Of the 1 billion chickens raised in the UK each year, 95% are factory farmed. Chicken is the country’s most popular meat and these massive sheds are why it’s so cheap, but what are the real costs, asks Alison Caffyn
shed” up close I was taken aback by just how massive it was – the huge industrial-looking metal clad building was well over 100 metres long by 25 metres wide. And there wasn’t just one, there were seven of these colossal sheds, the sun glinting off their roofs and adjacent clusters of tall silos. A constant hum emanated from them and periodically a strange clattering sound, possibly of grain being sprayed automatically from a silo into a shed.
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