

    • @Bigjoebig
      @Bigjoebig 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Yieri i humans have thicker skins and go into deep sleep and have bigger brains to process more

    • @madman7544
      @madman7544 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      We are mostly same,we are all livings on earth.
      If they were us they would eat us surely that's why we need to work on technology for better options of energy and food.

    • @ricasiogaming7873
      @ricasiogaming7873 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@uerivbuywecrwefdqervwrrwgv9843 Bruh I’m not even a vegetarian I’m just saying we should have enough pride to treat other animals better.

  • @kingk2405
    @kingk2405 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The price range for a chicken is between 3$ for the industrial ones up to 60$ for the top like the chicken de Bresse in France . In between, for 15 to 20$ you get the organic ones.

  • @akils.s.s7997
    @akils.s.s7997 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    233.23 million years ago: Fearsome animal that conquered the whole earth.
    Now:*CHICKEN DINNER*

  • @adrianak4997
    @adrianak4997 5 ปีที่แล้ว +324

    Easy to feed.
    Easy to live.
    Less cost.
    Equals Cheap.

    • @sweetclk77
      @sweetclk77 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      125 likes and no comments

    • @xtcbt9798
      @xtcbt9798 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Here's some more comments

    • @vikashg4474
      @vikashg4474 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      plus horrible hormones

    • @davidchang5265
      @davidchang5265 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@vikashg4474 Not even that bad man

    • @fumaaa5643
      @fumaaa5643 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And delicious

  • @fernandolopes8592
    @fernandolopes8592 5 ปีที่แล้ว +515

    2:24
    So in a hundreds years from now, we can have the dinosaurs back.

    • @bobbiusshadow6985
      @bobbiusshadow6985 5 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Yup, T-Rex meat would be great great value

    • @appletree8441
      @appletree8441 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      If it's good enough for Fred Flintstone it would be good enough for me.
      But you or nobody will has or ever will see a living dinosaur

    • @arjunmangal5281
      @arjunmangal5281 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      and you can buy *whole dinosaur* from walmart for cheap

    • @6squall9
      @6squall9 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@appletree8441 Many scientists believe that birds are direct descendants of dinosaurs. So the OP joke was about us learning to manipulate genes to return them to original size for optimal profit.

    • @TrungTran-yg3uv
      @TrungTran-yg3uv 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@6squall9 descendants? birds *are* dinosaurs.

  • @carlosparra9527
    @carlosparra9527 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There is also a big difference in taste between organic chicken and mass product chicken. My family almost always get organic chicken, we take them from our Grandma farm

  • @vivekanandan5093
    @vivekanandan5093 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    4:17 kids smiling and caring for chicks...
    The same night have Chicken for feast....

    • @mfadhilal-fatih1427
      @mfadhilal-fatih1427 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I had chicken as pet back then..

    • @vivekanandan5093
      @vivekanandan5093 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mfadhilal-fatih1427 I can imagine what would have happened after few years.....

  • @samuraijo2818
    @samuraijo2818 5 ปีที่แล้ว +494

    some animals we're harmed during the making of this video

    • @LeonDieBoer
      @LeonDieBoer 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      yeah, and many many many humans were fed high quality animal protein at an affordable price. Your point?

    • @goosty17
      @goosty17 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@LeonDieBoer It isn't right. Learn to eat vegetables.

    • @BornGam3r
      @BornGam3r 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Leon Hall ‘high quality animal protein’ not even close lmao. Saturated fat, excess dietary cholesterol, IGF-1, estrogen, etc. is unhealthy.

    • @ethanp3816
      @ethanp3816 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      A least animals can be put out of their misery. Vegetables are still alive when we cook them,or eat them raw.

    • @Liberty_Freedom_Brotherhood
      @Liberty_Freedom_Brotherhood 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thousands

  • @18utkb
    @18utkb 4 ปีที่แล้ว +614

    Everyone: Chickens deserve a better life
    KFC: I am about to end this Man's whole career

    • @megsinzoa7424
      @megsinzoa7424 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Demand = supply
      Supply = demand
      Personal responsibility? Never met that guy.

