Abusing Chickens We Eat

All over America their are multiple factories that are processing chicken meat. One we'll know farm is located in Salisbury, Maryland called Perdue, where they process chicken and annually sells $6 billion worth of chickens. This company was founded during 1920s where a married couple who has been keeping flocks of chicken. Later  they started selling eggs around 1925 and decided to start selling chicks to farmers rather than eggs for humans to consume.  Untill now, Perdue is one of the third-largest American producers of broilers where they roughly produce 59,320,000 pounds of broilers that are ready to cook.

"Cage Free Chickens"

The article Abusing Chickens We Eat by author, Nicholas Kristof from The New York Times argues that chicken that are being sold in stores are mistreated where chickens are supposedly raised caged free and sometimes humanely raised, but is this true? Kristof Farmer Craig Watts have  raised a total of 720,000 chickens are per year for Perdue, where he watched a video of how Perdue chickens were raised, these chickens have lost their feathers, also have raw, angry, red flesh. 

"U.S.D.A. Is the accomplice of Perdue in the fooling of consumers. " This quote is significant due to the fact that the USDA is a major agency that inspects our food to ensure the safety of the American public, but in this article the USDA failed to do their job by ensuring that these chickens are raised "cage free" where egg-laying chickens are caged. Lastly, these chickens are crammed tightly in barns where each of these chickens get two-thirds of a square foot. 

In my opinion after reading this article, I believe that the author's argument will change my behavior when it come to buying chickens in the market. One way I can do this is by checking whether the chickens are raised caged free.  

Free Range Chicken