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Why chicken farms’ reliance on cheap imported soya bean is risky business | Letter

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Why chicken farms’ reliance on cheap imported soya bean is risky business | Letter
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Ruth Tanner sets out the wider environmental and economic ramifications of factory-farmed poultry in response to a letter on chicken feedProf Julian Wiseman’s letter (14 April) makes important distinctions on the diet of poultry, but misses our point. My claim was never that chickens cannot physically eat other things, but that the factory-farming business model cannot function without cheap imported soya. Modern, fast-growing broilers – the Ross 308 or Cobb 500 being the dominant commercial exa

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