Oct 12, 2026 · 13 min · 6 segments
Dr. Sina McCullough and Farmer Joel Salatin examine a study suggesting that caged hens may have lower mortality and a smaller environmental footprint than free-range birds. From Episode #266: The War…
Joel SalatinHostSina McCulloughHostSo for the chickens, uh, you know, mortality, they just defined it as mortality, but that's gonna vary based on, like, the management practices, pasture, you know, rotation, uh, canopy cover.
But they use just aggregate data, and oftentimes that includes, like, poorly designed pasture-raised-
Where was it in here, Sena? Somewhere in here I saw they were using British, British, um, um, yeah, Royal Society.
Uh, study reported in Royal Society Open Science examined the environmental, uh, and mortality costs of housing trade-offs.
The, the requirements in Great Britain for pastured poultry are, are ridiculous because here, here's the problem.
Well, and here in the US, animal welfare stuff, animal welfare requirements are all assuming a stationary house with a yard.
So for the chickens, uh, you know, mortality, they just defined it as mortality, but that's gonna vary based on, like, the management practices, pasture, you know, rotation, uh, canopy cover.
But they use just aggregate data, and oftentimes that includes, like, poorly designed pasture-raised-
Where was it in here, Sena? Somewhere in here I saw they were using British, British, um, um, yeah, Royal Society.
Uh, study reported in Royal Society Open Science examined the environmental, uh, and mortality costs of housing trade-offs.
The, the requirements in Great Britain for pastured poultry are, are ridiculous because here, here's the problem.
Well, and here in the US, animal welfare stuff, animal welfare requirements are all assuming a stationary house with a yard.
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