Section 8

Selective Breeding

 Selective breeding is the process of modifying the characteristics of living things, especially to enhance one or more desirable traits through reproduction controlled by humans. In the case of chickens, selective breeding has made chickens grow more than 4 times larger than they were in the 1950’s, a 400% growth rate (40). This causes them to a have lameness and be unable to walk and hold their weight. They grow twice as fast as biologically normal. Every year a half billion chickens succumb to early death. With selective breeding/insemination of the turkey, they are unable to perform natural habits because farmers have exploited their species to the point of no return.  Poultry farmer have engineered irreversible effects on nature (40).

 Is it a coincidence that people are physically unwell while simultaneously eating birds who have been bred so large that they can’t stand up?  Is it moral to breed a chicken for profit while it suffers from deformities, heart conditions, organ failure, and more? People do not know that the chicken they consume is from animals with deformities. At what point do we stop selective breeding- when the chickens grow to be waist-high? With the poor treatment of these sentient animals, usually packed inside of massive warehouses, it would be in the best interest of chickens and consumers to stop this process of selective breeding (41)

Section 8 Legislation

8.1 The intentional selective breeding of chickens or turkeys in any farming system within the United States shall be illegal under all circumstances.

8.2 Those found to be selective breeding chicken or turkeys purposefully, shall be subject to fine and or imprisonment.