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Probably could emit less by using grubs and other more natural feed than the usual (grain).

Used to fertilise fields with human 💩 in the past.

It feels as if I'm being scolded by some rich oligarch for not caring about the enviroment because I forget to place my empty glass bottle into the recycling bin as they fly around the world in their private jet. Because, you know, those two things are comparable in the stress they cause the planet.

Are organic chickens better or worse for the environment than AI data centres? Or does your partnership with OpenAI preclude you from making the comparison?

The chickens are kind of very important here. Have you ever seen rescue hens from cage farms?

And as you read on (which many do not!) It states analysis based on old data and that methods have changed. Very poor reporting, please do better.

Now do data centres.

Quick question. What the actual fuck is the point of this article? Animal cruelty is better for the environment? Is that why we're happy to let billionaires do what they want?

Have you lost your minds, The Guardian? The author of this “article” would also have a smaller carbon footprint if they were behind bars … just saying!

It's not about that - it's about cruel practices.

Wait till you find out about cattle farming, cars and the military…

This will not escape the attention of those paid to view CO2 as a food group

I guess we'll have to keep torturing the chickens then? Seriously, what the fuck?

Since I eat an egg for breakfast every morning, I want one that had a rather pleasant normal life vs suffering in a cage. A karma thing.

Humans have worse impact on climate than organic eggs

Perhaps you’ve heard of the millions of eggs currently recalled in the U.S. Guess where those came from.

This seems to be industrial chicken factory bullshit. It does not consider all cumulative cradle to grave effects.

That's interesting. What country is this relevant to? I'm in Australia and I've always avoided organic eggs unless they specifically state free range.

Obviously take YouTube videos with a pince of salt but this lot seem give good and accurate advice as far as I can tell. Here's the soils association standards for organic eggs. www.soilassociation.org/what-we-do/c...

Yeh this article is insane

Is this text written by a cage?

Cage the billionaires and free the chickens. Much better for the planet.

@theguardian.com @environment.theguardian.com Why have you published this flawed study and presented it to us as something useful to know?

Bad headline.

Let's put the chickens back in the cages to offset the data centres then. It's important to get the priorities right.

Just stop eating chicken. Not worth it.

"However, the study used data from 2009-2010, which the researchers acknowledged as a limitation as it did not capture more recent developments in egg production. The research also did not take into account other environmental impacts such as pesticides or biodiversity."

Stop using fossil fuels then, if there is suddenly so much concern for the climate change the media has spent decades questioning and downplaying. Switch to solar and wind before you decide inhuman cruelty is an answer.

Does that include the slurry by product that poisons our rivers

What about no eggs at all. Much better for the environment,your health and so much better for these sentient animals. #veganfortheanimals

Cherry picked data. No empathy. Inhumane conclusion. I'm guessing AI?

click bait for the agro industry? shameful title @theguardian.com, the article is more nuanced than this.

Oh, how do they compare to power plants? No one serious cares about this FUD shit.

guardian completely loses the plot and advocates for animal cruelty based on a single metric....

Do you even know the percentage of flooded rabbit holes?

Roflmao Who would have thunk it?

The levels of cruelty that exist in battery farming is disgraceful, and trying to push this as "better for the environment" is entirely disingenuous. You're basically saying "free range hens have too much freedom!"... I'm surprised you didn't call the hens "woke"

yeah and eating raw chicken is better for the environment than cooking it, what a stupid article

Ok so a paper lead by someone who has a bias towards factory farming, that doesn't give the complete picture, that only works if you care about producing the same amount of eggs (which we don't need anyway) said organic farming was worse. And people wonder why misinformation spreads so easily.

Duh

not shocked

Organic and free range are two entirely orthogonal axes. And eggs come from hens rather than chickens. Did an AI write this or one of your chinless nepo tween interns?

I know who wrote this

Why only “organic” free range? What about just free range?

We need fewer humans on the planet not fewer chickens.

"... birds living in cages tend to be more efficient." What a multitude of evils are glossed over by that one word: efficient. The wrong conclusion is being implied in this article. It's not one or the other, it's neither. Why choose the lesser of two evils when you can choose none at all?

I don't think chickens are the main or even a considerable cause here.

I suppose a bird flu pandemic from overcrowded, sick birds would cut down on the emissions problem if we're all too sick to move 👍

The complete destruction of The Guardian and its partner OpenAI would be very beneficial to the environment

This is some sick work trying to justify inhumane treatment of animals @theguardian.com Why am I donating for this immoral insertion order?

How about the damage the catastrophic illegal war in Iran is doing? How about those massive data centres? Come on! Chickens are chicken feed compared to those. You're really scraping the barrel with this reporting.

stahp. organic eggs ain’t gonna stoppa the time

It didn't seem to account anything for the size of an egg. If a free range egg is twice as heavy as a cruel egg, then this means nothing. Eggs aren't eggs.

Did a billionaire buy the Guardian? I’m asking because why is this a priority piece of news.

Out of interest, how do their emissions compare to those of the AI company you folks joined at the hip with?

I think the world is getting to the stage of “you can have air, or water, or food, but not all 3”

Who funded the research??? It appears to be very selective and unscientific use of data.

Wait till you hear about AI

Also I may be a tad bias here (if the goose icon doesn't give it away that like farm birds) but I think having 1 thing that's not perfectly great for the environment is worth it if it means less chicken torture. Until we can lab grow eggs this is the only really somewhat ethical way to farm them.

Wait until you hear about OpenAI. You've really stunted you credibility on issues of climate change with that partnership.

The data is from 2010.

I imagine this is based on the same number of 'free range' chickens as the ones in poultry concentration camps. The density of chicken population uncaged is unlikely to be the same as incubator bred factory population so let's start again with the truth.

Chicken shit headline, Chicken shit study using old data ‘efficiency vs welfare’ hardly discussed - Chicken shit article.

Poor article, uses data from 2009 for the study and doesn't examine other benefits of free range chickens deeply.

Was this written by the fossil fuel lobby?