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Originally Posted by SouthernDemocrat  Ok, lets accept the premise that organic chicken results in significantly more greenhouse gasses than the big chicken house operations do.
That is only one factor as to which form of chicken farming results in a greater cost to society. For example, how much groundwater pollution typically results from chickenhouses? What about air pollution? You ever smelled one? The smell alone of a big commercial chickenhouse is by far the worst thing you have every smelled in your life.
I would wager that even with the higher greenhouse gas emissions, on balance, the environmental impacts of organic chicken farming is much lower than traditional chickenhouses. If thats the case, then it would be poor public policy to try to discourage organic chicken farming. |
I am one who has been in a commercial chicken house, and yes, the smell is powerful. But chickens poop about the same whether inside or outside. Being inside, that poop can be collected and sold. Ever use chicken poop? Fair warning, a little goes a long way. It is powerful stuff. I bought a one cubic foot box of dried chicken poop, used a few cups on 2 citrus trees and then gave the rest of it to a friend who used all the rest of it on his lawn, at one time. He had to put on extra water to keep the grass from getting "burned" from the fertilizer, which "reconstituted the stench, and made his neighbors complain. It was a small lawn, and he used too much.
Commercial farming exists to increase efficiency, and except for the concentrated smell, it makes sense.
And there is something worse than chicken poop smell at a commercial farm. Try hog farms.....just driving by one is near fatal to your olfactory nerves...
Re: Organic farming environmental disaster! 
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