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Tyson Foods Under Fire As Second Video Shows Chicken Abuse
Tyson Foods is under fire again after a new undercover video depicts inhumane abuse at a chicken facility in Texas. The Animal Legal Defense Fund, an animal rights group, went under cover for 21 days to document the cruelty. “The chickens were brought in on a conveyor belt that were covered in dirt and feces. The conditions in the live hang are filthy and horrendous for both the people and the animals. When the conveyor belt turned on...
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I was walking through the grocer just the other day, looking at the price of meat. There was a special on legs and thighs - around $4 for 12.
That's 6 chickens worth of legs for $4 - all hatched, housed, fed, slaughtered, plucked, processed, irradiated, packaged, frozen, shipped thousands of miles, shelved... for $4.
Frankly, it's amazing. It doesn't justify the conditions whatsoever... that's not what I'm saying at all. It's just... amazing.
Consumer expectations are driving these conditions.
Meanwhile I'm living on a meager country homestead, trying to teach myself what it really takes to sustain a single human life. It is mind-bogglingly energy and resource intensive. It's really unbelievable. Our ancestors were impressive specimens.
And my research indicates that the most humane way of slaughtering a chicken is bleeding it out by slitting its throat.
Sustaining human life is difficult enough, and cruel enough, as-is.. without adding negligent cruelty into the equation.
It costs $15 to grow a chicken humanely... so to see any profit, one would have to sell for $20.