The Efficient Chicken

Austrians love chicken. Chicken and eggs are on the menu almost every day. Whilst consumption of pork and beef is stagnating, consumption of chicken is increasing sharply.  Every Austrian currently eats up to 15 kg of it per year. And industrial agriculture is at last reacting to this boom. Modern and efficient rearing systems guarantee rapid growth, above all of breast meat. An industrial chicken can now lay well over 300 eggs per year.  But there is one group that loses out in all this: the chickens themselves.