Industrially Raised Instant Chicken is Bad for the Human Health

In recent years, with the popularity of foreign fast food such as KFC and McDonald's and the rise of the local fast food and takeaway industry, the consumption of instant chicken chicken meat has been climbing higher year after year. When it comes to instant chicken, people immediately think of industrial breeding, unhealthy nature, antibiotic and hormone abuse, and danger to human health ......

　　So is it really that terrible to have an industrially raised instant chicken? The following, I'll come to the science of fast-growing chickens.

Why do "instant chickens" grow at such an alarming rate?

Instant chickens are actually broilers, also known as "fast and large chickens". It is a breed imported from Europe and the USA and grows much faster than local chickens in China, not because of hormones, but because of modern genetic breeding techniques, modern feed and nutrition techniques and advanced management techniques.

Modern chicken farming was born in Germany in the 1950s and over the decades, genetic breeding techniques have continued to develop and breeds have been optimised and improved, reducing the cage time for broilers from over 60 days to just over 30 days. From the chick to the farrower, there are different nutritional requirements at different stages of growth and development.

Unlike the traditional method of feeding a handful of rice to the end, modern large-scale farming will scientifically match corn, flour, wheat, soybean meal, fats, vitamins, amino acids, minerals and other raw materials to the characteristics and nutritional needs of the chickens at each stage of growth, thus providing the necessary conditions for healthy and rapid growth of broilers.

After about 40 days of feeding, body weight can generally reach 2-2.5 kg. By this time, the feed utilisation conversion rate is maximised and the fat in the chicken is evenly distributed, splitting out the legs, wings and breasts to the right size. If you continue to keep them, they can grow bigger but they grow more slowly and are very uneconomical for farmers, so this is the best time to slaughter them.

　　Modern large-scale farms provide a fully enclosed environment where temperature, humidity and negative pressure can be automatically controlled. They also establish procedures for lighting, feeding, water supply and ventilation that conform to the laws of broiler growth, providing a stable, suitable environment for broiler growth and ensuring rapid, and precise, day-to-day growth.