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...little excited. The prospect of seeing what really happens to chickens when they get their heads cut off--do they continue to run around?--had gotten my adrenaline flowing. No touchyfeely vegetarian am I, and I was proving it by volunteering to go and document this early morning fowl massacre...
PIGEON: Excretorily expressive fowl...
Before students get hungry and demoralized from too much fowl and salad, the dining service should get back on track. Or else we will be forced...
...from 28 lbs. in 1960. Health is not the only reason -- consumers also know a bargain. At an average 88 cents per lb. for a whole broiler, chicken costs 50% less than it did three decades ago, after adjustment for inflation. One reason for the low prices is that fowl production is concentrated in poor rural areas of the South...
...malodorous enough to bring a visitor close to vomiting. Employees are sometimes splashed with feces, blood, guts or chicken fat. Even more odious is the industry's rising injury rate. Labor Department statistics show that 27% of poultry workers suffer on-the-job injuries and illnesses each year, making fowl processing one of the nation's most hazardous jobs. In terms of repetitive-motion disorders, poultry work is exceeded only by meat packing. In a study by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1 in 3 chicken workers was found to have a work-related muscular-skeletal disorder...