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So salmonella only occurs on factory farms? That’s a nonsense to suggest that. Backyard chickens seem to transmit salmonella at higher rates than factory chicke

• petre 8y ago
  No, but antibiotic resistant Salmonella occurs mostly where chickens are given antibiotics mixed in their daily meals. That's standard pratcice in farms. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/11/02/561584723/big-chicken-connects-poultry-farming-to-antibiotic-resistant-bacteria?t=1556864961970 https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/11/02/561584723/bi...
• TheRealPomax 8y ago
  I didn't say factory farms, but that seems very difficult for some people to understand. I said insanely messed up industrial chicken industry. The kind where you just leave your dead chickens to rot next to your live chickens, where you don't give a shit about disease and contaminants "because we'll clean the eggs later", where you don't maintain a minimal sanitary level because "that just costs money", etc. You can run a chicken battery with perfectly healthy chickens, plenty of light, hen retirement once their production drops below profitable instead of making them "lay until they drop dead", etc.