Poultry plant tour

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The trouble is that the 'protein product' companies have designed their operations to get their 'product' out the door as quickly and cheaply as possible. The means don't matter. So animals are raised in filthy, unbearable conditions and stuffed with antibiotics because they're sitting ducks for disease due to overcrowding, and mutilated because their conditions of living make them crazy. It doesn't matter to the corporation. These companies have enormous political clout and antibiotic use in food animals won't be banned anytime soon.

The only path to change is for we the consumers, who along with the animals suffer so that Agribusiness can profit, to vote with our wallets. And to demand better from our politicians. Our elected 'leaders' will only vote for a healthier food supply if we make it clear that they have more to gain from doing so than they have to lose. Conversely, that they have more to lose from failing to act.

We did it with tobacco; we can do it again. The stakes are even higher now.