Most chicken sold in stores is contaminated, Consumer Reports says

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80. Since grocery store chicken is already contaminated, why require central slaughter facilities?

It's like bringing sick patients to one central hospital to pass the worst bugs to each other.

My family member raises pastured, organic chickens -- no antibiotics, no grain, just insects and grass -- and the state of Maine tells him he can't sell his chickens to grocery stores or restaurants unless he takes them to a central slaughtering facility. In this facility, they also slaughter non-organic chickens who've been given antibiotics.

What's the point of all the hard work he's put into raising his organic chickens when the health department wants to contaminate them with super-bug bacteria from other farms' chickens?

He insists on slaughtering his own, because he knows that none of his chickens have super-bugs. But his only option is to sell to friends and neighbors.