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Most shocking is that the bellies of nearly all the chickens have lost their feathers and are raw, angry, red flesh. The entire underside of almost every chicken is a huge, continuous bedsore. As a farmboy who raised small flocks of chickens and geese, I never saw anything like that.
One reason seems to be modern breeding: Chickens are now bred to have huge breasts, and they often end up too heavy for their legs. Poultry Science journal has calculated that if humans grew at the same rate as modern chickens, a human would weigh 660 pounds by the age of eight weeks.
These chickens don’t run around or roost as birds normally do. They stagger a few steps, often on misshapen legs, and then collapse onto the excrement of tens of thousands of previous birds. It is laden with stinging ammonia that seems to eat away at feathers and skin.
I called Perdue to see what the company had to say. Jim Perdue declined to comment, but a company spokeswoman, Julie DeYoung, agreed that undersides of chickens shouldn’t be weeping red. She suggested that the operator was probably mismanaging the chicken house.
That doesn’t go over well with Watts, whose family has owned the farm since the 1700s and says he has been raising chickens for Perdue since 1992, meticulously following its requirements.
One reason seems to be modern breeding: Chickens are now bred to have huge breasts, and they often end up too heavy for their legs. Poultry Science journal has calculated that if humans grew at the same rate as modern chickens, a human would weigh 660 pounds by the age of eight weeks.
These chickens don’t run around or roost as birds normally do. They stagger a few steps, often on misshapen legs, and then collapse onto the excrement of tens of thousands of previous birds. It is laden with stinging ammonia that seems to eat away at feathers and skin.
I called Perdue to see what the company had to say. Jim Perdue declined to comment, but a company spokeswoman, Julie DeYoung, agreed that undersides of chickens shouldn’t be weeping red. She suggested that the operator was probably mismanaging the chicken house.
That doesn’t go over well with Watts, whose family has owned the farm since the 1700s and says he has been raising chickens for Perdue since 1992, meticulously following its requirements.
- With no evidence, not even a looksee or a peekaboo at the farm animals, and the Perdue lady's blaming the farmer right off the bat. And while I'm at it, have you ever noticed how when a corporation's shit has just hit the fan, they always send out women spokespersons to take the hit for them? Trying to use femininity to blunt the blow of their greed, avarice and incompetence.
Jim Perdue you're fucking coward and an animal abuser on a mass scale and you should be imprisoned but instead you'll probably get a raise......
The solution is so easy yet apparently so difficult as to be nearly impossible. 
I've been a vegan for going on 3 years. Believe me, nixing the meat eating was the easy part. 
My point is that eschewing meat is fairly easy and not the insurmountable ordeal and unreasonable sacrifice that most carnivores say it is.
Like many things, the hard part is deciding to do it and following through.
Most people don't really care enough to do that though.
