Factory Farming of Chickens in India

India is rapidly embracing Western methods of industrial animal agriculture. To date it has the world's largest dairy herd, is the world's third largest producer of eggs, and is the sixth largest producer of poultry meat. The expansion of India's animal products sector is already having global impacts, including on the crucial challenge of climate change. Vast amounts of carbon dioxide are released into the atmosphere when land is cleared to grow feed crops, on which fossil-fuel based fertilizers and pesticides are used. The animals themselves are large emitters of greenhouse gases, and India's cattle herd is the largest global livestock source of methane; a greenhouse gas 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. As India produces more and more animal products, the long term viability of such actions is an open question, particularly as climate change gathers pace.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• factory farming
• India
• animal agriculture
• poultry
• chickens
• Brighter Green
• water
• pollution
• climate change
• greenhouse gases
• sustainability
• vegetarianism
• vegan
• animal rights

[manish202]

Really great work by you. Keep it up, Sangu.

I appreciate your efforts for this study in India.

Wish, you will come out with similar studies on dairy animals too.

Best wishes.

[BrighterGreenNY]

@manish202 Hi there, happy New Year and thanks for this comment. As it happens, we have produced two new videos in 2011, also narrated by Sangu Iyer, on India's dairy and beef industries and global climate change. You can view them on the Brighter Green You Tube channel: Brighter Green NY.

[VEVOTHAMIZH]

@aks0206 I strongly agree with you too...BUT you have to not that It is the same (even worse) in the USA too and there is PETA condemning it(please google it). THOUGH this video seems like it is made by an anti Indian or India jealous person, we have to open our eyes to this growing disaster... There was no battery cage broiler variety farming in India 20 years before. The westerners introduced (pressured/bribed our nethas) and now they call India brutal!

I HIGHLY OPPOSE THE USE OF CHILD LABOUR!

[eco1vegan]

Great work, thanks a ton for making this, we really need this to go to as many people/policymakers/ activists as possible!

Best,

Sowmya

[JustinTvOwning]

Them lines are slow lol where I work there fast as hell

[Laxminarayana70]

A good vedio. But for the green house gases released and many likewise problems of such situations, more and more tree plantation is the right and only solution. But nobody tells and pushes the people to do that. Even around these poultry farms also thousands of saplings can be planted to reduce the ill effect of green house gases.

[maxwelldash]

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[TheGreenfrog140]

how can chicken waste produce? I am planning on owning a chicken poultry.. i wonder what i can do with chicken feces to make money?

[drahm33]

When I slaughter 1 chicken I use 10-20x the water that plant uses. Manure is valuable and fertilizer is costly, grain farms would pay for it! This video is unfair!

[aks0206]

seems like.. u don't like India to be self reliant in meeting its meat demand...do u want India to be an importer of western meat? greenhouse gases are emitted no matter where the chickens are grown....be it India or some country else...