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Yesterday, while on a drive, I got behind a truck and took this picture. (During a roughly half-hour period on the road, I came across three more such trucks.) I could smell the truck from so close, and the smell was not good. These chickens were dirty and lame, unable to stand up even if they had the room to do so. Some were throwing their legs around, attempting to stand. I wondered what it must be like for them to see the outside world for the first time in their lives. Of course, there is also the heat and the wind (blowing feathers from the truck as it drove), but the outdoors, even if from behind bars, may have excited them a bit. Who knows what they would find in this whole new world that they had not known even an hour earlier? Maybe their lives would change for the better. Well, that did not pan out. As I kept driving straight, the truck turned right...into a processing plant with a sign boasting "Premium Fresh Young Chicken". Well, that was their glimpse of the world...at least for those few closest to the outside bars of the cages. (All the others in the interior of the cages could see was other chickens.)

If you would like to know the end of the story (skipping some of the more gory details), here it is, at the Tyson product link below:

http://www.tyson.com/products/premium-fresh-young-chicken

Mind you, they got an average one-star rating, with one review saying, "I purchased 3 chickens to fry for my familys Sunday dinner for what they cost they were nasty. I spent over an hour just cleaning them of the pin feathers that was left on them...the meat was also bruised. For what they cost it seems you could clean them better."

Nothing against the chickens, of course. They can't help being "nasty" and "bruised".
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