Hold on a minute, so you're telling us that broilers are being raised in an inhumane way. Ok, it typically takes an averageof 6 weeks(I think that's right) to raise a broiler to size. The birds are housed in a huge heated building, with lots of room to roam, not that they're going to move much anyway, fed well, watered, and kept healthy, because if that farmer loses chicks, they lose money. Ok, so we backyarders raise our babies in a heated brooder, good food, clean water,,,then put them in cozy little houses when they are fully feathered. sounds kind of the same to me.
And as for the biosecurity, there are some very bad poultry diseases that can wipe out a flock very quickly if that disease gets into it.
As for the illegal immigrants, I don't see any folks gettin' off welfare to go clean chicken poop, or work in the processing factories. Why should they, they make a better living on welfare than they would working in the poultry industry.
We demonize these farmers, but they are feeding the world.
Now egg laying barns, that's a different story, I agree that could be done differently. But there again, they are feeding the world, and agricultural land is getting more and more expensive every day, and harder for young farmers to get into farming, even if they did want to raise chickens they way we would like them to. Plus as a poultry farmer said about the smell,,,,,smells like money to him.
I like to eat chicken, and I won't demonize poultry farmers 'cuz I like a chicken mcnugget every once in a while.
Now, I'll get off MY soapbox.
