Agribusiness portrays chickens raised for food as “happy” and “content” in the squalor of their factory-farm environment. Exploiters insist that chickens who have never known anything else cannot “miss” fresh air, sunshine, and personal space. Is this true? In today’s podcast I examine this claim including whether farmers really “know” their animals. Tune in and find out how chickens experience their dark world of incarceration, and why they cannot adapt to it.
