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January 19, 2011

This is your chicken commercial. This is your chicken reality.

Eat Chicken in America? Good chance it’s from Tyson.

Like an anti-Michael Pollan commercial, cute kids with funny ways of saying words say they don’t like real food…but thanks mama! we do love chicken nuggets! Way to teach America’s parents n’children, Tyson!

I hate everything!

(Click here for some reality via Naked Chef Jamie Oliver).

Yummy!

Fun!

We’re the animals!

One of very few videos that shows anything about an actual Tyson factory farm…watch the full thing for the notes on the video:

Not sure how he sleeps at night in his McMansion:

Okay, enough reality—let’s eat some chicken! Because, after all, if it looks and tastes good, we don’t want to know more:

Except for a few brave heroes among us:

If you eat chicken, try to watch these two. If you can’t watch ’em, maybe make sure you know where your chicken is coming from—always ask:

Tyson spends money sponsoring advertorial and commercials, not caring for its product (sentient beings)

Chickens never see the light of day. They’re packed in, and live miserable lives. Part one of four:

More fun:

You may never go vegan. But if you continue to eat animals, know that a happy chicken is a healthier chicken…and you are what you eat.

Finally, a beautiful sort of contemplation. Tyson, the chicken. A real live sentient being:

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