On the program last night it stated that there would never be enough land for free range products to becomes as big an enterprise as battery is ..and with that in mind and if this is true then they will never be able to supply enough in the first place as demand will outstrip supply ..and once all this hype has died down everyone will soon return to the battery products again ..
I would disagree, there is plenty of land to raise chickens. If you look at the land currently left empty at struggling/closed farms this is achievable. Although the population has increased and so has the housing land footprint (which for the England is 10%), chickens used to be raised without intensive farming and they found the space. If you took the area taken by battery farms currently, I would suggest that there is easily 20 times this space available to re-allocate to chicken farming. How often do you see a chicken farm, there not on every corner.
My cousin works for the ministry of agriculture in Holland and the rules for farming chickens are much stricter than here and although they are one of the most populated countries in Europe they don't struggle to find the space.
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