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The USDA's latest chicken ruling is turning heads. Here's why
Story Date: 8/24/2020
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Source: Ralph Schwartz, MASHED, 8/20/20
It is now more likely that the chicken on your dinner plate had a contagious form of cancer. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has decided that poultry processors can stop throwing away chickens found with avian leukosis, a disease caused by a virus that spreads easily among chickens on poultry farms (via Bloomberg). Although processors will still be required to cut out any tumors they find, they might not even see those tumors to begin with. The USDA's ruling also eliminates a requirement to check the first 300 birds in every flock for signs of avian leukosis.
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