Somebody turned the fans off on 300,000 chickens to suffocate them

Have you folks seen this? This is an interesting read and a sad state of affairs for the meat chicken industry. I knew it was a tough industry, but these big corporations are making it nearly impossible for folks to thrive. It would be nice if they could band together and make the industry more stable for themselves.

From the story:

Nguyen’s farm wasn’t the only one hit that night. Three others also had their control systems sabotaged, killing the birds inside. Over the next week about 320,000 chickens died in attacks on farms throughout Clarendon County, in what appears to be the largest crime against industrial poultry farms in U.S. history. All the birds were owned by Pilgrim’s, which pays Nguyen and other farmers to raise the animals.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/featu...ring-thousands-of-chickens-in-south-carolina-

Wow!

That is an interesting peak into where our food comes from and how the industry works.

Yes, I've read that. What a horrible thing. I know 'they ' don't care about the chicken loss just the $$$$ loss. But, 300,000 chickens suffered greatly till they died.

That is terrible. Hard to believe anyone would purposely kill out of jealousy. Knowing these thousands of animals are now wasted.

The work of a sociopath for sure.

Aside from the horrible death that those poor birds had, what really hits me with this article is the way the big company is running the chicken producing business. There really is no reason for the company to pay the farmers that way. The amount that they are paying out for the birds is the same if all the farmers got paid the same amount per chicken. Why create such severe competition, when these farmers really don't control any input for the birds? The company supplies the food, medicine and chicks; the farmers all have the same setup. It is just a lucky break to be the farmer with the highest feed conversion.

So sad that the farmers have to sign up for this "contract farming".

It seems like the dairy business has gone the same direction around here. All the dairy farmers are going into huge debt to big massive buildings to hold their cattle, feeding them there and never letting them out on pasture. The cows pass through a doorway to the milking parlor 3 times a day to be milked, to return to the building to eat. You hardly ever see herds of cattle out on pasture anymore.

I can see the need to make a point or some kind of protest to the way tyson and other producers handled him and handles the folks that are raising their birds, but killing the chickens is a terrible way to do it.

I hope we see a movement for better tasting, more humane chicken in this country. I don't think it should be legislated, but I hope this story makes a lot of news and get's folks to change their habits.

Here in Utah the legislature made it illegal to sell chicken meat without having a "proper facility". It used to be o,r is supposed to be ok to sell up to 500 a year from a home or farm. They also just this year made it illegal for any commercial store to buy eggs from an individual farmer. To sell eggs to stores you have to have the FDA approve you which puts most small operations out of business. There were a lot of folks getting on the free range brown egg train and the commercial egg producers did not like it.

Free country? Not anymore.

drumstick diva said:

Yes, I've read that. What a horrible thing. I know 'they ' don't care about the chicken loss just the $$$$ loss. But, 300,000 chickens suffered greatly till they died.

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