Dive Summary:
- Thanks to recent "ag-gag" legislation, it is illegal to videotape a factory farm without direct consent of the farmer, making it very difficult to see the condition of the 9 billion chickens the U.S. produces annually.
- It has been almost a decade since video of these factory farms has surfaced, but in a new expose being released soon, the poultry industry is in for a rough ride.
- Poor conditions, sick chicken and genetic paradoxes are among the many claims against the industry, as opponents attack one of the biggest and most popular consumer foods in the world.
From the article:
Most photos and video from factory farms come from undercover investigators who manage to get hired to work within the farm and then secretly gather images for an external organization. This is next to impossible in a broiler factory farm. There is hardly a ‘job’ involved in raising broilers in factory farms anymore. Often there are only one or two people, usually the farm owners, overseeing multiple houses, each house filled with tens of thousands of birds.
