Poultry farmers injecting chicks with hormones?

Question

what do you think about intensive agriculture poultry farmers injecting chicks with hormones to make them grow faster and be ready for market sooner? please write your opinion.

Answer 1

I don't think they do in the U.S., but injecting anything with hormones to make it grow faster just to get more meat from them is disturbingly wrong and unnatural.

Answer 2

The breed that is most commonly sold commercially in supermarkets is the cornish rock. It has been bred to get very large very quickly (in some cases going from chick to supermarket in 8 weeks. The only physical problem w/them is that if you were to try to let them live long, they would have leg problems from supporting so much breast meat. They aren't injected because there is no need.

Answer 3

The laws in the US do not permit that. They have very strict guidelines. They might feed them meat by products that make them grow. Cows might be what you are thinking about.