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I can only hope this wakes people up to the unbelievably unsustainable way chickens are farmed in the US, even just a little bit. We saw a bit of that happen with cows after mad cow but nowhere near enough still, people will find ways to exploit animals in more and more inhumane ways to cut costs. I am not even a vegetarian, in fact I was a butcher for years (and my no longer being a butcher has nothing to do with personal ethics), but people need to understand that it is NOT POSSIBLE to treat animals the way we do in factory farming without horrifying consequences. You can look at it from a petri dish perspective or a spiritual one, either way the conclusion is the same and inescapable. We were feeding cows the blood and bones of slaughtered cows for decades and thought that was fine even after cows started dying of BSE, people only woke up when it jumped to people. Look up how these chickens are being treated, we aren't even vaccinating them because it is viewed as more expensive than just slaughtering all of them.