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Student of architecture, Andre Ford, has proposed a new system of mass chicken production, in which, according to wired.co.uk, the birds will no longer have the main core of their brains. This means they won’t be able to suffer the atrocity of being packed in vertical yokes in which they are to grow to eventually end up on our plates.
The project, named The Centre for Unconscious Farming, is a response to the increase in chicken meat consumption and the cruelty associated with it that is so prevalent on factory farms.
Unconscious birds, in a manner resembling growing plants, will be connected to a network of tubes, through which food and water will be delivered.
Credits: Andre Ford
The vertical farm is designed to be more efficient than the traditional one. There could be as many as 11.7 chickens grown from one cubic metre in one of these new farms, whilst ‘only’ 3.2 chickens can be produced from a traditional farm.
Credits: Andre Ford
A mini-farm like this could even be installed and set up to work at home.
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I don’t know.. It sounds and looks horrific, on the other hand, as an animal rights activist, I would like the suffering of animals to end. These chickens would feel no pain or stress, on the contrary to the ones with brains raised on farms.
Perhaps any kind of animal exploitation is unethical?
I wouldn’t like to have the vertical farm installed at home for sure, it would give me nightmares!
Very unethical, so absurd..It’s like a Frankenstein the chicken version…Are we this desperate? We can’t just alter some process and shift into a short cut to cater with our voracious appetite, that’s insane…this is totally insane in a membrane.!
I think this idea is really terrible, I’m completely against it! I can’t believe people think of inventing stuff like this, its downright creapy and disgusting!