    • @enricofermi3471
      @enricofermi3471 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Texas Chicken (also known as Church's Chicken in the US, I believe) make better chicken than KFC, though. Well, to my taste, at least.

    • @markyyyyyyyy321
      @markyyyyyyyy321 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Which man? What are you talking about

    • @petervangeli6656
      @petervangeli6656 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      KFC....occultistic satanic torture of chickens with the famous herbs n spices😈😁

  • @Biobele
    @Biobele 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That Chicken was given her best blue steel look noice

  • @Yeagerists1321
    @Yeagerists1321 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    2019: why is chicken so cheep?
    2025: why is chicken getting so expensive
    In jamaica a pound of chicken is 230$ quickly chasing after fish, pork and beef....

    • @aone1527
      @aone1527 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In the UK £2.50 for halal chicken. Cheaper than a bowl of okra

    • @pipoypipoy9761
      @pipoypipoy9761 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@aone1527 lady finger?

  • @308_Negra_Arroyo_Lane
    @308_Negra_Arroyo_Lane 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I wonder what broiler humans would look like if bred by aliens for food.

    • @oswarz
      @oswarz 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      There's a Twilight Zone with Rod Sterling episode on exactly that.

    • @d3r4g45
      @d3r4g45 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Perhaps we already are just don't know it, just like this chickens don't know it.

    • @308_Negra_Arroyo_Lane
      @308_Negra_Arroyo_Lane 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@oswarz Must be "To Serve Man". Gonna go watch it now.

    • @paulsawczyc5019
      @paulsawczyc5019 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Think about it - we are hairless and we eat lots of sugar.

  • @friendlysnows4945
    @friendlysnows4945 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    “tHeY’rE nOt cHeAP tHeY hAvE woRTh”
    Title: cheap

  • @juanmanuelpenaloza9264
    @juanmanuelpenaloza9264 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Simply put, we've bred chickens to be dependent on our consumption. Although it would be nice for them to have some open air roaming before they get butchered.

  • @hawwaahmed772
    @hawwaahmed772 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Poor birds living in cramped conditions.

  • @jiithi
    @jiithi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +800

    Chickens aren't cheap, they're just trying to save some money.

    • @WhittyWhitts
      @WhittyWhitts 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      They’re chicken to spend more money

    • @mariachurch9674
      @mariachurch9674 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Cheap as Chicks.

    • @ninja1inblack105
      @ninja1inblack105 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Dark White have you ever gone to the store? My local supermarket has a chicken isle. It looks just like the one in this video. Intensively reared chickens, free-range, and organic. The prices are drastically different. The IR chickens are by far the cheapest and Organic costs the most. Both of the company’s are making the same profit. The extra cost and savings are handed down to the consumer. Again the video explains it all.

    • @jiithi
      @jiithi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@ninja1inblack105 r/woooosh

    • @kronkrian100
      @kronkrian100 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Cheapskates all of them.

  • @vic5015
    @vic5015 5 ปีที่แล้ว +310

    Two words: factory farming

    • @LearnToCompound
      @LearnToCompound 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I only buy pasture raised eggs or 108 sq feet

    • @mark98115
      @mark98115 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Mako Shark
      I buy organic or sometimes free range chicken. I only buy eggs from pasture raised chickens and most of the time organic There is a huge difference between eggs from pasture raised chickens and others. You can see it in the color of the yoke and taste the difference.

    • @LearnToCompound
      @LearnToCompound 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      me not you we were buying England’s best up to a few years ago when I found out What was happening now We only by pasture raised eggs It says on the box 108 sq feet per hen that’s is awesome

    • @mark98115
      @mark98115 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Mako Shark
      I bet you can teste the difference too.
      Knowing how factory farming chickens are treated, I cannot in good conscience buy their eggs.
      I am not some vegan and eat meat but I buy from sources that I believe are healthy and nit abusive to the animals.

