Reply #63: I live in chicken and turkey house country.

[jdj]

The other day a girl in one of my classes said that those houses are one of the worst smells she has ever smelled.

Great.

And they CANNOT keep help, so it must be a horrible horrible job. I check the jobs listing daily for my county and those jobs turn over almost weekly. Since I live 2 miles from a Tyson plant, and about 5 miles from a Pilgrims Pride, I see the trucks ful of birds almost every single day. They are pitiful, sick, dirty, almost featherless, covered in urine and their skin always looks really red and inflamed.

And then they get to the plant and get tortured by the workers. PETA did a sting at a Tyson's where they filmed the workers ripping the birds apart and blowing them up with CO2.

The whole industry is horrifying, as well as the battery hen industry.