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Chapter 6.4 Chickens
The Most Numerous Bird in the World People have made the chicken the most numerous bird in the world - for cheap human food (see the table below: Chicken Numbers Worldwide). The treatment of chickens is a staggering moral issue, a relative microcosm of inhumanity to animals, flying in the face of the Five Freedoms of Animal Welfare (see Chapter 6). A precise count of the number of chickens and eggs worldwide is impossible. Therefore figures on this page are rounded to avoid spurious accuracy and totals do not add up precisely. Furthermore, chicken and egg numbers generally increase annually and therefore these figures are minimum figures. However, they give an idea of the vast numbers of farmed chickens.
Types of Chicken Almost all chickens in the world are factory farmed. The four categories of factory farmed chicken are:
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