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Not much if you buy them from a store. As you say, they must be rinsed with a USDA approved cleanser and it may infiltrate the eggs.
One can buy chicks from a hatchery that have not been immunized, its your choice.
ok but do you know if a chicken has had immunizations is it considered non-organic? and if so...how do the producers do it...assuming they would have a large quantity of birds to supply a grocery store chain?
A large producer of organic chicken who supplies store chains are probably operating on the government's idea of organic, which is sometimes not so organic. I would assume they would just not vaccinate their chicks?
All this discussion is just one more good reason for a person to raise and eat their own chickens. Then you know just what goes in the end product, if they've been processed in a clean manner and just how healthy they lived their lives.