A study described in Mother Jones tells that 80% of chicken farmers do not ever sanitize the crates used to haul the animals from the farms they were raised on to the slaughterhouse. With 8 billion chickens a year raised for meat in the U.S. alone, that's a lot of fecal matter that is covering our roadways, the environment, and the chickens themselves.
Link: http://motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2012/01/poultry-industrys-latest-dirty-secret
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