ABUSING CHICKENS WE EAT

This is one of the most powerful chicken farm corporations.

     Perdue is an agribusiness in Salisburg, Maryland. With annual sales of over $6 billion this company stands at the 3rd largest chicken producer in the U.S. This company produces 59,320,000 pounds of ready to cook chicken. In the article Abusing Chickens We Eat, by Nicholas Kristof, published by the New York Times he author states that aperture is abusing the chickens, and it is also using fake advertising to sell their products.

     Through out the article the author used many examples to support his argument. One example was how he explIn why companies lie in their labels. For example the labels always show beutiful chicken shower in real life these chickens are nothing like the ones in the label.
In the movie Food Inc. they interviewed many farmers however only one was willing to show how the chickens actually grow. Chickens are being genetically inhance to grow larger chest, grow bigger and grow faster.

This is how chickens look in chicken farms.

     In the 1900's a book named The Jungle by Upton Siclair, a novel about the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the U.S. Sinclair spent 7 weeks working undercover in a meat plant to see how the daily days of workers where. President Theodore Roosevelt read this book and choose to take actions about it. He sent investigators to these slaughter houses to and when the report came back it said the same things like Sinclair. The Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906.
    

 By reading the article titled, "Abusing Chickens We Eat" by Nicholas Kristof, it opened my eyes to the reality or food corporations and how they treat their products and employees. In reality, it's not only chickens being abused it's also other animals like cattle. Also, many of the "farmers" say its not really farming anymore. It's just mass production. I learned that the corporations make the farmers upgrade their chicken stockyards all the time making the farmers go into debt. And if the farmers wouldn't upgrade, they would run the enormous risk of losing their contract with the corporation. By learning all this new information on food corporations, I have decided I would cut down on my meat and poultry consumption.