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  • Chickens love to eat chicken, I’ve seen it myself. Of course they will eat literally anything. Their main way of determining what is edible it just to try to eat it and if it works then they eat it and if not… well best to try a few more times just to be sure.

  • Chickens Starving, Resorting to Cannibalism at Government-Subsidized Poultry Company

    Complainants from the foundering company’s Iowa slaughterhouse began contacting PETA last month, reporting that thousands of birds were being left for days without food or water on trucks parked at the facility as the company struggled to slaughter them. PETA immediately alerted U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) leadership to each of these complaints, offering to connect them with the eyewitnesses so that they could investigate and end the birds’ illegal suffering—but the agency never responded.

    In response, PETA sent a letter this week to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsack calling on him to investigate the USDA’s failure to fulfill its duties and to stop throwing taxpayer money at bad actors like Pure Prairie Poultry.

    Incidentally, cannibalism is one powerful vector for disease mutation and spread.

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