Yeah, I'm not morally opposed to eating meat per se, but factory farming is something else entirely. I long for a world where cultured meat is cheaper than the real deal.
We're still at least 5 years away from cultured meat even being available in supermarkets, let alone competitive with factory farmed animal-based meat. I'm so happy to have gone vegan and I'm never looking back. The entire industry is horrifying.
How many chickens lived their lives in a cage smaller than themselves only to get ground together with their friends to make 33,000 lbs of dino nuggets? The meat industry and the way we care for livestock need a complete overhaul.
The meat is ground, then forced under high pressure through screens that reduce the meat, bones, and other parts into a paste. This paste is mixed with chicken skin and additives, including starch and sodium phosphate, and then shaped into nuggets.
That is a 3lb chicken. Cornish cross chickens (which is what they would be using for something like this)would be slaughtered at 9-10 weeks which would make them 10-14 lbs.
So using your ratios above, 1 chicken yields 4.5 lbs of cooked meat, which means 7,333.333333333333 chickens.
It’s substantial less chickens.
Although the amount of harvested meat would be higher because they grind everything into a paste as you noted.