Disease-ravaged corpses, birds so genetically modified they can’t stand up and bloody feces everywhere: Undercover footage shows the squalid conditions inside one of America’s biggest chicken farms

Chicken Processing - Photo by Lance Cheung

The gruesome footage shows close-ups of the dying, abandoned birds – some discolored dark red, purple and green and others a bloody mess of rotting flesh and feathers.

‘About a year and a half ago we started getting gangrenous dermatitis, Hedrick explains to Garces – just one of the many problems facing chickens and their farmers.

‘It’s almost like the bird is eaten from the inside out, like its rotten from the inside out… alive,’ he says.

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