1751 Chicken Feather

A feather can tell a lot. At least that's what I learned in an article about our chickens. Seems we are feeding them an astonishing amount of drugs. And not just floroquinolone antibiotics, which are supposedly banned because they lead to superbugs. According to the tale of the feather, poultry producers are still using not only them, but lots of over the counter drugs as well.
But let's put the egghead before the chicken. Scientist Keeve Nachman analyzed samples of feather meal, which is a food supplement made from chicken feathers. I'm not sure if it’s a food supplement for humans or other chickens. In any event, Nachman demonstrated it can be analyzed to tell what it is the chicken ate before its feathers were rendered.

8 of the 12 samples, collected from the U.S. and China, showed the antibiotics. And get this---most samples also contained arsenic. Which is a supplement farmers feed chickens to make their flesh look a healthy pink.
Healthy. Right... Nothing like a little rat poison to fry up for Sunday dinner.
The samples also contained caffeine, used to keep the chickens awake and eating. Because, you know, chickens are normally so un-frenetic and picky about their food.
They also found Tylenol, Benadryl, and Prozac. All of which, apparently, are administered to lower stress levels. Dude, just cut back on the coffee. And while your at it, maybe not sticking your chicken in a factory farm rancid cubbyhole may reduce stress a little too.
So anyhow, if after your next KFC or Happy Joy Joy Teriyaki you feel a little tense, but somehow calm, and can spit on a rat and kill it, send a big thank you to the chicken farmers of America and China.
Because according to naked facts of the feathers, we all should feel plucked.
America, ya gotta love it.