Meat eating in the United States is at an all-time high. Americans have shifted from eating beef to poultry. In the past 30 years, beef intake has fallen, while chicken intake has doubled. Cost, convenience, and health concerns are the top reasons Americans have abandoned beef. This news is not very good for the most abused and murdered animal on earth, the chicken, which happens to be a scientifically engineered creature that’s the unhealthiest one in the food chain. At slaughterhouses, workers turn the birds upside down to shackle them by their legs to a conveyor. The chickens flap and squawk in terror, and the shackling can leave them with broken legs and dislocated hips. They are dragged through electrified water, stunning them before their throats are slit. But the spasming birds sometimes miss the bath and their throats are cut while they are conscious. Most people don’t realize they are participating in animal abuse when they eat chicken but that doesn’t make the fact false. Here’s a tip, if you secretly get a bit of a thrill out of abusing animals, eating pollo is the way to go.
