The ‘Filthy Chicken Rule’… USDA To Allow Your Factory Farmed Chicken To Be Full Of Feces!

August 2nd, 2014

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

If you buy your chicken from the supermarket,
here are a few things about its life that might make you less eager to
eat it. As a chick, your chicken’s beak was cut off so that it wouldn’t
attack other chickens in the overcrowded cage in which it was raised. Monica Potts

Your chicken was fed so much grain so quickly
– supplemented with antibiotics – that, by the time it was ready for
slaughter at the age of five weeks, its breasts were swollen and
disproportionately large, rendering it unable to walk.

Once your chicken
was slaughtered, it was tossed into a chlorinated bath or doused with
other industrial-grade chemicals so that your chicken would reach you
“clean”.

But “clean”, when it comes to meat, is a
relative standard. Most chickens spend the bulk of their short lives
covered or standing in feces (to say nothing of the conditions in which
cows, pigs or even turkeys are raised), and the way in which they are
dispatched in the modern era is so sordid that farm states are actually
passing laws to keep you from ever bearing witness to the slaughter.

Old Macdonald had a farm – once – but corporations interested in maximizing profits bought him out.

The one small hope for human health has been
that the US Department of Agriculture has inspectors to watch over those
processing plants and make sure we don’t eat sick chickens or chickens
covered in their own feces as they make their way through the processing
plant. That is, it’s been the one hope until now.

The USDA is moving toward final approval of a
rule that would replace most government inspectors with untrained
company employees, and to allow companies to slaughter chickens at a
much faster rate.

(The rule is called the “Modernization of Poultry
Slaughter Inspection”, but advocates like the Center for Food Safety and Food and Water Watch are calling it the “Filthy Chicken Rule”.) It could be approved as soon as this week.

This “modernization” of inspections through
privatization is likely to cause more problems than already occur
because the company employees will be disinclined to cost their bosses
money by slowing down, stopping production or removing chickens when
there’s a problem. “It’s really letting the fox guard the chicken coop”,
says Tony Corbo of Food and Water Watch.

There are already plenty of problems. The
rule comes in the midst of a years-long increase in the number of
food-born illnesses, driven in part by a shortage of government
inspectors.

As the International Business Times reported:

An increase in the
incidence of salmonella in the U.S. could have a real impact on
consumers, as the pathogen already represents a major threat to public
health.

Salmonella ‘is estimated to cause 1.2 million illnesses in the
United States, with about 23,000 hospitalizations and 450 deaths’ each
year, according to a recent report by the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention.

A study of more than 300 raw chicken breasts released by
Consumer Reports earlier this year found that 10.8 percent harbored
salmonella, while 65.2 percent tested positive for E. coli.

Overall,
about 97 percent of the breasts tested contained harmful bacteria,
according to the study.

Salmonella isn’t even one of the diseases
the USDA can currently regulate by stopping production if diseased or
feces-covered birds make it into the production line.

It’s hardly better elsewhere: the Guardian just released the results of a major investigation into
chicken factory farming in the UK, and found that poor hygiene and
spotty adherence to the rules makes 280,000 people sick there each year.

Advocates had been working to make
the American regulatory system more comprehensive, supporting bills like
one introduced by Congresswomen Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) and Louise
Slaughter (D-NY) that would have allowed USDA inspectors to make sure
that birds infected with salmonella didn’t make it into our kitchens.

Instead, the Obama administration is making sure we’re getting a less
powerful USDA altogether.

Of course, chicken processors are hardly the
only offenders. Almost every kind of animal slaughtered in the United
States is pumped full of drugs and raised in unsustainably large factory
farms. It’s incredibly bad for the environment, not to mention our stomachs.

Processing companies are uniquely powerful in the poultry industry. They’ve devised a system that
sucks money from farmers, making them poorer every year, and sells
increasingly cheap and unhealthy meat to consumers.

With the new
rule getting rid of government inspectors, companies stand to earn even
more profits. (Estimates on the new rule place savings for those companies at about $256m per year.)

It’s particularly disappointing seeing this
rule from the Obama administration, which many food-safety advocates had
hoped would improve the quality of the food we eat, rather than degrade
it.

“They’ve gone out of their way to cater to the industry on this,”
Corbo says. “This is a gift to the poultry industry.”

Unfortunately, the cost of that “gift” could be human health.

Monica Potts – July 29, 2014 – posted at SurvivalBackPack