Inform: Chickens

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Chickens in farms only get about 2/3 of a sq. ft. of space

Perdue is a major chicken processing company in Salisbury, Maryland. Their annual sales in chicken are in excess of $6 billion. Perdue Processing Company was founded in 1920 by Athur Perdue and his wife Pearl Perdue. They began by just selling chicken eggs but in 1925, they began to sell raised chickens. In 1939, their son, Frank Perdue, dropped out of college to join the family business.

In the opinionated article titled, Abusing Chickens We Eat, by Nicholas Kristof, informs many others how several people were concerned about the animal welfare and food safety. Although people were concerned, the company manipulated the public. Nicholas Kristof argued that it was very inhumane to how the chickens were being raised.

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Difference between chickens from 1950 and 2008.
Chickens now are mutated to increase muscle growth.

The Perdue Chicken Company would manipulate the public by advertising on their products that birds on the farms were cage-free. But, many consumers have figured out that each bird within the farms only obtained 2/3 of a square foot of space. Also, these chicken's farms were never cleaned so all of the chickens would walk all over the remains of the birds and resulted to chickens being featherless on the bottom of their body.

Another false advertisement within the he text is when the company's chairman, Jim Perdue, says "Doing the right thing is things like treating your chickens humanely." Although the chairman may have said this, the company does not follow what he has said.

In my own opinion, I strongly believe that the company is treating their animals very inhumanely and do not keep them in sanitary conditions. I also believe if the company continues to do as such, they may lose multiple consumers.

In 1906, living and working conditions were said to be "disgusting." Many people would throw their trash away on the streets and would technically use the streets as a bathroom. Within meat factories, many of the meats were processed in very unsanitary conditions. The meats were not refrigerated and during closing hours, rodents would eat, walk over the meats, and leave their remains on the meats. The factories would take the pork that had poisons within them would be made into sausages. They also gather rejected meats from other countries and would process and can them.

That same year, President Theadore Roosevelt passed the Federal Meat Inspection Act. This law prevented factories from adulterating and misbranding their meats. This meaning that the different types of meats cannot be combined. This ensured that meats and products were slaughtered and processed under sanitary conditions.