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Free-range certifiedorganic: Chickens are scavengers and omnivorces, and they need protein inaddition to plant foods to be healthy. Free-range certified organic poultrymostly feed on bugs, grubs, worms and grasses. Farmers raise hens in astress-free environment, in the most traditional and old-fashioned way. Eatingorganic free-range chickens is highly recommended by the USDA because these chickensare raised in a chemical-free environment, void of any drugs or growth-enhancerhormones. These chickens are not housed in close quarters so disease is lesslikely. Reducing antibiotic use lessens antibiotic resistance and reduces thelikelihood that super strains of bacteria resistant to human drugs will develop.

Conventional: Conventional poultry are fed conventionalfood, usually grain, as carbohydrates, which are just as effective at fatteninganimals as humans. Conventional poultry farms housethousands of chickens very close together, so disease can spread quickly.Farmers give each animal antibiotics to prevent them from getting sick. Chickenfeed on these farms have been known to contain 11 different antibioticsincluding Bacitracin, methylene, disalicylate, bacitracin zinc,chlortetracycline, erythromycin, hygromycin, neomycin, novobiacin,oxytetracycline, and penicillin. Increased use of antibiotics on farm animalscan lead to antibiotic-resistant strains of bacteria that can be passed tohumans.

Chickens emit no methane and emit less phosphate and carbondioxide than other meat-producing animals. If carefully managed, poultry litter(manure) can also be processed for commercial fertilizer. Opponents ofconventional poultry farming argue that it harms the environment and creates healthrisks, as well as abuses the animals themselves. Advocates of conventioanl farmingsay that their highly efficient systems save land and food resources due toincreased productivity, stating that the animals are looked after instate-of-the-art environmentally controlled facilities. Recentresearchsuggests,contrary to widespread belief, that conventional poultry production may have alesser impact on the environment and global warming than free-range organicproduction. Choosing organicpoultry that has been trucked across the country may have more of an adverseenvironmental impact in terms of transport pollution than selecting aconventionally raised local chicken.

http://gardenpool.org/facts/poultry-farming