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Chicken Cruelty

The average American eats more than 75lbs of chicken a year. But what most don't know is that this chicken comes at a high cost that is hidden from consumers. When we buy chicken from a store or restaurant its hard to remember that this meat comes from an animal. Most don't know how this meat is produced, we see the end product, cut and shrink wrapped or battered and deep fried.
You may have an idea of what a chicken looks like in your head from long ago where they are plucking, clucking, around in the grass. But for the vast majority of the 8 billion chickens consumed each year, their lives are far from this natural setting. Undercover investigations from two of the country's top chicken producers, Tyson and Purdue have revealed horrific detail on the lives of chickens they produce. The conditions of chicken life in these places is not uncommon, they are industry standard.
The life of a broiler chicken, a chicken raised and killed for meat, begins in......

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