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Pus-Filled Prison Poultry Causes Lawsuit
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Getting shanked in the shower is definitely a worry, but biting into pus-filled poultry? That's cruel and unusual punishment. Just ask the three Vermont men who are seeking $100,000 in damages from ConAgra Foods after reportedly purchasing bad chicken from the prison store at Lee Adjustment Facility in Beattyville, Kentucky. The sickening saga began three years ago when the trio, who were serving their sentences in Kentucky because of overcrowding in Vermont jails, apparently bit into a batch of Banquet chicken filled with pus. Brown-bagging the rank, three-year-old meat to court to serve as exhibit A, one litigant described the diarrhea and weight loss (as well as the harassment by other inmates) that he says resulted from ingesting the foul fowl.
Pusitively gross, right? Well, take heed, because food poisoning caused by putrid poultry isn't confined to prison food. Animals raised for food are intensively confined on disease-ridden factory farms. By the time they reach the slaughterhouse, many are suffering from pneumonia and other chronic illnesses, and some have cancerous lesions or pus-filled wounds all over their bodies. Wait—it gets worse! Pus-coated bird bits often go into a mixture called a "binder," which is used in chicken nuggets, patties, and "buffalo" wings.
And while eating contaminated meat is downright disgusting and dangerous, the real victims here are the chickens who are being knocked off to make these noxious nuggets. I say prisons should pardon chickens and all animals from their menus.
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Common sense tells me that if you consume meat from a sick animal, you will be affected by the meat, if not now, later.
Posted by: W. Perry | January 12, 2009 03:43 PM
Unfortunately the prisoners' case is pretty transparent... keeping the untested chicken in a brown bag for 3 years? How are they going to prove anything?
Posted by: Meech! | January 12, 2009 05:17 PM
Not at all surprising.
According to a Consumer Reports study 71% of American chickens are sufficiently contaminated with Campylobacter to cause illness. More than 5000 Americans become ill with Campylobacter poisoning every day.
Posted by: Mike Quinoa | January 12, 2009 05:21 PM
Eating the meat was their choice. Diarrhea and weight loss are the least of the health problems that result from eating meat.
Posted by: Pete | January 12, 2009 05:54 PM
W.P, and how did commonsense describe the process?
I wonder why the other two inmates weren't affected.
Posted by: rojo | January 13, 2009 06:48 AM
These people are in prison to be punished. Don't you think they deserved what they got?
Posted by: lol | January 16, 2009 07:13 PM