    • @ConstantChaos1
      @ConstantChaos1 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes and?

  • @brooklynchase6206
    @brooklynchase6206 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    My dude just spammed the chicken egg spawner

  • @damiengitt
    @damiengitt 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    That’s why food in the Uk is mostly tasteless and cheap
    It’s sad to think about food just at feeding someone and not as food or meals !!!

    • @PHlophe
      @PHlophe 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Damian, not really, buy your meat at Mark and spencer instead of tescoes. A couple quid extra but you ain't going to get those long term nasty diseases associated with mass production. Doe je best !

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  • @Voltraken
    @Voltraken 5 ปีที่แล้ว +626

    4:08 "pretty chicks? Yes sir" 😂.....
    Proceeds to show 2 little girls 0_o

    • @random-0
      @random-0 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      lol

    • @TheOnlyInformant
      @TheOnlyInformant 5 ปีที่แล้ว +110

      FBI, OPEN UP!

    • @IrfanullahJan
      @IrfanullahJan 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      lol nice catch

    • @martinbernardino1
      @martinbernardino1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Ladies and gentlemen, we got em!

    • @LucasKsh
      @LucasKsh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      mohammed also said that after seeing aisha😂😂

  • @youzhang9201
    @youzhang9201 4 ปีที่แล้ว +523

    " dinosaur" is still the most successful animal on the planet.

    • @moesyzslak2939
      @moesyzslak2939 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Its the most expensive meat too YOU ZHANG

    • @delanceybannerman2135
      @delanceybannerman2135 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Agreed😂😂😂

    • @rajasimanta
      @rajasimanta 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Underated comment

    • @enricofermi3471
      @enricofermi3471 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      I believe you meant that chicken and birds in general are, technically, super distant relatives/descendants of dinosaurs? Yeah, they definitely are, and thanks to their long presence in the biosphere, their meat is easily digestible to many predators/omnivores.

    • @kotarojujo2737
      @kotarojujo2737 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      @@enricofermi3471 chicken are not relatives of dinosaur. Chicken are dinosaur. All birds are classified as dinosaur because they're evolved from from theropod dinosaur, thus make them still dinosaur.

  • @ewaoconnor7978
    @ewaoconnor7978 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Poor chickens 😔 I buy free range ones to give them better life and better health for my family

  • @justinmoss6567
    @justinmoss6567 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    im looking at the price of the chicken like "this aint adding up" and then i factor inflation smh...

  • @Darkshadow-ll8ge
    @Darkshadow-ll8ge 5 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    Chicken like crossing the street
    Because they know they're cheap

  • @damn671
    @damn671 5 ปีที่แล้ว +121

    *I keep hearing “intensively weird chicken”*

  • @Rural-Pakistan
    @Rural-Pakistan 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I liked to hear that man while saying, birds are not cheap they are having a worth.

  • @kmm1863
    @kmm1863 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    This report didnt age so well

  • @kaptain1477
    @kaptain1477 5 ปีที่แล้ว +123

    “Intensively reared”
    so that’s what we’re gonna call it.

    • @meeblings6
      @meeblings6 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Lol that sounds suggestive

    • @ohyeahminecraft
      @ohyeahminecraft 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      nexus prime extreme deregulation is also a cause, it’s why we’re having so many chicken recalls

    • @MadeagoestoNam
      @MadeagoestoNam 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's what it's called.

    • @JamieR1988
      @JamieR1988 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@meeblings6
      I got intensively reared last night. Can't fucking sit down today!

    • @FawzieK
      @FawzieK 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sounds like it got forcefully buggered.

