DO WE REALLY WANT TO LIVE LONGER ? OR--- ( WHEN CHICKENS WILL RULE THE WORLD ! )

     Hey , all you who are animal activists , environmentalists or socially concious individuals . While I am appalled by the conditions animals suffer in factory farms and am uneasy about all the chemicals injected into these animals and sprayed on our veggies and fruit I will be forced to embrace these realities soon enough and so to shall you!! These practises will not fade away into the good night as you would naively wish but will , on the contrary , thrive and increase exponentially . Gone are the days of Connie the cow and Charlie the chicken romping playfully over green breezey pastures that stretch to the horizon . The causes for which you have so bravely and vigorously fought will be crushed under the weight of cruel reality ! WHY YOU ASK ???

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     First , a few sobering statistics for you to consider :
    The current world population is 6.87 billion !
    Births per year are 140 million .
    Deaths per year are 57million .
    We added 1 billion people between 1987 and 1999 .
    The united states will have 439 million people by 2050 .
    
    As if this were'nt scary enough , consider the average life expectancy upon which these population increases are based . Currently the birth rate is about 1.1 per cent and the world average life expectancy is 67.2 years . We would need 70% more food just to feed these people !!But if geneticists have their way ( and there is no reason to think they won't ) we may see people living to the age of 120 years or even up to 150 years !!!  
    Unless we have legislated contraception or forced sterilization we will eat our way out of house and home over the next 40 years ! And since this is an unlikely scenario we are left with the need for massive increases in food production .

     AND WHERE IS ALL OF THIS BOUNTY COMING FROM?????
   
   Why by increasing  factory farms aquaculture of fish and genetically engineered food ( frankenfood ) . We continue to use antibiotics and growth hormones for chickens , etc . pesticides and new generation fertilizers . The very practises you detest !!
   I am sure animal activists and environmentalists will see the irony here !! The practises they hate most will not only be necessary but absolutely critical to our survival . They will be forced to embrace that which they hate the most !!!
   
   Or open the doors to the factory farms and set the millions of  chickens free !! Maybe then the chickens will rule the world !! Oh well ---- they probably won't make any worse a mess of it then we have !!!