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- Efficiency from optimized breeding, controlled environments and scale creates a uniform, lower-cost chicken because those practices reduce variation and unit costs, producing a predictable product that consumers perceive as good value.
Efficiency from optimized breeding, controlled environments and scale creates a uniform, lower-cost chicken because those practices reduce variation and unit costs, producing a predictable product that consumers perceive as good value.
- Because intensive rearing produces chickens much more cheaply than free‑range or organic methods, widespread consumer price sensitivity keeps demand high for the cheaper product and incentivizes producers to remain intensive.
Because intensive rearing produces chickens much more cheaply than free‑range or organic methods, widespread consumer price sensitivity keeps demand high for the cheaper product and incentivizes producers to remain intensive.
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