Notes

Oscar-nominated documentary, featuring narration from Eric Schlosser and Michael Pollan, which spent three years in the making, takes aim at the ramifications of agribusiness. It suggests how E. coli, manufactured in the cow’s stomach, is a result of feeding cattle on grain rather than pasture. It depicts the extent of maltreatment at a conventional chicken farm stuck in its ways because of its obligations to over-produce. It looks at how the profits of major food labels and regulators are based on the production of cheap, contaminated meat processed by exploited undocumented immigrants.

(1) Chicken companies purchase day-old female breeder chicks, called "Pullets". At 20 weeks old they join fellow breeder hens and roosters on the farm to produce fertilized for eggs (not table eggs)

(2)Eggs are collected and delivered to hatcheries where they are incubated and hatched into chickens raised for meat.

(3)The chicks are moved to local family farms where they live in barns equipped with advanced ventilation and heating systems and are able to freely roam and eat and drink in comfort, under the care of a veterinarian.

(4)Once market weight (1.8-3.1 kg). chickens are collected and transported from the farm to a processing plant. At the plant, they are processed quickly and humanely and then thoroughly washed and cleaned, chilled, packaged, and inspected by USDA before departing for market

(5)Distribution partners keep chicken chilled during transit from processing plant to market, to make sure the meat you purchase arrives safely at local grocers. markets and restaurants across the nation.

(6)Chicken is the affordable cornerstone to a nutritious meal Families can feel confident that they are consuming a safe and quality product and supporting their farmers in a great American industry