Chicken is Safe. Or it will be.
There’s conflicting news about America’s poultry today.
Max at the snark-ridden bad things blog points to this article in the St. Louis Dispatch, which conveys U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Mike Johanns’s message: The poultry supply is safe. That’s a relief.
But someone should tell the poultry producers of this country that Johanns cleared their birds, since they’re about to start testing for avian bird flu in their flocks, according to the Tri-City Herald. Needless to say, they’re only concerned about this in-the-news disease. Don’t expect any other reforms on chicken farms.
I don’t trust the companies to let us know when they find diseased birds—probably they’ll just quietly deal with the problem—but at least they’re being proactive.