  • @given-namesurname5740
    @given-namesurname5740 5 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    Keep in mind greenwashing is a thing with terms like free range Nd organic and how companies try to exploit them, but look at the difference in the feathers

    • @atokagawa5596
      @atokagawa5596 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I think it's a different breed of chicken. Red hens are in the footages of the free range, it is the most common breed in my country and sells as regular

    • @iHateCatHaters
      @iHateCatHaters 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I can confirm your statement. I have owned chickens my whole life (just for self feeding) and the difference from a well kept chicken and one who has been living in small spaces with only concentrated food is all about their feathers. If they are uniformly distributed and the are soft at touching, then it was an well kept one.

    • @andwelecastleberry5423
      @andwelecastleberry5423 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Actually those things are less green because they take up more space, and lead to increase climatic impact

    • @Jason-nn2ik
      @Jason-nn2ik 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Established "Pecking Order" : the basic pattern of social organization within a flock of poultry in which each bird pecks another lower in the scale without fear of retaliation and submits to pecking by one of higher rank broadly : a dominance hierarchy in a group of social animals. --- This is why they have no feathers. Surrounded constantly by dozens of other random hens doing what hens do fighting to be alpha. The free range have fewer hens more room and longer time alive to have less frequent dominance trials thus more developed feathers.

  • @NoName-ml6hd
    @NoName-ml6hd 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Look at all those chicken!

  • @amazonbharath
    @amazonbharath 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    3:11 it's healthy for you😂😂😂😂

  • @kell2883
    @kell2883 5 ปีที่แล้ว +92

    I actually found this quite interesting, looking into the world of farming and the impact it has on the consumer is pretty neat

    • @bikinggal1
      @bikinggal1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      NEAT?

    • @kell2883
      @kell2883 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      bikinggal1 guess it’s the only word I could think of at the moment

  • @TheSunMoon
    @TheSunMoon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +66

    Chicken: "who you calling cheap?!"
    Me: "ah, but the good die young.."

  • @rosh9414
    @rosh9414 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    My mouth kept watering throughout.....

  • @puneettripathi740
    @puneettripathi740 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    It's quite heartbreaking, when most of countries are producing enough to feed upon agriculture they still choose these animals...
    I forgot to mention playing sweet music while showing processing of chicken won't make the picture look decent, it's actually the killing

  • @1mfilms
    @1mfilms 5 ปีที่แล้ว +446

    These chickens are living in the Matrix.
    They don't know the purpose of their lives or the outside world. They are given everything they need. From their point of view, their life seems good enough. And they are grown for the purpose of giving nourishment to another being.

    • @maromega432
      @maromega432 5 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      So what? you feel sorry for them ?
      We humans live in the system as the chickens do. Our way is just way more painful but only few can see it, for the same reason :)

    • @jeremiahduke1707
      @jeremiahduke1707 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      This a good look into socialism just saying

    • @trueorient1544
      @trueorient1544 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      J. J. Define consciousness first.

    • @robertb6076
      @robertb6076 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      No, their horrifically short lives are miserable as they can't live in the way they have evolved to enjoy.

    • @hachiman7512
      @hachiman7512 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@robertb6076 like getting savagely ripped to pieces by other predators in the wild

  • @suijinheki1919
    @suijinheki1919 5 ปีที่แล้ว +203

    it's caused by winner winner chicken dinner phenomena

    • @chaseyourdream1930
      @chaseyourdream1930 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Haha so funny

    • @076657
      @076657 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That’s exactly right.

    • @toasty8547
      @toasty8547 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I have harmed some many chickens by that process and I just want the potatoes

  • @moonclawfox7306
    @moonclawfox7306 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    1:57 no one talking about that baby chick?!?! it's too CUTEEE

  • @someguy2135
    @someguy2135 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The benefits of switching to a purely plant based diet are amazing.
    1-Your own health (vegans are less likely to get several deadly chronic diseases)
    2-Helping to end animal agriculture would reduce the chance of another pandemic & other zoonotic diseases
    3-Helping to end animal ag would reduce the chance of the development of an antibiotic resistant pathogen.
    4-Animal ag wastes a huge amount of fresh water
    5-Animal ag is a major cause of water pollution
    6-Animal ag is a major cause of deforestation
    7-Animal ag increases PTSD and spousal abuse in the people who work in slaughterhouses
    8-Animal ag is a major cause of the loss of habitat and biodiversity
    9-Animal welfare, obviously
    10- It is the single most effective way for each of us to fight climate change and environmental degradation
    11- Longer lifespan.
    12- Healthier weight (vegans were the only dietary group in the Adventist Studies that had an average BMI in the recommended range.)
    Links for some of these are at my channel under "About."

