An investigation into the spread of dangerous pathogens in our meat — particularly poultry — and the challenges facing the food-safety system in stopping the threat. (Aired 2015)
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In FRONTLINE’s “The Trouble with Chicken,†correspondent David E. Hoffman investigates how and why the standards and laws around Salmonella have failed to keep up with the increasing danger posed by some strains of the bacteria.The film looks closely at one of the largest Salmonella poultry outbreaks on record, when chicken from Foster Farms sickened more than 600 people over 16 months. Delving into the complex world of food safety, the investigation reveals a seeming contradiction: even though hundreds of people were falling ill, Foster Farms was still meeting the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) standards for Salmonella contamination.
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Chickens aren't the problem, human ignorance is.if you cook your food properly, no issues. additionally, if you farm your chickens properly, you create a situation that is beneficial to the environment, not detrimental.
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I absolutely without a doubt now know which brand of chicken I will Never purchase 🔠Thank You FRONTLINE â¤
Telling lies, they eat dead bodies. And yet, they go out to teach others.
They are deceived, and they deceive their companions. O Nanak, such are the leaders of men. ॥1॥
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You seize a living creature, and then bring it home and kill its body; you have killed only the clay. The light of the soul passes into another form. So tell me, what have you killed? ||2||
ਕਿਆ ਉਜੂ ਪਾਕ੠ਕੀਆ ਮà©à¨¹à© ਧੋਇਆ ਕਿਆ ਮਸੀਤਿ ਸਿਰ੠ਲਾਇਆ ॥ ਜਉ ਦਿਲ ਮਹਿ ਕਪਟ੠ਨਿਵਾਜ ਗà©à¨œà¨¾à¨°à¨¹à© ਕਿਆ ਹਜ ਕਾਬੈ ਜਾਇਆ ॥੩॥
And what good are your purifications? Why do you bother to wash your face? And why do you bother to bow your head in the mosque? Your heart is full of hypocrisy; what good are your prayers or your pilgrimage to Mecca? ||3||
ਤੂੰ ਨਾਪਾਕ੠ਪਾਕ੠ਨਹੀ ਸੂà¨à¨¿à¨† ਤਿਸ ਕਾ ਮਰਮ੠ਨ ਜਾਨਿਆ ॥ ਕਹਿ ਕਬੀਰ à¨à¨¿à¨¸à¨¤à¨¿ ਤੇ ਚੂਕਾ ਦੋਜਕ ਸਿਉ ਮਨ੠ਮਾਨਿਆ ॥੪॥੪॥
You are impure; you do not understand the Pure Lord. You do not know His Mystery. Says Kabeer, you have missed out on paradise; your mind is set on hell. ||4||4||
— Guru Granth Sahib on meat
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If you eat raw chicken and get sick, that's on you. If you have sex with a chicken and get sick, that's also your fault.
this is why we raise and butcher our own chickens!
We want to buy fresh meat from small backyard farmers not this way
lets all become a vegan😂😂😂😂😂
We need to go back to small family farms, the problem comes in when you have hundreds of thousands of chickens in one building, then they are processed by machines and dunked in the same huge vat of slimy water !!!
Family size production farms don’t have this problem but big business and government has made it impossible for small farms to exist !!!
Raise your own !!
One more reason to stop eating meat. I used to eat a lot of meat, but now I’ve been vegan for over 5 years. It was one of the best decisions of my life. This industry is incredibly unethical, we should all boycott it.
PBS is the best we all need support public broadcasting😊
Meat eaters demans deserve✅💯ðŸ‘
No wonder Europe won't buy our meat products
I got sick while in Colorado. With an infection in my throat that I have never felt any symptoms similar to. I had severe pain in my throat. I was concerned. But I knew it wasn't the usual bacteria or virus infection. Because I had never experienced those symptoms. im glad to be back home.
Stop eating dead diseased animals.
So glad my children & I are lifelong vegetarians 🙂
These judges are dumb. It's the same thing as a murderer now they get the death sentence. They are killing thousands of our young Americans. Dam liberal judge let one of their kids overdose
If the USDA can’t do anything about it then it’s up to the consumers to stop buying from these companies.
Hold up, I don't love chicken, but this lady with didn't cook it long/therough enough.
I worked in a turkey plant a couple of times for short bursts. I stayed sick. Sick all the time.
Common sense tells you meat eating is a dirty thing to do……..it's. Never safe.
pretty much sums up living in the US.
Look if your getting salmonella from chicken it's because it's cooked improperly. You must cook chicken all the way through. It's not beef you cannot have it medium rare. If it doesn't have a clear liquid coming out of it after cooking it isn't cooked all day he way. Rince your chicken too if you suspect it. Lastly if it smells bad when you open the package throw it out it's bad. Never leave your uncooked chicken in the fridge more that a couple of days either. Freeze it if you don't plan on cooking it soon after purchase. Salmonella can manifest in the fridge effecting other foods.
Y'all are going to be facing RICO charges for paying Kid Rock to take me out for the Illuminati Freemason's Epstein Network and you're going to give back what you stole from me too
Cook the hell out of them and they won't give you hell…how simple is that?
Hang on, it's going to be a bumpy ride. Eat more vegetables.
if i was boss of earth, id say all chicken needs to be frozen or dehydrated somehow
Suprize gmo corn and soya beans resistant to round up was made from salmonella bacterium. What do you feed your livestock??? Keep spraying keep dieing
I was tortured for 9 months in 2001 by salmonella that eventually turned into antibiotic resistant salmonella blood poisoning when I was 11 years old. It was awful. Fevers up to 107 degrees, vomiting, not being able to eat, I lost 30ish lbs and was down to 60lbs, diarrhea, night sweats, extreme exhaustion. My body was changed forever because of this disease. I’m lucky to be alive.
Never had it eat chicken almost everyday. Stop with the scare tactics.
One sick nation.. I never heard about these issues in Europe. And US want to sell food to Europe. Are you f*cking idiots insane?
So wtf are algorithms for because we know that they have already run every disease thru them and thus saying that it's impossible or at least analytically not capable of lessening the amount of contamination biological or other in meats etc is highly illogical because it's the human variable that's the only "variable" that cannot ever be adjusted for because immune systems are each a universe of difference not that the antibiotics tbh are less effective ðŸ’ðŸ¼â€â™‚ï¸
Respect to the VP of Cargill to accept the interview and take responsibility
Now, in 2025, we have the tRump regime shutting down government agencies that can test for these problems. Ain't America great?
I LOVE these documentaries !!! Sadly, they are now majorly influenced by large corporations instead of the TRUTH. We'll NEVER get the kind of honest reporting we received up to the early 2000's. **This one is a rare exception
Ofc they modified the salmanela . So you have to spend money at the doctor and big pharma
We have chickens and they are the best girls 😂