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"After the birds' heads are pulled off and their feet removed, machines open them with a vertical incision and remove their guts. Contamination often occurs here, as the high-speed machines commonly rip open intestines, releasing feces into the birds' body cavities.
Once upon a time, US Department of Agriculture (Usda) inspectors had to condemn any bird with such fecal contamination. But about 30 years ago, the poultry industry convinced the Usda to reclassify feces so that it could continue to use these automatic eviscerators. Once a dangerous contaminant, feces are now classified as a "cosmetic blemish".
Journalist Scott Bronstein conducted interviews with nearly 100 Usda poultry inspectors from 37 plants. "Every week," he reports, "millions of chickens leaking yellow pus, stained by green feces, contaminated by harmful bacteria, or marred by lung and heart infections, cancerous tumours or skin conditions are shipped for sale to consumers."
Next, the chickens go to a massive refrigerated tank of water, where thousands of birds are communally cooled. The Government Accountability Project, a US whistleblower protection organisation, has said that the "water in these tanks has been aptly named 'fecal soup' for all the filth and bacteria floating around".
Air-chilling reduces the weight of a bird's carcass, but water-chilling causes a dead bird to soak up water (the "fecal soup"). One study has shown that simply placing the chicken carcasses in sealed plastic bags during the chilling stage would eliminate cross-contamination. But that would also eliminate an opportunity to turn waste-water into tens of millions of dollars' worth of additional weight in poultry products.
Each case of food-borne illness cannot be traced, but where we do know the original, or the "vehicle of transmission," it is, overwhelmingly, an animal product.
According to the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), poultry is by far the largest cause... 83 percent of all chicken meat (including organic and antibiotic-free brands) is infected with either campylobacter or salmonella at the time of purchase...
The next time a friend has... "the stomach flu" - ask a few questions... he or she was probably among the 76 million cases of food-borne illness the CDC estimates occur in America each year.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Eating Animals
Not really. But then again, I would probably find the production of bacon quite distasteful, but what food is better than bacon?
Sure, point out the worst case scenario as a scare tactic.
I love chicken, have probably eaten thousands of pounds in my lifetime. NEVER has I gotten sick from eaten the tasty bird...........you fail..........try a different scare technique!!!!!!!!!
NO.............I am not joining the Vegancult, no matter what!!!!!!
If you ever go into ANY kind of food processing facility, meat or vegetables, and you have a weak stomach? Well...you'll starve to death.
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