Tópico: As vantagens da carne de galinha em relação à de boi ou porco

[Fernando Silva]

As galinhas, pelo menos nos EUA, levam vantagem sobre bois e porcos:

-Sua carne é mais saudável
-A porcentagem de carne aproveitável em relação ao peso total do animal é maior
-A eficiência na conversão de ração em carne é maior
-O crescimento é mais rápido e a galinha está pronta para o abate mais cedo

How Chicken Beat Beef in America

It was deemed the healthier alternative, and it was undoubtedly cheaper

By Vaclav Smil

During the 1930s, the average feeding efficiency for broilers (at about 5 units of feed per unit of live weight) was no better than for pigs. That rate was halved by the mid-1980s, and the latest U.S. Department of Agriculture’s feed-to-meat ratios show that it now takes only about 1.7 units of feed (standardized in terms of feed corn) to produce a unit of broiler live weight, compared with nearly 5 units of feed for hogs and almost 12 units for cattle.



Because edible weight as a share of live weight differs substantially among the leading meat species (about 60 percent for chicken, 53 percent for pork, and only about 40 percent for beef), recalculations in terms of feeding efficiencies per unit of edible meat are even more revealing. Recent ratios have been 3 to 4 units of feed per unit of edible meat for broilers, 9 to 10 for pork, and 20 to 30 for beef. These ratios correspond to average feed-to-meat conversion efficiencies of, respectively, 15, 10, and 4 percent.

In addition, broilers have been bred to mature faster and to put on an unprecedented amount of weight. Traditional free-running birds were slaughtered at the age of one year, when they weighed only about 1 kg. The average weight of American broilers rose from 1.1 kg in 1925 to nearly 2.7 kg in 2018, while the typical feeding span was cut from 112 days in 1925 to just 47 days in 2018.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/biomedical/ethics/how-chicken-beat-beef-in-america