An article in the now discontinued Gourmet
magazine says the National Chicken Council admits that 10 percent of chickens by the time they are hung
from shackles at the slaughterhouse have had a wing dislocated, fractured, or
broken from rough handling. It also admits that 2 percent of the birds are
awake as the blade cuts their throat or boiled alive because they miss the
stunner that is supposed to spare them.
Richard L. Lobb, a spokesman for the Council said of the estimated 180
million a year who perish this way, "This process is over in a matter of
minutes if not in seconds," in Gourmet.
Both arsenic in birds and bird feed and the deaths described
in Gourmet magazine stem from the cult
of cheap food perpetrated by US factory farms. It is a cult food consumers are
increasingly rejecting.
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