  • @Hyraladen
    @Hyraladen 5 ปีที่แล้ว +133

    0:34 That's a dinosaur right there! Look at the face, so intimidating

    • @abdulkarimsaleh
      @abdulkarimsaleh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      he is mad because someone record him without premision

    • @samm7522
      @samm7522 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Birds evolved from Dinosaurs

    • @peaceout4132
      @peaceout4132 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I eat dinosaurs for dinner

    • @kostasz7z
      @kostasz7z 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@samm7522 No you are an ignorant fool. Dinosaurs are nothing more than birds and lizzards of the before Noah era.

    • @JohnTavastian
      @JohnTavastian 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Good thing I'm not a corn kernel.

  • @IZZATDESAMARAFIRDAUS
    @IZZATDESAMARAFIRDAUS 4 ปีที่แล้ว +252

    Me at 3am: i better go to sleep
    TH-cam recommend: Why chicken is so cheap 😭😂

  • @stev8645
    @stev8645 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    0:55 sounds like “cctv and chicken 💩”

  • @macho6596
    @macho6596 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The economist actually doing a non biased report? 🥳 this reporter deserves to run the company.

  • @crazybear2478
    @crazybear2478 5 ปีที่แล้ว +387

    Love the message of this video and bringing in a farmer who repeats that it is up to the consumer and that our choices dictate what world we want to live in.

    • @user-yx7dp2pl8t
      @user-yx7dp2pl8t 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      crazy bear for the vast majority there is no choice

    • @dennisp8520
      @dennisp8520 5 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@user-yx7dp2pl8t there is always choices we can make. That being said it doesn't mean those choices are easy or viable options. I personally don't care where my chicken comes from. So long as it's not killing me and it fills my body I'm happy.

    • @ProfessorTravis
      @ProfessorTravis 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      The farmer who donates to the politician and then pays dues to a bureau who employs lobbyists to generate legislation for said politician. Your taxes then subsidize operations like this, leaving the consumer with no other choice. It's a monopoly unless you fix the political structure.

    • @ceterumcenseocarthaginemes455
      @ceterumcenseocarthaginemes455 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yeah eat less meat

    • @erwinbravo1513
      @erwinbravo1513 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I was ready to see a miss-informed video, but they did a very good job. They left out some important information like how these intense productions DO have parameters they need to meet in order to fulfill the animals welfare.

  • @lennard6094
    @lennard6094 4 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    here in philippines we have chicken called "native" and its literally cage free. and when i said literally they are roaming the wild around 1-7 hectares depending on the farmers land. and yeah it taste very different. we only fed them in the morning (5am) usually coconut or corn. to keep them coming back.
    btw the price is around 4$ per kg of this native chicken

    • @masa-qi8cx
      @masa-qi8cx 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yep I own a lot of these and now Im crossbreeding natives with caber for larger yields of meat with the taste of native basically a native that weighs 8kgs

    • @Sourav_MadridCF
      @Sourav_MadridCF 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Price in india🇮🇳 (Odisha)
      2$ per kg retail rate
      1.3$ per kg Wholesale rate

    • @blackmarble7265
      @blackmarble7265 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      As far as I've tasted "wild" chicken meat tastes way harder than the domesticated

  • @damn671
    @damn671 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    At Whole Foods, 4 pieces of chicken breast is about $30.

  • @ximenalafken7305
    @ximenalafken7305 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Cheap? on 2022?
    Not anymore