The Better Chicken Con

When “Welfare” Means More Dead Birds

In 2019, I briefly worked for The Humane League. Their flagship campaign at the time was the Better Chicken Commitment — a set of welfare pledges that many saw as a step forward. Replace fast-growing chicken breeds with slower-growing ones, they said. Give them more space, more time. Make the system “less cruel.”

I asked a simple question:

Wouldn't slower…