Summary:
I love reading the Chicken Farmers of Canada blog – largely because it really highlights the ways that agribusiness twists information by leaving vital pieces out.
Take the latest post, “A Visit to the Farm” for instance.
This post purports to be all about the author’s visit to a chicken farm. While she raves about how “clean” the barns are and how “the chickens looked pretty content to me” there is no actual evidence of this included in the post. What she does include is a picture of a field with a big hay roll.
Where's the chicken?
If the barns are so nice and the chickens are so content and healthy, why not include a picture? What does hay have to do with chicken at all?
That post was sad, yet hilarious. It’s as if a bunch of these folks actually got together and planned out what to say in this blog post.
Perhaps this photo of a small number of extremely fat-looking chickens from Marty’s post is what she meant by “clean” and “pretty content”:
http://www.chickenfeeds.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/picture-31.png
Or perhaps this cartoon from a post titled “Best Chicken Joke Contest”:
http://www.chickenfeeds.ca/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/picture-25-172×300.png
Or was it, after all, the cleaned, butchered flesh of the slaughtered chickens that she meant by “pretty content”?
“I’ve never seen anything in a barn that made me feel uncomfortable.”
Glad she made this important statement. Makes me wonder if there was a gun to her head.