USDA plan to speed up poultry-processing lines could increase risk of bird abuse
Story Date: 10/30/2013

Source: Kimberly Kindy, WASHINGTON POST, 10/29/13

 
Nearly 1 million chickens and turkeys are unintentionally boiled alive each year in U.S. slaughterhouses, often because fast-moving lines fail to kill the birds before they are dropped into scalding water, Agriculture Department records show

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