America's Food Supply

     Perdue is the 3rd largest chicken processing company based in Salisbury, Maryland, and United States, with annual sales of 6 billion. The company stated that they treated their chickens humanly when it was far from the truth. In the article Abusing Chickens We Eat by Nicholas Kristof published by The New York Times, the author argues that Perdue should treat their chickens humanely. He also argues that if chickens that are not raised humanely they shouldn't consist of labels that indicate that they are and give false advertisement to the costumes.

                Nicholas Kristof stated in the article if humans were to grow at the same rate as modern chickens in the Perdue industry they would overcome the normal weight of a human. Poultry Science calculated that a human would weigh 670 pounds by the age of eight weeks. Furthermore, Kristof examines how the chickens don’t run or roost as birds normally do, instead they collapsed as soon as they get up not being able to carry the weight that they have in their breast. It’s a stinging ammonia that causes away to eat feathers and skin. In the article a farm boy stated that he has raised small flocks of chickens and geese, and had never seen anything like that.

Based on the Article the best quote that represents it, was when a farmer that worked for Perdue had an attack of conscience by, watching a video of Jim Perdue and seeing how they mistreat the animals and said, “My jaw just dropped, it couldn't get any further from the truth." "U.S.D.A.is the accomplice of Perdue in the fooling of consumers," says Leah Garces, American director of compassion in world farming, she indicates that consumers shouldn't get false advertisement.

Here we see the chickens in the farm with limited space Source

          
   Based on the novel ''The Jungle by Upton Siclair he stated that in the 1900s rats were scattered around factories in the night eating the food that was left outside. People threw their excrement outside due to the fact that they didn't have a specific location to throw them. Causing health conditions to the people that came in contact with the unsanitary materials. After reading the novel Theodore Roosevelt the president passed the Federal Meat Inspection Act of 1906 that prevented adulterated or misbrand meat from being sold as food. It also ensure Americans life by providing sanitary food.

On the article Abusing Chickens We Eat by Nicholas Kristof I conclude that the article opened up my eyes to what actually happens behind the scenes of raising a chicken. By reading this article I learned that chickens are not always treated humanely and companies give false advertisement to the consumers. I also believe that chickens should have an open space so they can move freely and the barns should be clean. As well as providing sunlight to the chickens in other words chickens should be treated humanely.  

In the picture we see children playing with dead animals in the unsanitary streets
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