The chicken (Gallus gallus) is a type of domesticated fowl, believed to be descended from the wild Indian and south-east Asian Red Junglefowl.The chicken is one of the most common and wide-spread domestic animals. With a population of more than 24 billion in 2003, there are more chickens in the world than any other bird. Humans keep chickens primarily as a source of food, from both their meat and their eggs.

Not only have our cat and dog family members been poisoned, now the FDA admits thousands of hogs in at least five states and chickens at a Missouri farm ate the food that had been laced with an industrial chemical, opening potential avenues for the contaminant to enter the human food supply.

Industrial Farming Practices, Globalization,and Climate Change are endangering our food supply. This well researched article describes concerns consumers have about feed lot cattle production, chicken grow out barns, and the resultant increase in antivirals, antibiotics, and antimicrobial, and the increase in pathogens found in leafy produce.