One would say they usually eaten chicken at least once or twice a week or even know of multiple restaurants or fast food places that serve chicken on a daily basis. Well, in today's society, 50 billion chickens are slaughtered worldwide for food. The U.S contributes to 5.5% of that total. 9 billion male and female “broiler” (baby) chickens are raised and killed for food each year just in the United States (UPC 1). When an individual is biting into KFC chicken or even eating Tyson chicken nuggets, they do not truly understand what the chickens have been through in order for companies to get their product into customer's hands. In an effort to stop the mistreatment of chickens in the food industry, the government should set specific regulations on their physical and …show more content…
Once they come out of the tanks, their bones are disfigured and broken and many of them lose body parts due to their aggressive struggling (2Bulter 2). Another unpleasant physical treatment involves the shackles in the slaughterhouses. At a slaughterhouse in Tennessee, an employee admitted that when chickens are too big are are not hung properly from their legs, instead they are hung by their necks (2PETA 1). Also, the conveyor belts in slaughterhouses are considered an unpleasant physical treatment. PETA’s investigator found that at the end of the conveyor belt in a Georgia slaughterhouse, which transports the birds to be hung, snagged many chickens heads and legs that ended up killing the birds (3PETA 1). Some of the inhumane abusive physical punishments include beating and stabbing the chickens, breaking the chickens bones, and blowing them up. The PETA investigator documented that an employee of the Tennessee slaughterhouse admitted that “...he broke a chicken's back by beating the bird against a rail, [and] a back-up killer stabbed birds in the neck area with knives...” (4PETA 1). This is an