One hundred sixty million each week—that’s the number of
chickens killed for food in the U.S.
John Oliver, host of Last
Week Tonight, recently highlighted the many cruel ways in which chicken
farming hurts chickens and drives small contract farmers into debt.
Rolling
Stone explains:
As they satiate America’s vast, gnawing chicken hunger, the
four big poultry companies use a system of contract farmers that leaves many of
those actually raising the chickens taking on debt and living below the poverty
line. …
… To make matters worse, [Oliver] reports that the big
poultry companies are known to retaliate against any farmers speaking out
against the practices.
You can watch the segment here:
Although conditions for farmers are far from fair, the
chickens raised on these farms pay the ultimate price with their lives.
On modern farms, chickens are denied nearly everything that
comes naturally to them, and are often kept in dark, windowless sheds with thousands
of other chickens, subjected to mutilations without painkillers and a merciless
slaughter.
Watch MFA’s recent undercover investigation from a factory
farm that supplies to Chick-Fil-A:
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