Colman McCarthy, a former Washington Post columnist and director of the Center for Teaching Peace in Washington, D.C., recently wrote an interesting article for the National Catholic Reporter on the poultry industry in the USA and its attempts to influence the US Congress’s agenda.
Lewes, UK, 2011
Mr McCarthy starts his article by commenting on the work of the Congressional Chicken Caucus, composed of ‘about a dozen members, mostly Republicans from Southern states who are obedient to the lobbying and earmarking wishes of the National Chicken Council, the United Egg Producers, the American Egg Board, and corporate giants like Perdue and Tyson long tenured in the industrial farming of chickens’.
He then describes the legislative framework and general conditions in which poultry farming is conducted in the US, and the industry’s attempts to make a bad situation even worse.
Finally, he casts a little light of hope on a rather gloomy landscape for both animal and human welfare.
You can read the full article on the National Catholic Reporter website.
