I went to a Costco once. Buying 40 rolls of paper towels and 5-gallon jars of pickles was not for me. You may have heard this week about how badly chickens are treated at their poultry plants in order to sell their customers the famous Costco $4.99 rotisserie chicken. Mercy for Animals snuck someone in undercover to work there. The horrid conditions they documented included, chickens struggling to walk under their own unnatural weight. Bodies burned bare from ammonia-laden litter. Dead days-old chicks. Piles of rotting birds. Living on their own feces, with no fresh air and no natural light. When you have to pump out 100 million of these a year, you tend to cut corners. But hey, what’s a little torture if you can get a really cheap chicken dinner. Just don’t read any of the news stories about it and you’ll be fine.
