Chicken and salmon farming both have considerable environmental impacts when compared to more sustainable plant based practices of agriculture. Studies show that chicken farming is more efficient when compared to salmon farming and also cod fishing with a trawler. This likely relates to the fact that chickens are easy to feed and house and grow quickly. Salmon is more intensive as a method of farming, particularly as salmon farming requires a high use of chemicals in order to prevent the fish becoming ill. Cod fishing is also energy intensive because of the requirement to use a trawler, which necessitates the use of expensive equipment. Another factor is the huge area required for fishing compared to the small area required for growing chickens. However, compared to plants, all animal protein is significantly more costly in terms of time, energy and resources, with planting, harvesting and storing taking up most of the energy needs.
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