Importance of chickens for the future of the earth and the economy of world
How many chickens are available on the Earth? This question may seem trivial, but there are a lot of their wastes left for the future of the planet and its economy, especially for this number of chickens.
If future generations or, aliens from next 5,000 years on, decide to dig in search of relics of humanity’s past, the chicken bones that will be found are amazing signs of the changes that the Newago might have.
This result has documented the start of a new geological era, the Anthropocene, and is defined in relation to the human impact on the planet, which during the last century has been rapid and fundamental changes in its natural systems.
Another symbol of this dichotomy is seemingly a surprising effects, including increases in carbon dioxide or methane, radioactive fallout from nuclear testing, ubiquitous microplastics everywhere, and the evolution of invasive species.
However, chicken bones are one of the most telling indicators of human impact on the planet.
First of all, it was humans who started eating chicken. “Modern chicken meat is unrecognizable compared to the meat of its ancestors or wild counterparts,” says geologist Karis Bennett, who conducted a study focusing on the following issue.
He added: Body size, skeletal shape and chemical composition of bones are different between modern and ancient chickens.
In other words, today’s chickens are proof of human’s ability to change nature.
The origin of this chicken goes back to the forests of Southeast Asia, where the wild rooster (Gallus Gallus) became a domestic animal about eight thousand years ago.
Meat and eggs have long been popular, but it didn’t begin to rapidly become a standard item in stores around the world until after World War II.
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations says the world has about 33 billion chickens, while the biomass of non-wild chickens is three times greater than that of all wild bird species.
At least 25 million chickens are slaughtered every day to turn their meat into chicken TIKAYA in Punjab, YAKITORY in Japan, YASA in Senegal or nuggets in KFC restaurants, McDonald’s and other foodstuff around the world.
Hama News Agency
Translated by: M.Yassen Salahi
