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Day 5
The Treatment of the #1 consumed food in America: Chicken
The most devastating and eye-opening topic that Foer writes about in this week’s reading is the treatment of chickens. This topic stood out most to me because I had inadequate previous knowledge of this issue. Foer writes that there are sheds that house over thirty thousand chickens in one single room. These sheds are forty-five feet wide and four hundred and ninety feet long. This results in a very limited space for the chickens; Foer reports that each bird gets less than eight-tenths of a square foot. The chickens are forced to grow fast on as little feed as possible. The muscles and fat tissues are engineered to grow significantly fast that the bones itself resulting
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