Since employees are not always allowed to leave the line to go to the bathroom, they sometimes go on the floor. Chickens that fall in the urine and excrement are routinely picked up and returned to the line. According to inspectors, at one Southern poultry plant the management would not stop the line after a pregnant woman vomited on it. Poultry plants also use chlorine to wash chickens. The heavy fumes from the solutions caused workers' eyes to water, skin to peel from their hands, and the development of lung problems, chronic headaches and sore throats.
Chickens bleed, hurt and cry just like other creatures.
The chickens today have a lot of health problems because they were forced to grow too fast. You'll never get anyone to admit it, but the reason they have leg problems is because their muscular system is growing much faster than their skeletons, so they can't support their own weight. Everyone in the industry knows this for a fact, but no one talks about it. A bill has been introduced in Congress to address this, H.R. 264, the Humane Methods of Poultry Slaughter Act of 1995. The only sensible choice is to stop eating chicken.