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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Political animals (with Leah Garcés)

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Chicken Babysitter

In 1992, Craig wanted to stay on his land. He took out a quarter of a million dollars in 1992 to build two houses. Purdue drops off the chickens and they say, well, the only way to pay off this loan is if you keep raising chickens for us. So that goes great at first when the houses are new and clean. But after a while, it's a factory farm. The chickens start to get sick. When they get sick, he gets paid less because he only gets paid for the number of chickens he can bring to the slaughter weight. And so if a lot of them get sick,. he pays the price, not the company, right?

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