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Chicken companies prevent chicken from sleeping to keep them eating around the clock (lemmy.nz)

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US chicken companies pioneered restricting sleep to keep birds eating around the clock.

A new study (Li et al., 2026) recommends giving chickens just 2 hours of darkness nightly to maximize the time they spend eating. The study and photo are Chinese.

We know chickens have far better hapiness with 7–8 hours of darkness to sleep.

But they eat more and grow faster when they are sleep deprived.

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[-] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 12 hours ago

Pretty sure they are asking about the concern of pesticides killing plants and animals to protect the food being grown, and where that fits into the vegan lifestyle.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 hours ago

No, there is an incredibly large cohort of meat eaters that come up with creative ways to justify their behavior to themselves. In this case the argument (which I’ve heard hundreds of times) is that if you eat so much more plant matter in order to meet your nutrition needs (i.e. a lot of beans and soy) you are going to eat way more peaticides simply because of the increased volume of consumption.

Such people have never thought even once about what food their meat eats.

[-] KatakiY@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Ya there's not really a good excuse that doesn't end with im lazy and like the taste. Maybe some dietary requirements or allergies that I'm not aware of I guess.

Its a hard switch but I really should get on it.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 hours ago

Despite what the internet militants tell you, it’s not all or nothing. If every person skipped meat just once a month the impact on global warming would be measurable.