Factory chicken farmer blows whistle. Here is a great story about a little guy coming out and speaking about what the big guys are up to. Look at the horrible conditions in which our Purdue chickens are raised. They are shocking images of our (OUR) food and it is not hard to begin to understand why we are becoming more and more unhealthy in our lifetime. You may want to re-think your dinner after seeing this video.
After 22 years of raising factory chicken for Perdue, one brave factory farmer Craig Watts was at his breaking point and did something no one has done before. He invited us, as farm animal welfare advocates, to his farm to film and tell his story.
If you eat chicken, please watch this report from UK’s, The Guardian.
Two-thirds of fresh retail chicken in the UK is contaminated with campylobacter, a nasty bug that affects about 280,000 people a year.
Sickening chicken production is not just confined to the UK. Remember to buy organic.
Three of the UK’s leading supermarkets have launched emergency investigations into their chicken supplies after a Guardian investigation uncovered a catalogue of alleged hygiene failings in the poultry industry.
Undercover footage, photographic evidence and information from whistleblowers has revealed how strict industry hygiene standards to prevent the contamination of chicken with the potentially deadly campylobacter bug can be flouted on the factory floor and on farms.
As high as two out of every three chicken could be contaminated.
“Margins are low, so volumes have to be high and a few key players control the market.” Yet this drive for cheaper and cheaper meat has dangerous consequences. Undercover footage, photographic evidence and accounts from whistleblowers reveal a catalogue of hygiene failings in a poultry industry that supplies the likes of KFC, Tesco, Aldi, Asda, Marks & Spencer and Nando’s. Two-thirds of fresh retail chicken in the UK is contaminated with campylobacter, making more than 250,000 of us sick every year. Ron Spellman, Leader of The European Association of Meat Inspectors, is shocked by the incriminating evidence from one factory. “My god. It’s just unbelievable the amount of guts there are on the floor”.
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