The free enterprise system encompasses everything. The freedom to make a profit and improve one's lifestyle supersedes ethical considerations and even morality.
So despite the proliferation of salmonella bacteria in poultry processing, companies that "harvest" chickens, for example, feed the animals with their own egg shells and the organic refuse from the industry.
The chickens are artificially fertilized, electronically hatched and grown to a large size quickly. They are placed in a chicken coop with millions of cubicles that are large enough to hold one chicken each. Food belts pass before their little cubicles so the chickens may eat constantly. The chicken coops are even lit at night, so growing the chickens may proceed twenty-four hours a day.
There is no movement for the chickens throughout their life spans. As quickly as possible they are slaughtered and processed for sale throughout the US and the rest of the world. The actual process that plucks the feathers off the chickens and their being hanged on hooks and carried around a carousel causes the feces from the chickens to splatter around; this is where the salmonella bacteria spreads from one chicken to another. All the working surfaces in poultry processing plants contain the salmonella bacteria. Furthermore, most eggs produced by chickens in the US also contain the salmonella bacteria. Salmonella is responsible for hundreds of thousands of human deaths in the US annually.
The whole US free enterprise system utilizes this same toxic process. All industries, the political process, the economy, the military, and the educational system -- all operate like this.
Dec. 31, 2008