What is the difference between organic chicken and intensively reared chicken?

Answer 1

Organic approaches to raising farm animals don't use resources that aren't available in the immediate area or that involve chemicals and synthetics. Intensive approaches do. As an example, intensive production of farm animals may rely on growth hormones. As another example, it also may involve genetically modified organisms. The GMO may be the food that the farm animal eats. Or it may be the animal itself. As still another example, intensive production may draw on resources that are made off site. The consequence is a lack of control over a product's make up, pricing and quality.

Answer 2

An intensively reared chicken is bred to reach slaughter weight in less than 6 weeks. About 70% of meat chickens are raised this way. These chickens are also known as commercial broilers.

Organic chicken is a free range chicken who is raised on the greens and insects he can gather from his pasture and is given nor raised on anything sprays, medications or hormones. This used to be called a barnyard or home flock chicken.

According to a study in the journal British Poultry Science, the commercial broilers had better texture, juiciness, flavor and testers preferred the way the meat looked.