Chicken feed is specially formulated to encourage weight gain. The industry has even developed ways to recycle the chickens' own wastes back into the diet. The hen house is hosed down in preparation for the next unfortunate batch of birds. Fear of unemployment and poverty keeps them at their gruesome task. They could not be more wrong.
Eggs are also hazardous to health.
Eating chicken is no more healthy or humane than eating other kinds of meat, and eggs are no safer to eat now than they were before we revised their cholesterol level. These foods are hazardous to your health, and there are several good substitutes for them. Try tofu scrambler instead of tired old scrambled eggs, egg replacer in your baked goods, and marinated tofu at your next barbecue, and put the chicken torture chambers out of business. Perhaps the only way to be sure a chicken dinner won't poison you or your family is to throw it away. Robbins, op.cit., p. 67.