Re: Commercial Chicken

J. S. (janebug@hotmail.com)
Fri, 12 Nov 1999 13:12:42 PST

Along this line---I know some people who are helping with a hulless barley
feed study for poultry and the stories they could tell you about the lack of
decent treatment of the birds that goes on would turn your stomach. A man
who just slits their throats part way and doesn't use the stungun b/c it
doesn't work right and shocks him is just the mildest.

>
>Not to fan the fire, but no-one has mentioned the way commercial chickens
>are handled. I
>must offer my caveat that this is not my area of expertise, but the word on
>MY street is
>that the chicken can still be processed as long as there are no more than 3
>open sores on
>its body. I'm sure there's more such stories.
>
>Kirsten
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